Texas Southern Tigers will travel to College Station for NCAA Tournament

HOUSTON, Texas -- The Texas Southern University Tigers baseball team learned their next opponent on Monday. The Tigers will travel to College Station to take on Regional host Texas A&M in the preliminary round of the 2015 NCAA Baseball Tournament.

Matchup Preview
This is the second time Texas Southern (31-17) has faced Texas A&M in the postseason. The two teams met in 2004 and Texas A&M leads the postseason series 1-0. TSU comes into the matchup having won six of their last seven games.

Tournament MVP Zach Welz has been a key to the Tigers success this postseason. He led all batters in the SWAC tournament with nine hits and 14 total bases. His .429 batting average was the best of all hitters with over 15 at bats.

TSU's All-Tournament pitchers Ryan Rios, Frank Cruz IV, and Felix Gomez have all earned a significant number of starts this season, while also seeing time on the mound in relief.

Texas A&M (45-11) enters the tournament after falling to #9 Vanderbilt in the SEC tournament semifinals.

They boast a .312 team batting average with a .307 team ERA. Their top hitter coming into the tournament is Mitchell Nau. He has started every game for the Aggies and leads with a team-high .376 batting average including 73 hits, 14 doubles, and four home runs. Grayson Long has started all 15 of his appearances on the mound and leads with a team-best 2.62 ERA.

Tigers in the NCAA Tournament
This is the Tigers first trip to the dance since 2008, and third time in program history. They advanced to the 2004 NCAA Tournament after winning their first SWAC title. Playing out of the Baton Rouge Regional, the Tigers faced Rice University and upset the Owls 4-3. They went on to lose to eventual Super Regional finalist Texas A&M for their first loss. Rice later eliminated Texas Southern from the tournament in the rematch between the two teams.

Texas Southern made it back to the NCAA Tournament in 2008 and faced Regional host LSU. They fell to LSU and then dropped game two to New Orleans.

The Tigers hold a 1-4 all-time tournament record and are playing in their first regional hosted in the state of Texas.

NCAA College Station Regional Ticket Information
Any available Reserved All-Session tickets will go on sale Monday, May 25 at 12:00 pm online and by phone. Remaining reserved inventory will be extremely limited.

Orders for Lawn/Standing Room Only (SRO) All-Session Regional tickets are being accepted at this time on the 12th Man Foundation Online Ticket Center. Lawn/SRO All-Session tickets are $40 Adult and $20 Youth/Student (plus a $4 per ticket fee). The All-Session ticket includes all possible sessions.

Individual game tickets for the RegioEnal will go on sale Friday, May 29. Sales times and specific information will be released once the game times are announced. Game times will be dictated by television and released at the earliest possible moment.E

COURTESY TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY SPORTS INFORMATION