The No. 15 West Virginia Mountaineers needed to put forth their best performance in a weekend series this year as they traveled to face No. 7 Kansas in a late-season road trip. With hopes of a trip to Omaha for the College World Series still alive, the trip to Lawrence would have Big 12 Championship and NCAA regional seed implications. In the end, WVU did everything they needed to, and then some more.
On Sunday, the Mountaineers put forth a dominant performance in the final game of the series, run-ruling the seventh-ranked Jayhawks 13-2 to put the cherry on top of the weekend, following a 4-1 win on Friday and a 5-2 win on Saturday. The clean sweep moves the Mountaineers right back into the middle of Big 12 title contention.
West Virginia now 1-game behind Big 12 lead with one weekend remaining in the regular season
The Mountaineers moved to 35-12 overall and 19-8 in league play with the trio of victories, while Kansas is now 37-15 overall and 20-7 in Big 12 action. That puts WVU just one game behind a share of the league title, and two games away from capturing the title outright. If next weekend plays out in the right way for the Mountaineers, it will be the second consecutive Big 12 Championship.
With this win over Kansas, #WVU sweeps the series and sits just 1 game back of the KU in the Big 12 w/ 3 games left.
— James (@mountaineerjdub) May 10, 2026
WVU sweeps the Sunflower State w/ a series sweep of K-ST last week & KU this week.
K-ST: 7-0, 9-1, 13-6
KU: 4-1., 5-2, 13-2
2 Sundays in a row WVU scores 13.
And if the Mountaineers manage to just capture a share of the regular season league title, it will be a massive boost for them entering the Big 12 Tournament.
That's because the Mountaineers enter with the tiebreaker over the Jayhawks, so if they split the regular season title, West Virginia will earn the No. 1 seed in the tournament, putting them in prime position to make a run for the league title.
Key note: If #WVU and KU finish with a share of the Big 12 championship, WVU will enter the Big 12 tournament as the No. 1 seed since they swept KU.
— James (@mountaineerjdub) May 10, 2026
Add us as a preferred source on Google