PREVIEW: Cougars Meet Bearcats

CINCINNATI, Ohio – The Houston baseball team will meet Cincinnati in the fourth different conference the two have been members of when the Cougars play the Bearcats Friday-Sunday in Big 12 Conference play in Ohio.

HOUSTON (19-18, 5-13 Big 12) at Cincinnati (21-17, 7-8 Big 12)
Date \| Time	Friday, April 19 at 4 p.m. CT Saturday, April 20 at 1 p.m. CT Sunday, April 21 at 11 a.m. CT
Opponents	Cincinnati (21-17, 7-8 Big 12)
Location	Cincinnati, Ohio
Watch	Big 12 Now on ESPN+ \| Friday, Saturday, Sunday
Listen	The Varsity Network \| Jeremy Branham
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Game Notes	Houston \| Cincinnati
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THE SERIES

Houston last won a conference series at Cincinnati in 2016.
The Big 12 is the fourth conference the Cougars and Bearcats have played in at the same time. The two were in the Missouri Valley from 1957-59, then in Conference USA from 1996-04 and then the American Athletic Conference from 2014-23.
Neither school has won back-to-back three-game series sets since Houston did so in 2014-17 (four-straight years).
Houston is 18-12 against Cincinnati during the Todd Whitting era.
This is the third time zone the Cougars have played in this season (CT in Texas, MT at BYU).
Houston hit a walk-off 10th inning home run to tie the series in 2023.

QUICK HITTERS

The Cougars have scored 20+ runs in two games this year after beating Southern 25-0 on Wednesday. It marks the first time Houston has scored 20+ in multiple games in the same season.
Houston's 27 runs against Prairie View were the most since 1993 when the Cougars scored 27 against Illinois State and tied for the second-most runs scored in a game in program history.
Houston's 10-0 run-rule victory in eight innings was its first non-conference run-rule win since March 27, 2019 at Stephen F. Austin (W, 16-1 [7 inn.]).
Freshman Conner Bennett made his second-career start and delivered his first extra-base hit and first RBI as a collegian on the first pitch he saw in the second inning against Houston Christian. Bennett then hit a pinch-hit grand slam against Southern for his first-career home run. Bennett ended the game a triple shy of the cylce with six RBI.
Third baseman Anthony Tulimero hit home runs in three straight games (at Sam Houston, vs Texas twice).
Right-handed pitcher Owen Woodward twirled 4.1 perfect innings with a career-high 10 strikeouts against Texas on Friday before giving up his first hit. The righty then struck out the next batter grabbing his arm, exiting the game after delivering a strike the next at bat.
The Cougars have scored five or more runs in nine straight games and have recorded 10+ hits in nine of the last 10 games.
Houston has hit multiple home runs in eight of the last nine games.
Second baseman Harold Coll hit multiple home runs in Lubbock and is on a team-leading six-game hitting streak after notching his third three-hit game of the season.
The Cougars streak of hitting multiple home runs in seven consecutive games ended on Tuesday against Houston Christian.
Houston's 10-game stretch not allowing a home run was snapped on Friday night at Texas Tech. The 10-game stretch is the second-longest in program history in the metal bat era.
The Cougars snapped Lamar's Division I-leading 13-game winning streak with a 6-4 win on Tuesday. The Cardinals went on to sweep then #20 Oklahoma in Norman, Okla., over the weekend.
The Cougars' conference opening sweep of Baylor was just the fourth conference opening series sweep by a Todd Whitting team (2024, 2018, 2013, 2011).

LAST TIME OUT

Houston utilized seven eighth inning walks and a bases clearing three-run double to score six runs against Houston Christian to walk-off run-rule the Huskies.
The Cougars scored 25 runs with Bennett hitting a grand slam against Southern on Wednesday.

SERIES HISTORY
Houston record vs Cincinnati 43-18
Last meeting W, 7-6, 5/20/23, Home
Streak Houston, W2

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