PREVIEW: Houston Preps for #1 Texas A&M

COLLEGE STATION, Texas – The Houston baseball team will travel north to face the #1 Texas A&M Aggies on Tuesday at 6 p.m. seeking its first win against the nation's best team since a 2006 win over #1 Rice. The Cougars have not faced a top-ranked team in the country since 2020.

HOUSTON (20-20) at Texas A&M (35-5)
Date \| Time	Tuesday, April 23 at 6 p.m.
Opponents	Texas A&M (35-5)
Location	College Station, Texas
Watch	SEC Network
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THE MATCHUP

Head Coach Todd Whitting spent seven seasons under Texas A&M Jim Schlossnagle at TCU (2004-10).
Houston last faced the #1 team in the country in 2020 against Texas Tech in Round Rock, Texas, dropping the game 3-2.
The Cougars' last win against the #1 team in the country came on May 12, 2006, against Rice in the series opener. Houston won the game 3-0.
Alex Lopez and Anthony Tulimero had two of Huston's six hits in the 2023 meeting against Texas A&M in Houston. The Aggies won the game 5-1.
Houston won the 2022 meeting in College Station, 8-2.
Tulimero drove in the Cougars seventh run of the game in the 2022 win in College Station.
This is the second-most played matchup in program history, tied with Sam Houston at 176 total meetings.

QUICK HITTERS

Right-handed pitcher Dan Wright is coming off a career-best outing against Houston Christian spinning a career-long 6.0 scoreless innings with a career-high five strikeouts.
The Cougars have scored five or more runs in 10 of the last 12 games and have recorded 10+ hits in nine of the last 10 games.
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.
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 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.
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.
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

Came from behind scoring six runs over the final four innings to win 8-5 over Cincinnati to salvage a game in the series.

SERIES HISTORY
Houston record vs Texas A&M                   59-115-1
Last meeting                                                            L, 5-1, 3/14/23, Home
Streak                                                                           Texas A&M, W2

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