Texas Southern Tigers baseball

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Texas Southern Tigers
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Founded1965 (1965)
University Texas Southern University
Head coach Michael Robertson (16th season)
Conference SWAC
West Division
Location Houston, Texas
Home stadium MacGregor Park
Nickname Tigers
ColorsMaroon and gray [1]
   
NCAA Tournament appearances
2004, 2008, 2015, 2017, 2018
Conference tournament champions
2004, 2008, 2015, 2017, 2018

The Texas Southern Tigers baseball team is the varsity intercollegiate baseball program of Texas Southern University in Houston, Texas, United States. The program's first season was 1965, and it has been a member of the NCAA Division I Southwestern Athletic Conference since the start of the 1999 season. Its home venue is MacGregor Park, owned by the city of Houston. Michael Robertson is the team's head coach starting in the 2009 season. The program has appeared in 5 NCAA Tournaments. It has won five conference tournament championships and no regular season conference titles. As of the start of the 2018 Major League Baseball season, no former Tigers have appeared in Major League Baseball.

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History

Texas Southern in the NCAA Tournament

YearRecordPctNotes
2004 1–2.333 Houston Regional
2008 0–2.000 Baton Rouge Regional
2015 0–2.000 College Station Regional
2017 0–2.000 Baton Rouge Regional
2018 0–2.000 Austin Regional
TOTALS
1–10.091

Conference affiliations

MacGregor Park

The MacGregor Park is a public park owned by the City of Houston. The Tigers play their home games at the park for just 20 percent of the games that the Tigers do host during a given season. [2]

Head coaches

Texas Southern's longest tenured head coach was Candy Robinson, who has coached the team from 1990 to 2008.

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References

  1. TSU Graphic Standards (PDF). September 1, 2015. Retrieved April 9, 2016.
  2. Todd James (June 16, 2017). "Road less traveled: Texas Southern Baseball". texas.vype.com. Retrieved February 27, 2019.