BYU announced on May 13 that it will host No. 14 ranked Kansas for a three-game baseball series from May 14-16 at Miller Park in Provo. The games mark the final regular-season Big 12 matchup for both teams.
The series is significant as it could impact conference standings ahead of the postseason tournament. Kansas currently leads the Big 12 with a one-game advantage over West Virginia, while BYU sits in eighth place, holding narrow leads over Baylor and Utah.
All three games will be broadcast live on ESPN+, with additional radio coverage available through the BYU Radio app, BYUradio.org, SiriusXM channel 143, and local FM station 107.9 in Utah County. Greg Wrubell will provide play-by-play commentary. Thursday and Friday’s games are scheduled for 6 p.m., while Saturday’s game begins at 1 p.m.
Kansas holds an all-time lead of eleven wins to seven against BYU after taking two out of three games last season in Lawrence. In previous meetings at Miller Park, Kansas has won four times compared to BYU’s two victories.
Kansas enters the series with a record of thirty-seven wins and fifteen losses overall, including twenty wins in conference play this season. The Jayhawks have hit eighty-six home runs as a team and are led offensively by Tyson LeBlanc, who is batting .330 with seventeen home runs and fifty-one runs batted in.
BYU comes into the matchup with twenty-six wins and twenty-five losses overall, including thirteen victories within the Big 12 conference. Sophomore first baseman Ezra McNaughton leads the Cougars offensively with a .348 average along with top ten rankings within the conference for hits (seventy-three), home runs (fifteen), runs batted in (fifty-one), and total bases (one hundred thirty-two).
Pitching matchups feature senior left-hander Wayland Crane starting game one for BYU; he has started thirteen games this year posting forty-four strikeouts over fifty-three innings pitched. Senior right-hander Garrison Sumner will start game two for BYU; he leads his team with seventy-five strikeouts across sixty innings pitched this season.
For Kansas, Dominic Voegele starts game one; he has recorded ninety-four strikeouts across seventy-three innings pitched this year including double-digit strikeout performances recently. Mason Cook will start game two; he is four-and-one on the year with fifty-one strikeouts across forty-nine innings pitched.
Following this weekend’s series against Kansas, BYU will travel to Surprise, Arizona to compete in the Big 12 Baseball Tournament from May nineteenth through May twenty-third.
