Completed Event: Baseball versus TCU on May 17, 2025 , Loss , 6, to, 8 , (11 inn.)
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Friday, March 14
Manhattan, Kan.
6 p.m.
University of Utah
at
Kansas State
Inaugural Big 12 Slate Begins in Little Apple
3/13/2025 10:00 AM | Baseball
Utah takes on Kansas State for three-game series in Manhattan
| 2025 Utah Baseball Game Notes | |
| Games 17-19 Date // Time (MT) |
Utah (11-5, 0-0 Big 12) at Kansas State (9-7, 0-0 Big 12) Friday, March 14 // 5 p.m. Saturday, March 15 // 3 p.m. Sunday, March 16 // Noon |
| Location | Manhattan, Kan. (Tointon Family Stadium) |
| Live Statistics | StatBroadcast |
| Watch | ESPN+ |
| Game Notes | Utah // Kansas State // Big 12 Conference |
| @UtahBaseball Social Media | Twitter/X // Instagram // Facebook // #GoUtes // #UteNotes |
The First Pitch: Things to Know
The inaugural Big 12 Conference schedule begins this weekend for the Utah baseball team and it sends the Utes to Kansas State for a three-game series. Utah will travel out to Manhattan, Kansas, for the series which runs from March 14-16 inside Tointon Family Stadium.
- Utah is 11-5 on the season and looks to get back on track after back-to-back losses in the rubber game at San Jose State (March 9) and a midweek contest at California (March 11). It is the first time this season the Utes have dropped consecutive games.
- Now members of the Big 12 Conference, the league is Utah's fifth affiliation since resuming varsity baseball in 1948. Previously, the Utes have played in the Skyline Conference (1948-62), WAC (1963-99), Mountain West (2000-2011) and Pac-12 Conference (2012-24). Since joining the WAC, Utah has won five conference championships, most recently in 2016 as a member of the Pac-12.
- Utah and Kansas State have met six times on the baseball diamond in recorded history; K-State leads the series 5-1 dating back to 2001. An odd twist: all of the six games have been neutral-site contests as part of non-conference tournaments. They include the Applebee's Baseball Fiesta (2001 in Albuquerque, N.M.), Pac-12/Big 12 Challenge (2015 and '16 in Surprise, Ariz.), Tony Gwynn Legacy (2019 in San Diego) and the Kleberg Bank College Classic (2020 in Corpus Christi, Texas).
- Of the three Division I baseball teams in The Sunflower State, K-State is the last for Utah to visit. Previously, the Utes traveled to Wichita State in 1997 and Kansas in 2015.
- Despite a series setback last weekend at San Jose State, shortstop Core Jackson and second baseman Matt Flaharty both hit over .330 for the weekend. Jackson homered in the series opener among his four hits, scoring three runs.
- Friday night starter Colter McAnelly struck out eight Spartans in the series opener, before fellow right-hander Merit Jones tossed eight innings on Saturday and fanned six—on the way to a series-evening victory.
- The Utah bats enter Big 12 play in the upper half of the league—as a club, Utah is hitting .300 which ranks sixth. It has been keyed by 45 doubles; a conference-best. Georgia Tech (51) leads the country in doubles entering this weekend.
- Headlining the offense has been Jackson, the two-hole hitter who is riding an 11-game hitting streak. The native of Wyoming, Ontario, boasts a team-best .431 batting average (fifth in the Big 12) while also owning Utah's top slugging percentage (.646), most runs scored (17) and total bases (42).
- Flaharty has started all 16 games at second base, bumping his batting average by more than 80 points from a season ago (.282 to .368). He has held down the leadoff spot in the batting order for much of the season to date, stringing together a .368 average with 12 RBI and a team-leading seven doubles.
- Defensively, Gary Henderson's club has been one of the cleanest in the country with just nine errors, the second-fewest in the Big 12. The team has a .984 fielding percentage, again tabbing No. 2 in the Big 12 and ranking 10th nationally. The Utes have gone error-free in eight games and had only one miscue in seven games.
- Once the Utes return home from the Little Apple, it'll be time for a five-game home stand at Smith's Ballpark. It kicks off with Opening Night on Tuesday, March 18 against Northern Colorado, with first pitch at 6 p.m. MT.
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