Texas Tech baseball surging ahead of final two Big 12 series

The Texas Tech baseball team is playing some of its best baseball as it enters the final two Big 12 series of the season with an opportunity to claim another conference title.

It is amazing to consider just how far expectations for the Texas Tech baseball program have risen in the past five years. Thanks to Tim Tadlock guiding his program to the College World Series three times since 2014, Red Raider fans now expect nothing less than a Big 12 title and a trip to Omaha.

And this season began with as much hype as any in the Tadlock era given that the Red Raiders entered the year with a top-5 national ranking and boasting the best player in program history, Josh Jung. But inconsistency on the…