OKLAHOMA CITY — The Texas Longhorns know how this looks. Worse, they know how it feels: There is nothing remotely enjoyable about being on the wrong end of an extraordinary hitting clinic from the best offense in the history of college softball. Not in any situation, and certainly not in the context of a championship series, triggering a win-or-go-home Game 2.
But Texas is used to having its back against the wall. In order to become the first unseeded team ever to make the final round of the Women’s College World Series, it played six elimination games this postseason, and it managed to win them all.