TCU Announces 2003 Baseball Schedule
10/17/2002 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
Oct. 17, 2002
FORT WORTH, Texas - TCU head baseball coach Lance Brown has announced the Horned Frogs' 2003 schedule. The 56-game regular-season slate includes 29 games at the new home of the Frogs, state-of-the-art Lupton Stadium and Williams-Reilly Field.
TCU will open the Lupton Stadium era when they host metroplex-rival Texas-Arlington on Wednesday, Feb. 5. The ballpark will be officially dedicated on Friday, Feb. 21, when the Horned Frogs host Texas Tech in the first game of a three-game weekend series with the Red Raiders.
Other highlights of the non-conference portion of the Frogs' home ledger include weekend series with Texas-San Antonio (Feb. 7-9) and former WAC-foe and 2002 NCAA regional-finalist BYU (March 6-8). TCU will also welcome Baylor (March 18) and Oklahoma (March 25) of the Big 12 to Lupton Stadium for mid-week tilts.
In Conference USA action, each of the league's five teams that reached the 2002 NCAA Tournament will play three-game series in Lupton Stadium. The Horned Frogs open league play with a three-game set versus Tulane March 14-16. The other C-USA foes that will visit Fort Worth are Super Regional-participant Houston (March 28-30), regional finalists East Carolina (April 18-20) and South Florida (May 2-4) and NCAA regional-participant Louisville (May 15-17).
In all, 27 of the Frogs' 56 games will be against 2002 NCAA Tournament qualifiers, with 23 of those 27 being played at Lupton Stadium.
"As always, we have tried to put together a very demanding schedule," TCU Head Coach Lance Brown says. "It's nice, though, that a lot of our most challenging games will be played in our new home. We are excited to bring such top-level competition into Lupton Stadium and hope that our fans will not only enjoy a terrific family atmosphere at our new ballpark, but also some of the nation's best college baseball."
Times for each ballgame will be released at a later date.
