CWS Game 6 Notes: Oklahoma State vs. Arizona Monday, June 20, 2016

Oklahoma State 1, Arizona 0 – Attendance 22,981 (MCWS Total: 124,930; Avg. 20,822) – Time of Game: 2:49

Oklahoma State advances to the winner’s bracket game on Friday at 2 p.m. (ET) Arizona will play UC Santa Barbara Wednesday at 6 p.m. (CT)

Oklahoma State (43-20): • OSU is back in the CWS for the 20th time where they own a 40-36 all-time record … The Cowboys are one of 30 teams with an all-time winning record in the CWS … Among teams to play at least 30 games in Omaha, they’re one of just 10 to win more games than they’ve lost … OSU won the 1959 national title defeating Arizona 4-0 and 5-3 for its only title … • The Cowboys return to the CWS for the first time since 1999 … The 16-year drought was tied for the longest drought among the six schools to make at least 20 CWS trips … Most CWS trips all-time: Texas/35, Miami, Fla./25, Arizona State/22, Florida State/21, USC/21 and Oklahoma State/20 … • Josh Holliday is in his fourth year as head … Owns a 170-77 all-time record as head coach … Sports a 13-6 all-time record in NCAA Tournament … • Holiday, who has guided the Cowboys to four-straight NCAA postseason berths, is the 17th person to reach the CWS as both a player and coach … Was a member of the 1996 and 1999 OSU teams as a pitcher … Also made appearances with Georgia Tech (2006/Assistant Coach), Arizona State (2009) and Vanderbilt (2011) … • Holiday and his father Tom (OSU head coach from 1997-2003) are the first father-son combination to lead teams to the CWS … Tom led OSU to the 1999 CWS where the Cowboys went 0-2 losing to Alabama 11-3 and Rice 7- 2 … Josh’s brother is a current member of the St. Louis Cardinals and seven-time MLB All-Star … • OSU is 7-0 in 2016 NCAA Tournament (2-0 CWS) and has the best differential in the NCAA Tournament (+31), and the best among the eight teams in Omaha … The Cowboys swept the team with the best run differential in the Super Regionals (South Carolina, +30) … OSU has scored 37 runs in the NCAA Tournament, while opponents have crossed home just six times … • With a win over Arizona, Oklahoma State becomes the sixth team to post 40 CWS wins (others: Texas/85, USC/74, Arizona State/61, Miami (Fla.)/48, Stanford/40) … • After allowing 25 runs in two losses in the Big 12 Tournament, the Cowboys have given up six runs (five earned) in seven NCAA Tournament games … • As a staff, they have allowed five earned runs in 63.0 innings for a 0.71 ERA … Starters have allowed three earned runs in 54.0 innings for a 0.50 ERA … They have not allowed a run in 19-consecutive innings (18.0 in 2016 CWS) … • The Cowboys are the first team in CWS history to throw consecutive 1-0 shutouts (vs. UC Santa Barbara and vs. Arizona) … • OSU has not trailed in seven games in the NCAA Tournament … They’re the first team to enter the CWS without trailing in the NCAA Tournament since Georgia Tech did it in 2002 … • The Cowboys have started 2-0 in Omaha for the sixth time in program history … In the five previous 2-0 starts they have reached the CWS championship game (winner: 1959; runner-up: 1961, 1981, 1987 and 1990) … • Tyler Buffett (9-3) worked a career-high 8.0 shutout innings allowing three hits with six strikeouts … In three NCAA Tournament games, he has allowed just two runs (both earned) on 18 hits with six walks and 16 strikeouts … With the start (fifth of the season), he set OSU’s single-season record for appearances (36) with his start tonight against Arizona (previous record was 35 by Brendan McCurry in 2014) … • Trey Cobb tossed an inning of shutout relief picking up his sixth save of the season … In five NCAA Tournament games he has allowed one run (earned) on three hits with six walks and 10 strikeouts in 9.0 innings … Registered his fourth save of the NCAA Tournament … • Donnie Walton tallied his team-leading 25th multi- game with a single in the sixth inning … He now has eight hits in this year’s NCAA Tournament … • Garrett Benge plated OSU’s first run of the game with a single to center scoring Donnie Walton from second … The base hit was his third of the CWS and eight of the NCAA Tournament – extended on-base streak to nine games … He has both of OSU’s RBI in the CWS … • Connor Costello reached after getting hit by a Bobby Dalbec pitch in the fourth inning, which extended his current on-base streak to 12 games (dates back to May 20 vs. Kansas in game one of a -header) … • With the shutout, Oklahoma State has 10 on the season, which is third in the nation - Tulane leads with 13 … CWS Game 6 Notes: Oklahoma State vs. Arizona Monday, June 20, 2016

Arizona (45-22): • The loss snaps the Wildcats six-game winning streak … • Arizona will face UC Santa Barbara in an elimination game on Wednesday, June 22 at 6:00 pm (CT) … • Arizona fell to 39-28 (.582) all-time at the CWS … The 39 victories are seventh in CWS history, one behind Oklahoma State … • Arizona is now 23-1 this season when holding opponents to two runs or less … • The Wildcats fell to 6-1 all-time at TD Ameritrade Park Omaha, while Oklahoma State improved to 6-0 … • Over seven games at TD Ameritrade Park Omaha, Arizona starters have lasted at least seven innings in each contest … • Starter Bobby Dalbec recorded career-high 12 strikeouts, tying the most by any pitcher at TDAPO in CWS history (tied with TCU’s Alex Young – 2015) … • Dalbec threw 122 pitches in the loss. His season-high was 129 in his last outing (June 10 at Mississippi State) … • The Wildcats’ three hits tied a season-low (three hits in a 6-2 loss to Washington State on April 9th) … • Arizona had just one runner reach second base, that coming in the bottom of the third … • Last time Arizona was shutout at the CWS came in 1970 against Florida State, 4-0 … CWS Game 6 Notes: Oklahoma State vs. Arizona Monday, June 20, 2016

2016 Notes

Runs Notes: • Miami allowed four of the CWS’ five runs in the first inning this year (3 vs. Arizona, 1 vs. USCB) … • Through 6 games there have been 27 runs scored – the fewest in CWS history • Of the last 47 teams to score five or more runs at the CWS, 45 of them have won (Virginia lost 10-5 to Florida/2015, Virginia lost 9-8 to Vanderbilt/ 2014) – since 2010 at Rosenblatt … Since the CWS moved to TD Ameritrade Park, teams that score at least 5 runs are 40-2 (.952) … • In this year’s CWS, 22 of the 27 runs scored (81.5%) have been driven in via a hit … • In other words, 5 of the 27 runs (18.5%) have scored as a result of something other than a hit … • Actual scoring breakdown: hits (22), sac bunt (2), error (1), sac fly (1) and walk (1) … • Inning breakdown of runs scored: first (5), second (0), third (3), fourth (4), fifth (5), sixth (4), seventh (0), eighth (3) and ninth (3) …

Hit Notes: • Coastal Carolina’s first five hits of the game (vs. Florida/Game 4) went for extra bases (3 doubles, 2 triples) marking the first time at the CWS in TDAPO that a team’s first five base knocks were for extra bases … • Hits breakdown: singles (48), doubles (17), triples (2) and home runs (2) …

Home Run Notes: • Through six games of the CWS, we have had three home runs (Cam Warner/TCU/Game 3; Luken Baker/TCU/Game 3; Zack Collins/Miami/Game 5) … • Luken Baker’s (TCU) three-run homer in the top of the ninth is just the second homer in the 9th inning (or later) in the CWS at TDAPO (other was Jeren Kendall from Vanderbilt in 2015 – walk-off) … • The total number of home runs at TDAPO is 43 (81 CWS game in park history) … CWS chart at TDAPO including Sunday: LF/18, LCF/5, CF/3, RCF/2 and RF/15) … In all games played at TDAPO, there have been 115 home runs …

Pitching Notes • Game 1 between Oklahoma State and UC Santa Barbara was the first CWS game with both starting pitchers throwing a complete game since June 19, 2013 … Oregon State’s Matt Boyd and Indiana’s Aaron Siegers did it … • Andrew Beckwith (Coastal Carolina/Game 4) is the third pitcher in this year’s CWS to toss a complete game (others: Thomas Hatch/Oklahoma State and Shane Bieber/UC Santa Barbara – both in Game 1) … There was only one complete thrown in the 2014 CWS and 2015 CWS … • Arizona is the first staff since 2010 to have two pitchers with at least 10 strikeouts in a game (Nathan Bannister/11 and Bobby Dalbec/12) … The last team was UCLA in 2010 ( twice, ) …

Shutout Notes: • With Thomas Hatch’s (Oklahoma State) complete game shutout in Game 1 vs. UC Santa Barbara, it was the 82nd CG SHO in CWS History and first since Matt Boyd (Oregon State) on 2013 vs. Indiana on 6/19/13 which is a 1-0 contest … • Only four teams have opened the CWS with back-to-back shutouts; 2 went on to win the title (1992 Pepperdine and 1955 Wake Forest did, 1970 Florida St didn't) – Oklahoma State has two in 2016 CWS … Last team to throw consecutive shutouts was Texas in 2014 (against UC Irvine/1-0 and Vanderbilt/4-0) – the Longhorns finished tied for third in the CWS that year … • Oklahoma State is the first school in CWS history to throw consecutive 1-0 shutouts (vs. UC Santa Barbara/Game 1, vs. Arizona/Game 6) … They are the fourth team to open a CWS with back-to-back shutouts – 2 of previous 3 went on to win the national championship … • With OSU’s 1-0 win over UC Santa Barbara, it is the fourth-straight year with a 1-0 game in the CWS … There were no 1-0 games in Omaha from 1986-2012 (27 years) … Last 1-0 game to open a CWS was in 1985 (Arkansas 1, South Carolina 0) … There have been three 1-0 games to open a CWS (Wake Forest 1, Colgate 0/1955; Minnesota 1, Oklahoma 0/1973; Arkansas 1, South Carolina 0/1985) … This is the 22nd 1-0 decision in CWS history …

CWS Game 6 Notes: Oklahoma State vs. Arizona Monday, June 20, 2016

Taking The Lead Notes: • Teams leading after eight innings have won 86 of the last 88 CWS games (Vanderbilt overcame a 3-1 deficit to defeat Cal State Fullerton 4-3 in Game 4 of 2015; TCU scored three runs in top of ninth to beat Texas Tech in Game 3 of 2016) … • Teams leading after eight innings at TD Ameritrade Park Omaha are 222-8 all-time at TDAPO in 230 games …

Miscellaneous Notes • First official review in CWS history (started in 2012) came in top of the third inning of Game 4 in the 2016 CWS between Coastal Carolina and Florida … The call was four minutes and six seconds (4:06) and was overturned on the field in favor of Coastal Carolina … Original call was a foul ball down the right field line – overturned for an RBI double … • National Seeds are 0-4 in the 2016 CWS (No. 3 Miami/0-2/eliminated; No. 5 Texas Tech loss in Game 3; No. 1 Florida loss to Coastal Carolina/2-1 in Game 4) … It is just the second time in 18 years since the NCAA Tournament expanded in 1999, no national teams won their opening game at the CWS (2013: LSU, North Carolina and Oregon State) … Only two of the last 12 national champions have been national seeds (LSU/2009 and South Carolina/2011) … • Florida, who is making its 10th CWS appearance, is searching for its first national title … Only four teams that have made 10 CWS appearances have not won a championship (Florida State/21, Clemson/12, North Carolina/10, Northern Colorado/10) … • For the first time since 2012, the CWS had more than one team in the field make its first CWS appearance with Coastal Carolina and UC Santa Barbara … In 2012, it was Kent State (1-2) and Stony Brook (0-2) … • Since 2007, nine teams made the CWS debut posting 2-8 record in opening games (10-17 overall) … • Oklahoma State is one of three Big 12 teams in this year’s CWS (Texas Tech and TCU) … Last time a conference had multiple bids with each team reaching Omaha was the Big 8 in 1993 (Kansas and Oklahoma State) … Last time a conference has three or more bids with each team making the CWS was the SEC in 1990 (Georgia, LSU and Mississippi State) … • Josh Holliday (Oklahoma State), Jay Johnson (Arizona) and Gary Gillmore (Coastal Carolina) picked their first career wins in the CWS … The last head coach to win his CWS debut was Elliot Avent (NC State) on June 16, 2013 … • Saturday’s meeting (Game 2) between Arizona and Miami (Fla.) was the first in Omaha between programs with 38-plus CWS wins since 2009, when Arizona State faced Texas twice … • June 13, 1955 was the last time that Oklahoma State and Arizona both won CWS games on the same day … • Saturday marked the first time two head coaches (Josh Holliday and Jay Johnson) won their CWS debut on the same day since June 19, 2010, when (TCU) and John Savage (UCLA) both won, also on the Opening Day of the CWS … • The Big 12 is 18-4 in the NCAA Tournament after today’s result, including a 3-1 mark in the 2016 CWS … Those 17 victories have come against teams from 12 different leagues … The Big 12 is the only conference with a different regular-season and postseason champion both in Omaha (Texas Tech and TCU) … • Jim Schlossnagle (TCU) and (Texas Tech) are the only coaches in Big 12 history to guide their squads to the CWS twice in their first four years coaching in the conference … • For the first time since 2005, the Atlantic Coast Conference failed to advance a team past its first two games … • Teams to score first are now 3-2 in the 2016 CWS … Visiting teams are 3-2 so far this year … • Game 5 had a 62-minute rain delay … Last weather delay in CWS was Vanderbilt vs. Cal State Fullerton (June 14 & 15, 2015) … Delay lasted 1:19 with Cal State leading 3-0 in the bottom of the sixth inning – later suspended until next day) … • The start time of Game 6 was delayed two hours and 21 minutes due to weather … Last time we had a starting delay for inclement weather was June 21, 2012 (South Carolina vs. Kent State) … Rain forced the game to be moved from June 20 to June 21 …