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A little more than a week ago, the Kansas baseball team made history by becoming the first club in program history to win a Big 12 Conference regular season title.

On Saturday night, Dan Fitzgerald's Jayhawks added to that historic run by becoming the first Kansas baseball team to win both the Big 12 regular season and Big 12 tournament titles.

Top-seeded KU claimed its second Big 12 trophy in 8 days with a 9-0 win over No. 2 seed West Virginia in Surprise, Arizona.

The win moved the Jayhawks to 42-16 on the season and further locked up what was probably already fully secure — this team will be hosting an NCAA Regional at Hoglund Ballpark for the first time in school history late next week.

While that feat and the Jayhawks' first Big 12 tourney title since 2006 were both significant accomplishments, it's impossible to overlook the importance of the way they got it.

Saturday's dominant win over West Virginia not only validated the Jayhawks' regular season title. It also exacted some serious revenge on a WVU squad that came to Lawrence and swept the Jayhawks just two weeks ago.

How's that for taking some serious momentum and swagger into the NCAA Tournament?

Saturday's win had a little bit of everything.

• A first-inning home run by Tyson Owens.

• Three consecutive home runs in the 7th inning by Josh Dykhoff, Augusto Mungarrieta and Jordan Bach.

• Bach throwing out a WVU runner at home plate from right field to preserve a 1-0 KU lead at the time.

• Tyson LeBlanc being named Big 12 tourney MVP after hitting a pair of home runs (he's got 21 on the season and is one away from owning the school's single-season home run record all by himself) and driving in 7 runs while going 8-for-13 in the Jayhawks' three wins in the desert.

And so many other moments, big and small, that have defined this team and what the 2026 Kansas baseball season is all about.

But by far the most memorable moment from this one came after the victory was secured, when KU coach Dan Fitzgerald was handed the Kansas sticker and asked to go complete the Big 12 bracket — urged and begged by his players, actually — by slapping the Kansas name in the slot reserved on the board for the Big 12 tournament champion.

Fitzgerald is the last guy in the world who would want to take that moment for himself. But he's also the last guy who would want to disrespect the wishes of his team by going out of his way to avoid it. So he didn't.

The fact that his players demanded that he do it speaks volumes about who Fitz is and what he's meant to this team, this program and these players.

In just four years, he has built Kansas baseball into a winner, a team with championship aspirations and expectations, a team that says why not us and then goes out and delivers.

Remember, this is a group that could count the number of returners from last season's 41-win club on one hand. And, yet, here they are, a whole bunch of new faces and some names we'll never forget hoisting not one but two Big 12 title trophies.

This isn't just a cool moment for Kansas. This is a cool moment for college baseball and for college sports in general.

These are the teams that remind you why college athletics is so special.

And, now, with Kansas returning to Hoglund Ballpark for an NCAA Regional that will officially be announced at 7:30 p.m. central on Sunday night — the rest of the bracket and the identity of the three teams coming to Lawrence will come at 11 a.m. central on Monday — this group will have a golden opportunity to add to its already enormous run of success.

The things within reach in the next few weeks include:

• A regional title

• Playing in and potentially hosting a Super Regional

• Earning a trip to Omaha as the second Jayhawk team in school history (1993) to qualify for the College World Series

• And who knows how many more memorable home runs, rock-solid pitching performances or magical moments like the one Savion Flowers delivered in extra innings to beat Baylor in the quarterfinals after having just 10 at-bats all season up to that point.

None of it will come easy. But nothing ever has for this bunch, a group made up mostly of former juco grinders who have proven to the world that they love baseball and will do anything it takes to play it, while proving to the rest of the Big 12 Conference that the club in Lawrence, Kansas can field a pretty formidable squad.

"Congratulations to Kansas," WVU coach Steve Sabins said after Saturday night's game. "Great team, they had a great season, and they played really well."

If they keep doing that, a few of those things mentioned above may soon become a reality, too.

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