Apr 13, 2017; Kansas City, MO, USA; A detail view of a baseball on the field prior to a game between the Kansas City Royals and the Oakland Athletics at Kauffman Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Peter G. Aiken-USA TODAY Sports

After a week off, Texas Baseball is entering the stretch run of the college baseball season.

The Longhorns have not played since their sickening series sweep against TCU two weekends ago. They’ve had a week-and-a-half to try to move on from that road trip to Fort Worth.

Now, Texas Baseball faces Incarnate Word on Tuesday night in Austin. After the mid-week game, the Longhorns close the Big 12 regular season schedule at home against West Virginia.

WVU is sitting right ahead of Texas in the Big 12 regular season standings. The Horns are in seventh place with a 9-11 record after the losses to TCU. Meanwhile, WVU is 11-10, tied with surprising Kansas for sixth.

Fortunately, Texas Baseball is in good position for postseason play. That is, as long as Texas fares well this last week of the regular season.

Texas Baseball Postseason Status

After not playing baseball last week, the Longhorns dipped from #21 to #23 in the RPI Rankings released by the NCAA.

Just before Texas is West Virginia at #20 in the RPI Rankings. Overall, the Big 12 conference has six teams in the Top 25 RPI Rankings:

#4: Texas Tech

#6: TCU

#13: Baylor

#17: Oklahoma

#20 West Virginia

#23: Texas

Because of the strength of the conference, Texas is in good position for the NCAA Tournament.

In the latest Bracketology released by College Sports Madness, Texas is a #3 seed. And, just like last week, CSM is projecting Texas in a regional hosted by Stanford. Of course, the Horns already traveled to Palo Alto, where they lost three winnable games in 24 hours.

There is still a lot of baseball to played. The Horns have these last four regular season games before the Big 12 tournament next week in Oklahoma City.

Texas Baseball has several more opportunities to improve their NCAA Tournament standing as they try to make it back to Omaha for the College World Series.