AUSTIN, Texas — Ending the season with a 6-4 win over Oklahoma that got Texas back to .500 and kept the defending Big 12 champion Longhorns from finishing with a losing record as well as avoiding a season-ending series sweep at the hands of the Sooners, David Pierce’s focus wasn’t trying to find a silver lining to a disappointing 2019 season.

Yes, the Longhorns won their last game of the season, but the achievement was bittersweet for Pierce, to say the least.

“If (we) won the last game in Omaha, we would dogpile,” Pierce said. “I’m going inside to take a shower, I’m going to eat and I’m going home. We’re not dogpiling.”

One season after winning the Big 12 championship and ending the season in Omaha at the College World Series, Texas lost 16 of the team’s final 23 games en route to a 27-27 record, which included a 7-16 mark in conference play — dead last in the league. Failing to qualify for the conference tournament and missing a regional for the first time in his career as a head coach, Pierce has a lot to think about during what’s sure to be a long offseason.