EastBayDuckDad Moderator No. 1 Share Posted May 27 Oregon goes to the Santa Barbara Regional in NCAA tournament DUCKSWIRE.USATODAY.COM Oregon baseball stays on the West Coast and will head to sunny Santa Barbara to play in... The baseball team has been slotted in a west coast regional hosted by UCSB that includes Univ of San Diego and Fresno State. They are apparently the 3rd seed as they take on the USD Toreros first. Tough match-ups but it's a winnable regional if the bats that were AWOL in the Pac-12 tournament come back out to play. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles Fischer Administrator No. 2 Share Posted May 27 I am beside myself. Oregon got a Regional No. 3 Seed? This means the Ducks were not in even the top 32 teams in the nation, when we spent so much time in the top 20? Only three Pac-12 teams got into the tournament, and this proves what I feared; had USC upset Arizona in the Pac-12 Tournament title game (it was 3-3 going into the ninth inning) then the third Pac-12 spot would have been taken by the Trojans, and bounced the Ducks out. (Oregon missed winning the regular season league championship by one game) Oklahoma was a National No. 9 seed, a team Oregon beat at the beginning of the season. Grand Canyon is in the Tucson Regional as the WAC champion, a team that Oregon beat easily twice earlier in the season. Santa Barbara is a No. 14 seed, and we played a series with them at the beginning of the season and lost two games to one while we were figuring out our pitching. Good team, but better now than Oregon? The Ducks played San Diego last year, so there is familiarity with the regional for Coach Waz. The coach at UCSB, Andrew Checketts, was a great player at Oregon State, and was a pitching coach at Oregon for years under George Horton. If the Ducks win this regional, they would go to face the No. 3 national seed Texas A&M in College Station. We can do it! The B1G got three teams in, as the Pac-12 did, but NONE of them were nationally ranked as the Pac-12 teams were. Indiana 32-24, Nebraska 39-20, and Illinois 34-19 represent them. The Ducks beat the No. 2 National Seed last year, so let's go to work! We will see Ian Umlandt this next weekend... 1 2 Mr. FishDuck Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles Fischer Administrator No. 3 Share Posted May 27 Ducks headed to Santa Barbara Regional EUGENE, Ore. – The Oregon baseball team will make its fourth consecutive postseason appearance starting on Friday. The Ducks were selected as an at-large team and will play in the Santa Barbara Regional along with UC Santa Barbara, San Diego and Fresno State. The Ducks (37-18) open the regional on against San Diego (40-13) on Friday at 12 p.m. on ESPNU at Caesar Uyesaka Stadium. No. 14 UCSB (42-12) faces Fresno State (33-27) at 6 p.m. on Friday in the other first round game. Winners on Friday advance to play on Saturday at 7 p.m. while the two losers meet in the first game of the day at 1 p.m. Oregon is 38-26 all-time against the tournament field including a 32-19 record in the modern era of Oregon baseball. The Ducks own a 12-5 advantage over the Toreros with all but one of those games coming since 2009. The Ducks and USD last played last season when Oregon swept a four-game series in Eugene. Oregon and UCSB have split their all-time series with both teams winning 11 times. The Gauchos won two of three against Oregon earlier this year while Oregon swept UCSB in a four-game series that last time the two programs met in Santa Barbara in 2021. Oregon holds a 15-10 all-time series advantage over Fresno State, including a 10-5 record against the Bulldogs since 2009. The Ducks and Bulldogs last played in 2019 when the two squads split a four-game series in Eugene. Oregon is making its 11th all-time appearance in the NCAA Tournament. The four consecutive appearances matches the longest stretch in school history with the Ducks also qualifying four straight seasons from 2012 to 2015. The Ducks have two regional championships winning the Eugene Regional in 2012, while also winning the Nashville Regional last season. Santa Barbara Regional Field No. 1 UC Santa Barbara (Big West Champions) No. 2 San Diego (West Coast Conference Champions) No. 3 Oregon (At-Large) No. 4 Fresno State (Mountain West Champions) 1 1 Mr. FishDuck Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles Fischer Administrator No. 4 Share Posted May 27 Mr. FishDuck Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HDuck No. 5 Share Posted May 27 (edited) The Cal Golden Bears finished the year 36-19. Won 20 of their last 25 games. Of the 64 entrants, 26 had fewer wins than Cal. Some obviously auto entrants due to conference championship, but come on. The No. 11 entrant from the SEC deserves it more than Cal which went to the Pac12 semi-final? Edited May 27 by HDuck 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KCDuck1 No. 6 Share Posted May 28 (edited) Coach Wasikowski, Sir, Great that you and our Oregon Ducks baseball team made the NCAA Baseball Tournament. One thing I learned from you and our Ducks while in and after the '22 and '23 PAC-12 tournament teams is the PAC-12 Baseball Tournament validates the teams that should be selected for the NCAA tourney. If a team loses one or two games in that Tourney, they are self-validating not to be selected. You slid past that hurdle, but not over it. You and our team had some bitter comments after the two losses in the '22 PAC-12 Tourney, and yet, you lost both games and were out. This tourney is where leadership on the part of the coaches and certainly the teams is demonstrated, throughout. Leaders in coaching and among the players imbue their team(s) with purpose, energy, determination, execution, and a no-quit attitude every time the going gets tough. That is what the Ducks fans saw last year. That is not what we are seeing now. You have all our support - use it, but lead! That offensive production for which your/our Duck team had been known has been lacking and inconsistent. You and your coaches are the experts - fix it! While you are fixing it, move ahead of the power curve, and lead, consistently. Your team needs to be good at everything, and great at many things.It's time to look in the mirror, buck up, and move out. Please, lead our baseball team out and win a lot of games, all the games no one believes you and they can. Stop complaining, and apply leadership. You have felt it, seen it, and you have been it! VR, KCDuck1 -- Win Ducks, Win! Edited May 28 by KCDuck1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Joseph Moderator No. 7 Share Posted May 28 But a great history. (Please forgive the source; enemies closer.) Pac-12 baseball dominated the nation for decades, remains No. 1 TROJANSWIRE.USATODAY.COM The Pac-12 ends its existence as the greatest college baseball conference of all time, and it’s not a close call, either. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles Fischer Administrator No. 8 Share Posted May 28 Oregon was not the only one hosed by the NCAA again, as Oregon State was given a No. 15 National Seed, when they had been No. 5 or No. 6 for most of the season? No. 15? Oh wait...wasn't UC Santa Barbara, where Oregon is going the 14th National Seed? They were ranked higher than Oregon State? And within that Corvallis Regional is UC Irvine, who hovered between No. 12 and No. 18 for most of the season....placed in the same regional? 1 Mr. FishDuck Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KCDuck1 No. 9 Share Posted May 28 John Joseph, Sir, You stated, "(...enemies closer)". Believe you meant [and] keep your enemies closer. The NCAA is no friend to the Ducks, and I would be surprised if any B1G team was a friend to any new team arriving in the conference to potentially knock any and all off their accustomed perch. VR, KCDuck1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Joseph Moderator No. 10 Share Posted May 30 Do not be surprised if the same thing happens in football. Most of the 2024 CFB preseason polls would have the SEC hosting three first-round games. Five of the seven-quarter, semi, and the champ game will be played in Dixie. The Peach Bowl semifinal and the champion game will be played in Atlanta at Mercedes Benz Stadium, the site of the SEC champ game. I am delighted to see OBD going B1G. I am not happy with playing eight football games in a row without a break and to date, crickets from B1G Commissioner Tony Petitti regarding the SEC's (and ACC's) eight-game conference schedule. Nothing can be done regarding playoff sites before 2026-27 but I hope we also will hear from Petitti on this regional imbalance. Cal was 36-19, Florida 28-27, but Gators make NCAA baseball regional TROJANSWIRE.USATODAY.COM The SEC thrives at the Pac-12’s expense. It’s a tale as old as time. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
