BeaversEdge - Oregon State Baseball The No. 2 Seed In Pac-12 Tournament
The Beavers will start the Pac-12 Tournament on Wednesday against Stanford...
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This will be the 2nd straight year for this tournament's format, a change from the 2022 inaugural tournament, with an expanded field from 8 teams to 9 teams and utilizing pool play. Pool play will take place on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, with 3 games per day followed by the semifinals on Friday, May 24 and the Championship game on Saturday, May 25. Pool A will include seeds #1, #6 and #9 with Pool B made up of seeds #2, #5, and #8. Seeds #3, #4 and #7 will compete in Pool C.
Arizona had come into the final weekend of Pac-12 play needing just 1 win over Oregon State to clinch the #1 seed. However, Oregon State won the first 2 games of the series in convincing fashion and led 3-2 going to the bottom of the 9th. This will be the highest seed for Arizona in the 3 years of the Pac-12 Tournament, earning a #5 seed in 2022 and the #8 seed in 2023. The Wildcats did make the championship game last season as the #8 seed.
Joining the Wildcats in Pool A is #6 seed CALIFORNIA and #9 seed WASHINGTON, two teams that just faced each other to close the regular season with the Bears winning all 3 games in Berkeley. Those two will match-up again on Tuesday at 7 p.m. PT. Arizona will then get Washington, a team the Wildcats lost 2 of 3 to in April up in Seattle in a series of 1-run games. Cal will then match up with Arizona on Thursday at 7 p.m. in the final game of 3 days of pool play. The Wildcats swept a road series with the Bears in early April.
Heading up Pool B will be the #2 seed OREGON STATE, the 3rd straight year the Beavers will be the #2 seed. Mitch Canham's squad will share Pool B with #5 seed ARIZONA STATE and #8 seed STANFORD. The Sun Devils and Cardinal will open the tournament at 10 a.m. PT on Tuesday, with ASU having swept the 3-game series on the Farm the previous weekend. A re-match of the 2022 championship game, Stanford will be the first test for Oregon State on Wednesday morning. The Beavers took 2 of 3 from Stanford in mid-April up in Corvallis. ASU and OSU wrap up Pool B at 10 a.m. on Thursday morning and the red-hot Sun Devil team, who's won 10 of their last 12 conference games, will seek revenge after being swept by the Beavers in early April.
Ending the regular season on a 5-game win streak, OREGON will be the #3 seed. Joining the Ducks in Pool C will be #4 seed USC and #7 UTAH who just wrapped up the regular season with each other, the Trojans coming away with a 3-game series sweep. The Utes will then take on Oregon on Wednesday afternoon, the Ducks just having taken 2 of 3 from Utah in Eugene earlier this month. Oregon and USC match up in the 3 vs. 4 game on Thursday afternoon, the Trojans looking for a little payback after dropping 2 of 3 in Eugene back in mid-April.
At the conclusion of pool play on Thursday night, the three pool winners will advance to the Friday single-elimination semifinals along with one Wild Card team. The Wild Card will be determined by the best record of the non-advancing teams with any tiebreaker awarded to the highest seeded team.
The semifinal matchups will pit the highest-seeded team against the lowest-seeded team on one side with the second-highest seed and second-lowest seed on the other. Teams from the same pool however will not play each other in the semifinals.
Every game will be televised with Pac-12 Networks the home for all games Tuesday through Friday. On Saturday, the 2024 Pac-12 Tournament Championship Game will air on ESPNU at 7 p.m. PT.
2024 Pac-12 Baseball Tournament (Scottsdale Stadium, Scottsdale, Ariz.)
| Tuesday, May 21 | TV | Time |
| Game 1: #8 seed Stanford vs. #5 seed Arizona State | Pac-12 Networks | 10:00 a.m. PT |
| Game 2: #7 seed Utah vs. #4 seed USC | Pac-12 Networks | 2:30 p.m. PT |
| Game 3: #9 seed Washington vs. #6 seed California | Pac-12 Networks | 7:00 p.m. PT |
| Wednesday, May 22 | TV | TIME |
| Game 4: #2 seed Oregon State vs. #8 seed Stanford | Pac-12 Networks | 10:00 a.m. PT |
| Game 5: #3 seed Oregon vs. #7 seed Utah | Pac-12 Networks | 2:30 p.m. PT |
| Game 6: #1 seed Arizona vs. #9 seed Washington | Pac-12 Networks | 7:00 p.m. PT |
| Thursday, May 23 | TV | TIME |
| Game 7: #5 seed Arizona State vs. #2 seed Oregon State | Pac-12 Networks | 10:00 a.m. PT |
| Game 8: #4 seed USC vs. #3 seed Oregon | Pac-12 Networks | 2:30 p.m. PT |
| Game 9: #6 seed California vs. #1 seed Arizona | Pac-12 Networks | 7:00 p.m. PT |
| Friday, May 24 | TV | TIME |
| Game 10: TBD vs. TBD | Pac-12 Networks | 2:30 p.m. PT |
| Game 11: TBD vs. TBD | Pac-12 Networks | 7:00 p.m. PT |
| Saturday, May 25 | TV | TIME |
| Game 12: Pac-12 Championship Game | ESPNU | 7:00 p.m. PT |
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