Oregon baseball draws No. 12-seed, will host regional
Published 5:31 pm Monday, May 26, 2025
- Oregon baseball's Anson Aroz stands in the on-deck circle against Portland on April 2. Aroz delivered a ninth-inning home run to give the Ducks some insurance en route to a 3-1 win over Michigan State on Sunday, May 4. Staff photo: Jonathan House
Oregon baseball’s PK Park was announced as a regional host-site for the 2025 NCAA baseball championship, with the Ducks announced as the No. 12 national-seed during the 64-team field’s unveiling Monday, May 26.
Oregon’s selection marks the fourth time since the program’s 2009 rebirth that Eugene was selected as a regional host and the second time since Mark Wasikowski was named head coach in 2019, first doing so in 2021. Former head coach George Horton accomplished the feat twice, hosting back-to-back regionals in 2012 and 2013.
Wasikowski and his Ducks will be hunting a third-straight trip to a super regional, hosting Oral Roberts in 2023 and visiting Texas A&M in 2024. Oregon has not reached the College World Series since 1954.
The Ducks finished out the regular season and conference-tournament weekend with a 42-14 record, winning a share of the Big Ten’s regular-season crown and the tournament’s top seed. Oregon was unable to make it out of pool play, however, falling to eventual-champion Nebraska in its second game in Omaha.
While Oregon sat at No. 4 in D1Baseball.com’s May 19 top-25 poll, its RPI took a hit with the loss to the Cornhuskers, falling four places from No. 12 to No. 16. The Ducks selection as the No. 12-seed makes them the highest-ranked team by D1baseball to not earn a top-8 seed, while also being the second-lowest rated team by RPI to earn a host-site (No. 16-seed Southern Mississippi sat at No. 19 in RPI).
The Ducks will be the odd-man out at the Eugene regional, with three conference-tournament champions joining the four-team field’s double-elimination bracket. Big 12 tournament champion Arizona (39-18) enters as the No. 2-seed, with Big West champ Cal Poly (41-17) as the No. 3 and Western Athletic Conference champion Utah Valley (32-27) as the No. 4-seed.
The Eugene regional will be paired with No. 5 national-seed and ACC champion North Carolina’s (42-12) Chapel Hill regional. Oklahoma (35-20), Nebraska (32-27) and Holy Cross (31-25) fill out the remaining three spots in Chapel Hill, respectively.
Oregon still has a chance to host a super regional, but would need to win its regional and have one of the Sooners, Huskers or Crusaders to knock the Tar Heels out of theirs.
Start times for the Eugene regional’s games have yet to be announced, but Oregon will open postseason play against Utah Valley on Friday, May 30 at PK Park.