San Francisco – Pac-12 today announced a change to the format of the Pac-12 Baseball Tournament, expanding the field to nine teams and switching to pool play. In each pool he has 3 teams and each team in pool play he plays 2 games. The 2023 tournament will take place May 23-27, 2023 at Scottsdale Stadium, moving from Tuesday to Saturday.
“The inaugural Pac-12 Baseball Tournament was a huge success and we feel these adjustments will make the event even better for both student-athletes and fans,” said Pac-12 Deputy Commissioner. I was. Teresa Gould“The move to up to three games per day allows us to stagger start times to create the best playing conditions for our student-athletes and the best atmosphere for our fans. Adding a ninth team to the tournament is another. expands the college’s postseason experience while also giving that team the potential to qualify for the NCAA Tournament, helping as many teams as possible to be ready for next weekend’s NCAA Tournament. I can do it.”
Billiards is played on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays with 3 games per day. Each pool plays round robin.
The three pool winners will advance to Friday’s single-elimination semifinals, along with one wildcard team. Wildcards are determined by the team’s best record that has not advanced. Tie-breaks will be awarded to the highest seeded teams.
The semi-final matchup will be between the team with the highest seed and the team with the lowest seed, with the team with the second highest seed and the team with the second lowest seed on opposite sides. However, teams from the same pool will not meet in the semi-finals.
Pool A contains seeds #1, #6, and #9 and pool B consists of seeds #2, #5, and #8. The 3rd, 4th and 7th seeds will compete in Pool C.
| Pool A | Pool B | Pool C | |
|---|---|---|---|
| seed | #1, #6, #9 | #2, #5, #8 | #3, #4, #7 |
Each team in the tournament is guaranteed two games, with the two teams advancing to Saturday’s championship playing four games. All teams will have at least one day off.
Stanford won the first-seeded Pac-12 baseball tournament in 2022 as the first seed, defeating second-seeded Oregon State University, 9-5, in the championship game. The Cardinals outscored their opponents 35-20 in four games.
Clark and Elizabeth Nelson, Stanford’s baseball directors, said: David EskerHas been involved in Pac-12 Baseball for over 30 years as a player and coach. “We have been training and working hard all season heading into the postseason, and adding another team will allow more Pac-12 programs to experience that vibe, and we hope that the NCAA Tournament We can put the meeting in a better position when it starts.”
The tournament will be held over five days at the San Francisco Giants’ spring training home. The top nine teams in the conference standings (based on overall conference play winning percentage) at the end of the regular season qualify for Pac-12 Baseball his tournament, from which the champion advances the conference to his NCAA Tournament. receive automatic bids for Pac-12’s initial agreement with the City of Scottsdale runs until his 2024.
The Pac-12 is finishing the season with five teams, including two regional hosts, earning NCAA Tournament bids. Stanford represented his Pac-12 to the College World Series for the 18th time and his second straight season.
The combined Pac-12 program has won 29 of the 75 NCAA baseball championships, 15 more than the next closest. The league also boasts nine Golden Spikes Award winners, the second-most in history, and has drawn four of the last 12 drafts and two of the last three college players who were the #1 overall picks. He’s set the pace for his peers with eight overall MLB draft picks, including:
USC has 12 NCAA titles, more than any other school in the nation, and ARIZONA STATE is fourth with five. His other four Pac-12 schools have won at least two national titles, including Arizona (4), Oregon State (3), California (2), and Stanford (2). The Pac-12 program accounts for six of his 15 schools that have won multiple college baseball national championships, twice as many schools as him at any other conference.
