Time, how to watch Oregon baseball’s Santa Barbara Regional game against San Diego

Oregon baseball will compete in the NCAA Tournament for the fourth consecutive season and will begin play Friday in the Santa Barbara Regional.

The Ducks (37-18, 19-11 Pac-12) earned an at-large berth into the tournament after a strong regular season, but are coming off an 0-2 record and a pool play exit in the Pac-12 Tournament last week in Scottsdale.

Last season, the Ducks ran all the way to the Super Regional round before falling just a win shy of the College World Series.

“The stuff that they experienced last year should naturally rub off on others that didn’t experience that last year or even the previous year or two years,” Oregon coach Mark Wasikowski said. “It’s not really something you can plan out. It’s something that those kids gather, something unique each one of them and then they bring to the team and locker room with what they learned and experienced.”

Oregon will open the regional round as the No. 3 seed in their pod against No. 2 seed San Diego, the winners of the West Coast Conference. Depending on how the games go on Friday, the Ducks will either play host Santa Barbara – the No. 14 overall seed in the entire tournament – or fourth seed Fresno State on Saturday.

The double elimination regional round means the Ducks have to lose twice to be knocked out, and they are very familiar with both the host Gauchos and nearby Toreros.

Oregon lost a three-game series with the Gauchos back in March, dropping the first two games before firing back to take the finale. Santa Barbara’s coach, Andrew Checketts, is a former Oregon assistant and pitching coach from 2008-10 and graduated from West Linn High School in 1994.

“You look back and run through scouting reports on what they pitched to you in the past and what their pitchers did,” Oregon outfielder Bryce Boettcher said of a potential rematch with the Gauchos. “But it’s later in the season and it’s obviously a new series, so you definitely learn from it, but we’ve got to come out hot this weekend.”

Before any potential matchup with Santa Barbara the Ducks will have to get through San Diego, who they played last year and the year before.

After two disappointing losses in the Pac-12 Tournament last week, Oregon is focused on attacking each day rather than what could be down the line.

“We’ve got to stay on it and go for it,” Oregon pitcher Kevin Seitter said. “We know that this team’s success runs through us, and we take a lot of pride in that. We’re sweating the details every single day, and today is the most important day so we’re going to crush it.”

What channel is Oregon baseball’s Santa Barbara Regional game against San Diego?

Who are the announcers for Oregon baseball’s Santa Barbara Regional game against San Diego?

• Broadcast team: Mark Neely and Greg Swindell

What time is Oregon baseball’s Santa Barbara Regional game against San Diego?

• Date: Friday, May 31
• Start time: Noon

Alec Dietz covers University of Oregon football, volleyball, women’s basketball and baseball for The Register-Guard. You may reach him at adietz@registerguard.com and you can follow him on X @AlecDietz.