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Six Pac-12 Baseball Teams Get Postseason Bids, But Cal Doesn't

Three Pac-12 teams get No. 1 seeds in the 16 baseball postseason regionals, which were announced Monday. Cal, which finished seventh in the conference, was not even among the first four out.
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Six Pac-12 Baseball Teams Get Postseason Bids, But Cal Doesn't
Six Pac-12 Baseball Teams Get Postseason Bids, But Cal Doesn't

Six Pac-12 teams received berths in the 64-team NCAA postseason tournament, and three of them got No. 1 seeds in their four-team regionals. But Cal was not one of the 64 teams that got bids, which were announced on Monday.

The six Pac-12 representatives in the field are Arizona, Stanford, Oregon, UCLA, Oregon State and Arizona State.

Arizona, Stanford and Oregon will host regionals and are No. 1 seeds in their four-team groups. All six of the Pac-12 schools that are in the field are seeded either first or second in one of the 16 regionals, which begin play on Friday.

Cal went 29-26 overall and wound up in seventh place in the Pac-12 at 15-15, just one game behind postseason qualifiers Oregon State and Arizona State. However, Cal apparently was not that close to getting a bid, because it was not one of the first four teams that did not make the field, as revealed during Monday’s election show.

The last four at-large teams to make it were UC Santa Barbara, Michigan, North Carolina and Alabama.

Former Stanford pitcher Kyle Peterson mentioned during the selection show that he was surprised Alabama received a berth. The Crimson Tide is 31-24 overall and went 12-17 in the Southeastern Conference, which left Alabama in fifth place in the seven-team SEC West.

The SEC got nine berths in the postseason, the Atlantic Coast Conference was next with eight, and the Pac-12 third with six.

Pac-12 champion Arizona was the highest-seeded Pac-12 team at No. 5 overall.

Arizona’s regional includes Grand Canyon, UC Santa Barbara and Oklahoma State.

Stanford is seeded No. 9 overall and its regional includes North Dakota State, Nevada and UC Irvine.

Oregon, the No. 14 overall seed, will host a regional that features Central Connecticut, LSU and Gonzaga.

UCLA is the No. 2 seed in the Lubbock, Texas, regional, where the No. 1 seed and host is TCU and also includes Army and North Carolina.

Arizona State is the No. 2 seed in the Austin, Texas, regional, where Texas, the No. 2 overall seed, is the regional No. 1 seed. Southern and Fairfield are also in that regional.

Oregon State is the No. 2 seed in the TCU regional, where the Horned Frogs are the No. 1 seeds. McNeese and Dallas Baptist are the other two teams in the region.

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JAKE CURTIS

Jake Curtis worked in the San Francisco Chronicle sports department for 27 years, covering virtually every sport, including numerous Final Fours, several college football national championship games, an NBA Finals, world championship boxing matches and a World Cup. He was a Cal beat writer for many of those years, and won awards for his feature stories.

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