Arizona was safely in the 2025 NCAA Baseball Tournament, and ASU learned Monday it snuck in from the bubble to end the longest drought in program history. The Wildcats won the Big 12 Championship to punch their ticket on Saturday, but they were left waiting to see if they’d host a regional. A Tucson regional did not come, and Arizona will instead begin its tournament journey in the Eugene regional where former Pac-12 foe Oregon is the host. Arizona knocked off top-seed West Virginia and 3-seed TCU in its conference tournament run and will now get a crack at national 12-seed Oregon. Utah Valley and Cal Poly make up the rest of the grouping. ASU entered the day on the “Last Four In” line, per D1 Baseball , and its appearance marked the first for coach Willie Bloomquist in his fourth season. It also ended the longest drought in program history after it hadn’t made the field since 2021. The Sun Devils find themselves in the Los Angeles regional hosted by UCLA, another former Pac-12 foe. They split a two-game set with the national 15-seed Bruins in February. Fresno State and UC Irvine join them in L.A.
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