Pac-12 Conference baseball tournament explained

Pac-12 Conference baseball tournament
Sport:Baseball
Conference:Pac-12 Conference
Number Of Teams:9
Format:Pool Play & Single Elimination
Current Stadium:Scottsdale Stadium
Current Location:Scottsdale, Arizona
Years:2022
Most Recent:2024
Current Champion Label:Current Champion
Current Champion:Arizona (1)
Most Championships:Arizona, Oregon & Stanford (1)
Television:Pac-12 Network
ESPN2
Website:https://web.archive.org/web/20220424122512/https://pac-12.com/baseball/tournament
Sponsors:Gatorade
GEICO
Jockey
New York Life
Pacific Premier Bank
TicketSmarter
REPREVE
Paycor
All Stadiums:Scottsdale Stadium (2022−2024)
All Locations:Scottsdale, Arizona (2022−2024)

The Pac-12 Conference baseball tournament was the conference tournament in baseball for the Pac-12 Conference. It is a pool-play tournament with a four-team knockout bracket, and seeding is based on Pac-12 regular season standings. The winner receives the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Division I baseball tournament.[1] [2]

The Pac-12 was one of the few conferences to not host a conference tournament at the end of the regular season. After several years of consideration, the tournament will begin in 2022.[3]

Tournament

The Pac-12 Baseball tournament is a pool-play tournament with a four-team knockout bracket, which was held at Scottsdale Stadium in Scottsdale, Arizona from 2022 to 2024. Since 2023, nine of the 11 Pac-12 schools which field baseball teams qualify for the tournament. (Colorado does not field a team). The winner earns the Pac-12's guaranteed bid to the NCAA Tournament.

On October 20, 2022 the Pac-12 announced it would change the format from a double-elimination tournament by expanding the field to nine teams & switching to pool play.[4] There are three teams in each pool, with each team playing two games in pool play. Pool play takes place on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, with three games per day. Each pool plays a round-robin. The three pool winners advance to the Friday single-elimination semifinals along with one Wild Card team. The Wild Card is determined by the best record of the non-advancing teams. Any tiebreaker is awarded to the highest seeded team. The semifinal matchups pit the highest seed team against the lowest seeded team on one side with the second highest seed and second lowest seed on the other. Teams from the same pool however do not play each other in the semifinals.

Pool A includes seeds #1, #6 and #9 with Pool B made up of seeds #2, #5, and #8. Seeds #3, #4 and #7 compete in Pool C. With every team in the tournament guaranteed two games, teams advancing to Saturday's title game play four games.

Champions

Year School Site MVP
Garret Forrester, Oregon State
2023Scottsdale Stadium • Scottsdale, Arizona Chase Davis, Arizona
Scottsdale Stadium • Scottsdale, Arizona Mason White, Arizona

By school

SchoolChampionshipsYears
Oregon12023
Stanford12022
Arizona12024
Arizona State0
California0
Oregon State0
UCLA0
USC0
Utah0
Washington0
Washington State0

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Pac-12 announces creation of Pac-12 Baseball Tournament in partnership with the City of Scottsdale and The Arizona Sports & Entertainment Commission. https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220129/https://pac-12.com/article/2021/08/25/pac-12-announces-creation-pac-12-baseball-tournament-partnership-city-scottsdale . 2022-01-29 . live. Pac-12 Conference. August 25, 2021. January 29, 2022.
  2. Web site: Pac-12 baseball tournament created with city of Scottsdale and The Arizona Sports & Entertainment Commission. NCAA. August 25, 2021. January 29, 2022.
  3. Web site: New for 2022: Pac-12 Baseball Tourney at Scottsdale Stadium. https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220129/https://ballparkdigest.com/2021/08/27/new-for-2022-pac-12-baseball-tourney-at-scottsdale-stadium/ . 2022-01-29 . live. Ballpark Digest. August 27, 2021. January 29, 2022. Kevin Reichard.
  4. Web site: Pac-12 announces change to Pac-12 Baseball Tournament format . https://web.archive.org/web/20221020200727/https://pac-12.com/article/2022/10/18/pac-12-announces-change-pac-12-baseball-tournament-format. dead. October 20, 2022.