With Arizona softball on the bubble for a top-8 national seed, head coach Mike Candrea isn’t downplaying the significance of this weekend’s series at No. 12 Oregon.
“If you’re a competitor, you know right now that we need to go there, we need to play well, we need to win,” he said. “There’s no ifs, ands or buts.”
The Wildcats probably need to go something like 4-4 over their final eight regular-season games to earn a top-8 seed in the NCAA Tournament, which would mean the right to host Regionals and Super Regionals, the easiest path to the Women’s College World Series.