Arizona doesn’t need to win its Pac-12 Tournament opener on Wednesday morning against Oregon in order to secure a spot in the NCAA tourney, but it wouldn’t hurt.
The Wildcats remain firmly in the field according to the latest projection by D1Baseball, which has them headed to Louisville as a No. 3 regional seed and facing off against Vanderbilt in a rematch of their College World Series clash last June.
Arizona (35-21) is unofficially one of the last 11 teams in the tourney, as that’s the number of regional No. 3 seeds that aren’t projected to win automatic bids.