SAN DIEGO — After winning the WCC regular season championship, and the conference tournament the San Diego Toreros punched their ticket to the NCAA tournament where they will face off against the Oregon Ducks.
The Toreros' NCAA Regional berth marks the 10th time in program history that USD has appeared in a regional after also doing so in 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, and 2022.
USD's most recent postseason appearance (2022) took place at Oregon State in the NCAA Corvallis Regional at Goss Stadium.
The Toreros opened the event with a signature win over perennial powerhouse Vanderbilt, beating the Commodores 3-2 before eventually falling to host No. 4 Oregon State and Vanderbilt in a rematch. USD's big win over Vanderbilt in 2022 marked its first NCAA Tournament victory since 2013.
Oregon and San Diego played four-game series against one another in both 2022 and 2023. In 2022, USD opened up its schedule against the Ducks and took three of four at Fowler Park, finding itself two innings away from a four-game sweep with an 11-9 eighth-inning lead that slipped away in the Monday finale. The next installment of the series went to Oregon, with San Diego dropping all four games at PK Park in Eugene from March 2, 2023 through March 5, 2023. Overall, USD is 5-11 against UO all-time.
After securing the seventh WCC Regular-Season Championship in program history (and a first-round WCC Tournament BYE) earlier this month, top-seeded San Diego swept its way through the 2024 WCC Tournament at Las Vegas Ballpark last week, taking home the league's tournament title and spot in the postseason for the third time ever by beating four-seed Gonzaga 10-7 on Thursday in the second round before taking down two-seed Portland in back-to-back games (third round and championship) by scores of 7-5 and 8-6.
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