2023 Pac-12 Conference baseball tournament

The 2023 Pac-12 Conference baseball tournament will be held from May 23 through 27 at Scottsdale Stadium in Scottsdale, Arizona. It will be the second postseason championship event sponsored by the Pac-12 Conference since 1978. The nine team, pool play tournament winner will earn the league's automatic bid to the 2023 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.[2][3][4]

2023 Pac-12 Conference
baseball tournament
Teams9
Finals site
ChampionsTBD
TelevisionPac-12 Network
ESPN2
2023 Pac-12 Conference baseball standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L T PCTW L T PCT
No. 3 Stanford ‍†‍‍ 21–7–0 .75035–14–0 .714
No. 24 Washington ‍‍‍ 17–10–0 .63033–14–0 .702
No. 10 Oregon State ‍‍‍ 18–12–0 .60037–15–0 .712
USC ‍‍‍ 16–11–0 .59331–20–1 .606
Arizona State ‍‍‍ 15–12–0 .55630–21–0 .588
Oregon ‍‍‍ 14–14–0 .50031–20–0 .608
UCLA ‍‍‍ 11–15–1 .42626–22–1 .541
Washington State ‍‍‍ 10–17–0 .37029–21–0 .580
Arizona ‍‍‍ 10–17–0 .37027–22–0 .551
California ‍‍‍ 10–18–0 .35722–26–0 .458
Utah ‍‍‍ 9–18–1 .33922–29–1 .433
† – Conference champion
‡ – Tournament champion
y – Invited to the NCAA Division I Baseball Championship
As of May 15, 2023[1]
Rankings from D1Baseball

Seeds

This tournament will feature 9 out of 11 teams in this conference (Colorado does not field a baseball team) . There will be three teams in each pool, with each team playing two games in pool play, with the three pool winners & one wild card team advancing to the single elimination finals. The seedings will be determined upon completion of regular season play. The winning percentage of the teams in conference play determined the tournament seedings. There are tiebreakers in place to seed teams with identical conference records.

Seed School Conf. Over. Tiebreaker
#1 Stanford 0–0 0–0
#2 TBD 0–0 0–0
#3 TBD 0–0 0–0
#4 TBD 0–0 0–0
#5 TBD 0–0 0–0
#6 TBD 0–0 0–0
#7 TBD 0–0 0–0
#8 TBD 0–0 0–0
#9 TBD 0–0 0–0

Note: Arizona State, Oregon, Oregon State, USC & Washington have clinched spots. Their seeding is TBD.

Pools composition

There will be three teams in each pool, with each team playing two games in pool play. Teams selected for pool play will be based on final standings in the 2023 Pac-12 Regular Season. The Number 1, 6 & 9 seeds will be placed in pool A. The Number 2, 5 & 8 seeds will be placed in pool B. The Number 3, 4 & 7 seeds will be placed in pool C. The three pools will play a round-robin style tournament with the winners advancing to the Friday single-elimination semifinals along with one Wild Card team. The Wild Card will be determined by the best record of the non-advancing teams. Any tiebreaker will be awarded to the highest seeded team.

Pool A Pool B Pool C
#1 Stanford Cardinal #2 Seed #3 Seed
#6 Seed #5 Seed #4 Seed
#9 Seed #8 Seed #7 Seed
Pool A STAN
1 Stanford
6
9
Pool B
2
5
8
Pool C
3
4
7

Finals
Semifinals May 26 Final May 27
      
1 Pool A/B/C Winner
4 Wild Card Winner
 
 
2 Pool A/B/C Winner
3 Pool A/B/C Winner

Schedule

2023 Bracket[5]

Game Time* Matchup# Score Television Attendance
Pool Play – Wednesday, May 23
1 10:00 a.m. No. 8 vs No. 5 (Pool B) Pac-12 Network
2 2:30 p.m. No. 7 vs No. 4 (Pool C)
3 7:00 p.m. No. 9 vs No. 5 (Pool A)
Pool Play – Thursday, May 24
4 10:00 a.m. No. 8 vs No. 2 (Pool B) Pac-12 Network
5 2:30 p.m. No. 7 vs No. 3 (Pool C)
6 7:00 p.m. No. 9 vs No. 1 Stanford (Pool A)
Pool Play – Friday, May 25
7 10:00 a.m. No. 5 vs No. 2 (Pool B) Pac-12 Network
8 2:30 p.m. No. 4 vs No. 3 (Pool C)
9 7:00 p.m. No. 6 vs No. 1 Stanford (Pool A)
Semifinals – Saturday, May 26
10 2:30 p.m. Pool A/B/C Winner vs Wild Card Winner Pac-12 Network
11 7:00 p.m. Pool A/B/C Winner vs Pool A/B/C Winner
Championship – Sunday, May 27
12 7:00 p.m. Game 10 Winner vs Game 11 Winner ESPNU
*Game times in MST. # – Rankings denote tournament seed.


All-tournament Team

The following players were members of the 2023 Pac-12 Baseball All-Tournament Team. Player in Bold selected as Tournament MVP.

PositionPlayerSchool
C
1B
2B
3B
SS
DH
OF
P

References
  1. "Pac-12 Baseball Standings". pac-12.com. Retrieved May 15, 2023.
  2. "Pac-12 announces creation of Pac-12 Baseball Tournament in partnership with the City of Scottsdale and The Arizona Sports & Entertainment Commission". Pac-12 Conference. August 25, 2021. Archived from the original on 2022-01-29. Retrieved January 29, 2022.
  3. "Pac-12 baseball tournament created with city of Scottsdale and The Arizona Sports & Entertainment Commission". NCAA. August 25, 2021. Retrieved January 29, 2022.
  4. "Pac-12 announces change to Pac-12 Baseball Tournament format".
  5. "2023 PAC-12 Baseball Tournament" (PDF).
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