Oregon baseball to host NCAA regional in Eugene again
Eugene got another postseason baseball weekend, with PK Park set to host Oregon’s NCAA Regional and the Ducks opening the next step of their run at home.
Another NCAA regional is headed back to PK Park, giving Eugene and Lane County another late-May baseball weekend built around the Ducks, campus traffic and a familiar postseason buzz that has become part of the city’s summer rhythm.
The NCAA announced May 24 that Eugene was one of 16 regional host sites in the Division I baseball championship. Because all 16 hosts were automatically placed in the 64-team field, Oregon entered the bracket as a host with a 40-16 record, and its regional games were scheduled to begin May 29 at PK Park.
For local fans, the return matters beyond the standings. It keeps a major university sports event in town, drawing visitors to the University of Oregon campus, nearby businesses and the city’s sports scene while giving families in Eugene a chance to build another weekend around home games instead of a road trip. The Ducks’ path to Omaha will start in front of a home crowd that has already seen this team handle pressure in a new conference.
Oregon earned the hosting spot after falling 3-2 in 11 innings to top-seeded UCLA in the Big Ten championship game. Before that loss, the Ducks beat Washington and Nebraska in the tournament and finished the season 40-16 overall and 20-10 in Big Ten play. At the time the host sites were announced, Oregon was ranked No. 14 by D1Baseball.
The selection show for the full bracket was set for Monday, May 25, at noon Eastern time on ESPN2, which puts the full field on the board before the Ducks take the field at home. The bracket reveal was also expected to clarify which teams will come through Eugene for the regional.
This was Oregon’s second straight season hosting a regional, the first time the Ducks had done that since 2012-13. They have never hosted three years in a row, which adds weight to a run that has now turned PK Park into a recurring postseason stop.
Last season, Oregon hosted the Eugene Regional as a No. 12 seed but was eliminated at PK Park by Utah Valley and Cal Poly. This time, the Ducks arrived back at home after proving they could stay near the top of a changing national and conference landscape, and Eugene once again found itself at the center of that push toward the College World Series.
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