Arizona Wildcat Baseball earned one of the final at-large bids, and will play in the upcoming NCAA Tournament.
Chip Hale's team will play TCU in its first game of the Fayetteville Regional.
"I mean, they won their conference tournament. We know their coaches very well, we know their personnel pretty well, and they got some kids from Arizona. They are going to be a tough team to play," Hale said after the NCAA Selection Show.
The University of Arkansas is also hosting Santa Clara, who the Razorbacks will play in their first game. Arkansas is the tournament's No. 3 overall seed.
The Wildcats just missed an automatic bid when they lost to Oregon, 5-4, in the finals of the Pac-12 Tournament.
"A lot of guys were really down after that game. I said, 'Get your heads up; we are a deserving team; the committee will see this." They will see our last ten games and how well we played in the tournament." I mean, obviously, it came down to the last region that we found out we got in, so the guys were just ecstatic."
Arizona, the 8th seed in the conference tournament, went on a hot streak and won three conference games to reach the finals.
It is the 42nd time the Wildcats are participating in the NCAA Tournament.
