2020 Pac-12 Baseball Standings Upcoming
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For Immediate Release // Wednesday, February 12, 2020 PAC-12 SEASON Contact // Nicole Mitchell ([email protected]) PREVIEW Pac-12 Baseball is back in ac- 2020 PAC-12 BASEBALL STANDINGS tion as all 11 programs open the 2020 season this Friday. The PAC-12 OVERALL USAT Conference is looking to build W L Pct. GB W L Pct. L10 Streak Poll off last season’s success when its teams combined to record Arizona 0 0 .--- - 0 0 .--- - - RV a 187-110-1 (.629) non-con- Arizona State 0 0 .--- - 0 0 .--- - - 13 ference record, earning the California 0 0 .--- - 0 0 .--- - - - league’s most non-conference Oregon 0 0 .--- - 0 0 .--- - - - wins since 2015 (189). Five Oregon State 0 0 .--- - 0 0 .--- - - 25 Pac-12 teams earned 2019 Stanford 0 0 .--- - 0 0 .--- - - 15 NCAA Regional berths, also the UCLA 0 0 .--- - 0 0 .--- - - 8 most for the league since 2016, including ARIZONA STATE and USC 0 0 .--- - 0 0 .--- - - - CALIFORNIA which reached Utah 0 0 .--- - 0 0 .--- - - - postseason play for the first Washington 0 0 .--- - 0 0 .--- - - - time since 2016 and 2015, re- Washington State 0 0 .--- - 0 0 .--- - - - spectively. The Conference’s 104th sea- son on the diamond begins on UPCOMING SCHEDULE Valentine’s Day with four new skippers in OREGON’s Mark Friday, February 14 Sunday, February 16 Wasikowski, OREGON STATE’s New Mexico vs. #25 OREGON STATE (1) ....12:00 p.m. PT Pepperdine vs. OREGON (2) ...................... 10:00 a.m. PT Mitch Canham, USC’s Jason UTAH at UC Davis ........................................2:00 p.m. PT Villanova at #13 ARIZONA STATE ............... 11:30 a.m. PT Gill and WASHINGTON STATE’s Albany at ARIZONA ......................................5:00 p.m. PT Albany at ARIZONA ....................................12:00 p.m. PT Brian Green. Canham was an Villanova at #13 ARIZONA STATE ................ 5:30 p.m. PT Gonzaga vs. #25 OREGON STATE (1) .........12:00 p.m. PT All-American catcher for a Bea- CALIFORNIA at Long Beach State ................6:00 p.m. PT Western Michigan at USC ...........................12:00 p.m. PT vers’ program that went to three UC Riverside at #8 UCLA ..............................6:00 p.m. PT WASHINGTON STATE at CSU Bakersfield ...12:00 p.m. PT straight College World Series Western Michigan at USC .............................6:00 p.m. PT CALIFORNIA at Long Beach State ................1:00 p.m. PT from 2005-07, while Wasikow- WASHINGTON at Loyola Marymount ............6:00 p.m. PT Cal State Fullerton at #15 STANFORD ..........1:00 p.m. PT ski (Purdue), Gill (LMU) and WASHINGTON STATE at CSU Bakersfield .....6:00 p.m. PT UC Riverside at #8 UCLA ..............................1:00 p.m. PT Green (New Mexico State) all Cal State Fullerton at #15 STANFORD ..........6:05 p.m. PT WASHINGTON at Loyola Marymount ............1:00 p.m. PT took their previous programs OREGON vs. Minnesota (2) ..........................6:30 p.m. PT UTAH at UC Davis ........................................1:00 p.m. PT to the NCAA postseason within the last two seasons. Saturday, February 15 Villanova at #13 ARIZONA STATE ............... 11:00 a.m. PT Monday, February 17 The USA Today Preseason Gonzaga vs. #25 OREGON STATE (1) ...........1:00 p.m. PT Minnesota vs. ARIZONA (3) ........................ 10:00 a.m. PT Coaches Poll features four Pac- UTAH at UC Davis ........................................1:00 p.m. PT BYU vs. OREGON STATE (1) ........................1:00 p.m. PT 12 teams. 2019 Pac-12 Cham- WASHINGTON STATE at CSU Bakersfield .....1:00 p.m. PT UTAH at Saint Mary’s (California) ..................2:00 p.m. PT pion UCLA leads the way at No. UC Riverside at #8 UCLA ..............................2:00 p.m. PT WASHINGTON STATE at CSUN ....................2:00 p.m. PT 8, followed by Arizona State at Western Michigan at USC .............................2:00 p.m. PT CALIFORNIA at UC Santa Barbara ................5:30 p.m. PT No. 13, STANFORD at No. 15, Cal State Fullerton at #15 STANFORD ..........2:05 p.m. PT and Oregon State at No. 25. CALIFORNIA at Long Beach State ................3:00 p.m. PT Tuesday, February 18 San Diego vs. OREGON (2) ...........................4:30 p.m. PT OREGON at Grand Canyon ...........................1:00 p.m. PT Arizona State was picked to Albany at ARIZONA ......................................5:00 p.m. PT #17 Oklahoma State at #13 ARIZONA STATE ...5:30 p.m. PT capture the league’s title this #11 Michigan at #13 ARIZONA STATE .........5:00 p.m. PT Loyola Marymount at #8 UCLA .....................6:00 p.m. PT season in the Pac-12 Baseball WASHINGTON at Loyola Marymount ............6:00 p.m. PT #15 STANFORD at Santa Clara .....................6:00 p.m. PT Coaches Preseason Poll for the WASHINGTON at Long Beach State..............6:00 p.m. PT fourth time in program history, first since winning the Confer- (1) Sanderson Ford College Baseball Classic, Surprise, Ariz. ence crown in 2010. Reigning (2) Angels College Classic, Tempe, Ariz. league champ UCLA was vot- (3) Tempe, Ariz. ed second, and Stanford was picked third. ASU will face a pair of top-20 oppenents this week in No. 11 Michigan and No. 17 Oklahoma State. 1 2020 PAC-12 BASEBALL // PAC-12 CONFERENCE RANKINGS PAC-12 NOTES USA Today Top 25 Coaches Poll STAR POWER: (Preseason) The Pac-12 has nine total preseason All-America selections from three different schools. Four student-athletes were 1. Vanderbilt named to all five preseason All-America lists, including Arizona’s Austin Wells, Arizona State’s Spencer Torkelson, 2. Louisville and UCLA’s Holden Powell and Garrett Mitchell. Junior infielder Torkelson was selected first team for all five lists, 3. Texas Tech and was also named the 2020 Collegiate Baseball Projected Player of the Year. Juniors pitchers Erik Tolman of 4. Georgia 5. Arkansas Arizona State and UCLA’s Powell were selected to NCBWA Stopper of the Year Preseason Watch List 6. Mississippi State 7. Miami BACK-TO-BACK GOLDEN SPIKES: 8. UCLA The Pac-12 is home to nine Golden Spikes Award winners, leading all other conferences, after former Beaver Adley 9. Auburn Rutschman claimed the league’s second-consecutive award last season. Since 1978, USA Baseball has honored 10. Florida the top amateur baseball player in the nation with this award, given each year to the player who best exhibits excep- 11. Michigan tional on-field ability and exemplary sportsmanship. 12. Louisiana State 13. Arizona State 14. Florida State The 2020 Golden Spikes Award Preseason watch list will be announced on Thursday, Feb. 13 at 12:30 p.m. PT. The 15. Stanford list features 55 of the nation’s top amateur players. The 43rd Golden Spikes Award will be presented on Thursday, 16. North Carolina June 11th on ESPN. 17. Oklahoma State 18. North Carolina State STOPPER OF THE YEAR: 19. East Carolina The Pac-12 has two student-athletes on the 2020 NCBWA Preseason Watch List, including 2019 NCBWA Stopper 20. Duke of the Year UCLA’s Holden Powell and sophomore Erik Tolman of Arizona State. The NCBWA presents the Stopper 21. Texas A&M 22. Georgia Tech of the Year Award to the top relief pitcher in Division I baseball for the 16th straight year at the College World Series 23. Mississippi on Saturday, June 13, 2020. 24. Wake Forest 25. Oregon State MLB DRAFT Seventy Pac-12 student-athletes were selected in the 2019 MLS Draft, including former Oregon State catcher Baseball America Top 25 Poll Adley Rutschman who was selected with the No. 1 overall pick byt the Baltimore Orioles, giving the Conference an (Preseason) NCAA-best seven No. 1 overall draft-picks. For the eighth-straight year, all 11 league programs had at least one 1. Vanderbilt player drafted. Additionally, the Pac-12 averaged 6.36 student-athletes drafted per team, the best average of any 2. Louisville 3. Arizona State conference. The Conference had three picks in the top 10 for the first time since 2006 with California’s Andrew 4. Florida Vaughn being selected with the third pick and Arizona State’s Hunter Bishop chosen with the 10th pick. UCLA’s 13 5. Miami (FL) selections are tied for the most of any school in the nation. After UCLA, Stanford had the second-most picks in the 6. Texas Tech Pac-12 with nine, followed by California, Oregon State and USC with seven selections apiece. 7. Georgia 8. Michigan 9. Mississippi State 10. UCLA 11. Arkansas 12. Florida State 13. Auburn 14. LSU NATIONAL HONORS 15. Duke 16. Oklahoma State Collegiate Baseball Preseason Perfect Game Preseason NCBWA Preseason 17. NC State All-Americans All-Americans All-Americans 18. North Carolina 19. Oklahoma 20. Wake Forest First Team First Team First Team 21. Georgia Tech Holden Powell, RHP, UCLA Spencer Torkelson, 1B, ASU Spencer Torkelson, 1B, ASU 22. Arizona 23. Dallas Baptist Spencer Torkelson, 1B, ASU Garrett Mitchell, OF, UCLA Garrett Mitchell, OF, UCLA 24. Ohio State Holden Powell. RP, UCLA Matthew Dyer, DH, ARIZ 25. East Carolina Second Team Holden Powell, RP, UCLA Jake Mulholland, LHP, OSU Second Team D1Baseball.com Top 25 (Preseason) Austin Wells, C, ARIZ Austin Wells, C, ARIZ Third Team 1. Louisville Garrett Mitchell, OF, UCLA Alika Williams, SS, ASU Austin Wells, C, ARIZ 2. Vanderbilt Trevor Hauver, OF, ASU 3. Miami 4. Florida Collegiate Baseball Projected Baseball America Preseason 5. Georgia Player of the Year All-Americans NCBWA Stopper of the Year 6. Texas Tech Spencer Torkelson, 1B, ASU Preseason Watch List: 7. Arkansas 8. Auburn First Team Holden Powell, Jr , UCLA 9. Arizona State D1Baseball.com Preseason Spencer Torkelson, 1B, ASU Erik Tolman, So., ASU 10. Mississippi State All-Americans Garrett Mitchell, UCLA 11.