Entering the tournament. Beating them twice will be a monumental task as no team has beaten them twice this year and they have only lost 4 weekend games on the season, but they haven’t been a juggernaut down the stretch. In the last 21 games they have played since mid/late April, here is a rundown of some positives for us: - lost their star pitcher to arm fatigue and he won’t be pitching in the regional. - They have only scored in double digits 4 times and none in last 9 games. - Only have 2 wins by more than 5 runs. - They are only 4-2 in their last two home series and one of the series was against a weak team (CS Sacramento) in which they scored the same amount of runs across the whole series. - The home series before their last two was against Minnesota and while they swept them, it wasn’t particularly dominant…winning 4-2, 6-4 and 5-2. - One of their star hitters (Will Gasparino) has 19 home runs on the year but has only hit 2 in his last 17 games. All that is to say they are definitely not invincible and even though we likely won’t pull out two wins against them (maybe not even one), I fully expect us to give them tough game(s) and could certainly surprise them if we play with the type of confidence we have down the stretch.

We won 2/3 vs Rutgers. UCLA early season was beating same SEC teams in Arlington that crushed us. But I don’t see them as a massively tough offense. With a good outing one of our top 3 starters can keep us right in it IMO We e played GT & UNC so we’ve seen similar teams. Don’t think UCLA is as good as either of them honestly ** Edited by hokiepro at 5/28/2026, 9:37:57 AM