Road to Omaha: Big West Champion Cal Poly is in LA Regional, UCSB headed to Austin Regional

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) - Back-to-back Big West Tournament champion Cal Poly (36-22) will drive down the 101 freeway to begin the NCAA Regionals as the Mustangs get the #3 seed in the Los Angeles Regional. They open against Virginia Tech (30-24) on Friday at 5 p.m. Pacific Time. The other two teams in that region are host and #1 overall UCLA (51-6) and Saint Mary's (34-25).

Meanwhile UCSB (38-18) gets an at-large berth out of the Big West and the Gauchos are in the Austin Regional where they will open against Tarleton State (37-19) on Friday, 3 p.m. Pacific Time. The other two teams in the regional are host Texas (40-13) and Holy Cross (25-28).

This is a double-elimination format with the winner of each 4-team regional advancing to the Super Regionals. There are 16 regionals.

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