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11 2015-16 PAC-12 YEAR IN REVIEW BASEBALL 2016 FINAL PAC-12 BASEBALL CONFERENCE STANDINGS CONFERENCE OVERALL W L Pct. GB W L Pct. L10 Streak Utah*^ 19 11 .633 - 26 29 .473 6-4 L2 Washington^ 17 13 .567 2 33 23 .589 5-5 L1 Arizona# 16 14 .533 3 49 24 .671 7-3 L2 Oregon State 16 14 .533 3 35 19 .648 6-4 W4 Arizona State^ 16 14 .533 3 36 23 .610 5-5 L1 Stanford 15 15 .500 4 31 23 .574 6-4 W3 USC 15 15 .500 4 28 28 .500 6-4 W2 California 14 16 .467 5 32 21 .604 7-3 W2 Oregon 14 16 .467 5 29 26 .527 5-5 L3 UCLA 12 18 .400 7 25 31 .446 2-8 L4 Washington State 11 19 .367 8 19 35 .352 3-7 L2 * Confrence Champion; ^ NCAA Regional; # NCAA College World Series NCAA BASEBALL CHAMPIONSHIPS RESULTS (70th Annual) (Pac-12 Teams only) NCAA REGIONALS Double elimination Lafayette Regional (hosted by Louisiana-Lafayette) June 3: Arizona 7, Sam Houston State 3 June 5: Louisiana-Lafayette 10, Arizona 3 June 5: Arizona 6, Sam Houston State 5 June 6: Arizona 6, Louisiana-Lafayette 3 June 6: Arizona 3, Louisiana-Lafayette 1 Fort Worth Regional (hosted by TCU) June 3: Gonzaga 5, Arizona State 1 June 4: Arizona State 4, Oral Roberts 1 June 5: Arizona State 6, Gonzaga 3 June 5: TCU 8, Arizona State 1 Oxford Regional (hosted by Ole Miss) June 3: Utah 6, Ole Miss 5 (10) June 4: Boston College 4, Utah 3 June 5: Tulane 4, Utah 1 Nashville Regional (hosted by Vanderbilt) June 3: UC Santa Barbara 3, Washington 2 (14) June 4: Washington 9, Vanderbilt 8 June 5: Xavier 7, Washington 5 NCAA SUPER REGIONALS Best of three series Starkville Super Regional (hosted by Mississippi State) June 10: Arizona 1, Mississippi State 0 June 11: Arizona 6, Mississippi State 5 (11) NCAA COLLEGE WORLD SERIES Double Elimination June 18: Arizona 5, Miami (Fla.) 1 June 20: Oklahoma State 1, Arizona 0 June 22: Arizona 3, UC Santa Barbara 0 June 24: Arizona 9, Oklahoma State 3 June 25: Arizona 5, Oklahoma State 1 NCAA COLLEGE WORLD SERIES FINAL Best of three series June 27: Arizona 3, Coastal Carolina 0 June 28: Coastal Carolina 5, Arizona 4 June 30: Coastal Carolina 4, Arizona 3 Pac-12 Champions for the first time in program history, Utah had a remarkable run in league play, with a record of 19-11 (26-29 over- all) to clinch the Pac-12's automatic berth into the NCAA Championships. The Utes became the first team since Stanford in 1993 and 1994 to finish in last place in the Conference then the following year win the league title. Utah made its first postseason appearance since 2009. Four Pac-12 baseball teams earned berths to the 2016 NCAA Baseball Championship. UTAH was joined by ARIZONA, ARIZONA STATE and WASH- INGTON who earned at-large selections. Arizona made a run at its fifth national title as it reached the College World Series championship series in Omaha, but came up short to Coastal Carolina. Arizona was ranked No. 2 in the final polls by both Baseball America and USA Today (coaches poll). It's the highest ranking for the Wildcats since 2012 when they captured the national title. Collegiate Baseball also featured Arizona at No. 2 in its final top-30, along with WASH- INGTON (No. 22) and ARIZONA STATE (No. 29). CALIFORNIA's Brett Cumberland was voted Pac-12 Player of the Year, while OREGON STATE's Logan Ice was tabbed Pac-12 Defen- sive Player of the Year. Fellow Beaver Nick Madrigal was named Pac-12 Freshman of the Year while WASHINGTON's Troy Rallings was voted Pac-12 Pitcher of the Year. UTAH head coach Bill Kinneberg was named Pac-12 Coach of the Year. USC's David Oppenheim was crowned the Pac-12 Batting Champion with a Conference-leading .387 batting average. Nick Halamandaris of California was named the Pac-12 Scholar- Athlete of the Year. Rallings was an All-American in all four publications and was a finalist for NCBWA Stopper of the Year. OREGON outfielder Austin Grebeck earned a spot on the nine-man ABCA Gold Glove team. In the 2016 MLB Draft, every Pac-12 school had at least one student-athlete drafted: Arizona (6), Arizona State (5); California (7), Or- egon (5), Oregon State (5), Stanford (4), UCLA (5), USC (12), Utah (1), Washington (3) and Washington State (3). ASU leads all NCAA schools with 414 total MLB draft picks, and at least one Sun Devil has been drafted every year since the draft's inception in 1965.