The Oregon State Beavers earned a No. 15 national seed and will host the Corvallis Regional this week beginning Friday against Tulane.

The Oregon State Beavers’ College World Series chase will open in Corvallis and travel through Lexington, Kentucky.

The Beavers on Monday landed a No. 15 national seed in the 64-team NCAA baseball tournament in a regional opposite No. 2 seed Kentucky, setting the two college baseball powers on a collision course for the super regionals.

Oregon State was awarded the No. 1 seed in the Corvallis Regional, joining UC Irvine, Nicholls State and Tulane in the four-team double-elimination event that runs Friday through Monday. The winner will face the winner of the Lexington Regional for a berth to the College World Series.

The Pac-12 has three representatives in the 64-team field, tied for fifth-most with the Big Ten. In addition to Oregon State, Arizona earned a No. 13 national seed and will host the Tucson Regional, and Oregon earned a No. 3 seed at Santa Barbara Regional.

UC Irvine and Nicholls State will play the Corvallis Regional opener on Friday at 1 p.m. at Goss Stadium; Oregon State and Tulane will follow with a 6 p.m. matchup on ESPNU.

The Beavers (42-14) earned a national seed with a consistent and often dominant season, during which they finished second in the Pac-12 — one-half game behind No. 13 seed Arizona — were ranked among the top six for 12 weeks and closed with an 8-2 record in their final 10 regular season games. OSU boasts one of the deepest and most prodigious lineups in college baseball, led by Golden Spikes Award semifinalist Travis Bazzana, and enters the regionals tied for 11th nationally in homers (111) and 17th in scoring (8.8 runs per game).

The Beavers are hosting a regional for the 12th time in school history and first since 2022, when they won the four-team tournament to advance to the Corvallis Super Regional. Oregon State owns a 27-7 all-time record in regional games played at Goss Stadium.

UC Irvine, the No. 2 seed, figures to be the Beavers’ stiffest competition in the Corvallis Regional. The Anteaters (43-12) finished second in the Big West Conference and were thought to be a potential national seed late in the regular season. No. 3 seed Nicholls State (38-20), which features talented sophomore right-hander Jacob Mayers, finished second in the Southland Conference. No. 4 seed Tulane, meanwhile, earned a trip to the tournament with a walk-off win over Wichita State in the American Athletic Conference championship game, scoring an automatic berth thanks to Jackson Linn’s solo home run in the bottom of the ninth.

Oregon State and Tulane are meeting for the fourth time and will compete in the same regional for the second consecutive season — they landed at the Baton Rouge Regional last season but did not play. The teams last faced each other in 2005 at the College World Series.

The NCAA baseball tournament field is littered with teams from the SEC and ACC. A tournament-record 11 SEC teams were awarded berths, including five of the top seven national seeds: No. 1 Tennessee, No. 2 Kentucky, No. 3 Texas A&M, No. 5 Arkansas and No. 7 Georgia. Eight ACC teams made the field, including five national seeds: No. 4 North Carolina, No. 6 Clemson, No. 8 Florida State and No. 10 NC State and No. 12 Virginia.