We are now entering the middle stretch of the USC baseball season. 27 games in, the Trojans sit at 16-11 overall and 6-6 in Big Ten play. Earlier this week, Baseball America released its early projected field for the 2025 NCAA Tournament. The Trojans narrowly missed the cut, being listed as one of the “first four teams out”.
If USC can improve in April and May, the Trojans have a legitimate shot to make the NCAA Tournament. The Trojans have not made the tournament since 2015. They came close in each of Andy Stankiewicz’s first two seasons as head coach, arguably getting hosed out of an at-large bid by the selection committee in 2023, and then losing the Pac-12 Tournament championship game to Arizona on a walk-off last year when a victory would have given them an automatic berth.
This weekend, the Trojans were on the road for a three-game series at Indiana. USC took the first game of the series 10-5 on Friday afternoon before losing the second game but then bouncing back to win the series finale and take two of three. The month of April needs to be the point in the season when USC decides what kind of team it is ... and provide the right answer.
This article originally appeared on Trojans Wire: USC baseball listed as one of first four teams out of NCAA Tournament
