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The BYU Cougars baseball team will open its first NCAA Tournament run since 2002 against one of the blue bloods of the sport.
The Cougars were slotted as the 3-seed of the Stanford Regional on Monday, where theyll face the 2-seed Cal State-Fullerton Titans, winners of four national championships.
Notable for BYU is the fact that all of the other 15 regionals in the tournament will begin on Friday, but given that the Cougars dont play on Sundays, their four-team pod will start play on Thursday.
Also in the regional is the top-seeded Cardinal (eighth seed nationally) and the 4-seed Sacramento State Hornets.