The Missouri baseball team will head to its eighth NCAA Tournament Regional in 10 seasons, but it is going as an automatic qualifier for the first time in that stretch after winning last week's Big 12 Tournament in Oklahoma City.
Action at the Regional will get underway for the fourth-seeded Tigers on Friday at 10 p.m. (CT) as they will play top-seeded Arizona.
Joining Mizzou and Arizona in the four-team regional are No. 2 seed Louisville and No. 3 seed New Mexico State.
This is the 22nd NCAA Tournament appearance for Mizzou.
Missouri is 0-3 all-time against Arizona, with the last meeting - a 5-3 Zona win - coming back in 2005 at the Fullerton Regional.
That was the first meeting for the two schools since 1976. In 1976, Arizona won, 10-1, in the NCAA Regional round and the only other meeting came in 1963 when Arizona won, 6-4.
The Tigers are 1-0 all-time against New Mexico State (a 2-0 win in 1985) while the Tigers are 1-2 against Louisville after the two teams played three games in Columbia back in the regional round in 2007.
Mizzou won the first game of that series, 7-5, before falling, 4-3, and 16-6 in the next game.
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