SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — The UC Santa Barbara Baseball team announced its 2025 schedule on Tuesday. The reigning Big West Champion and 2024 NCAA Regional Host Gauchos will play a 53-game slate leading up to The Big West Championship in this, their 14th season under Head Coach Andrew Checketts. The season features eight games against teams that made the 2024 NCAA Tournament, seven of which will be played in Santa Barbara.
The Gauchos will open their season at home on Valentine’s Day weekend, hosting Campbell for a three-game series, Feb. 14-16, then welcoming Saint Mary’s to town on Tuesday, Feb. 18. Santa Barbara will then make its first road trip of the year, traveling to San Diego to take part in the Tony Gwynn Legacy event, Feb. 21-23. The Gauchos will play Seattle U, San Diego State and California Baptist that weekend, then make a stop in Malibu on Feb. 25 to play at Pepperdine.
As February turns to March, the Gauchos will host Fresno State in a three-game series from Feb. 28-March 2. The Bulldogs were one of the visitors to June’s Santa Barbara Regional, where the Gauchos defeated them, 9-6. After their reunion with Fresno State, Santa Barbara will head to Los Angeles, playing USC for the first time since 2022 on March 4. The Gauchos then open Big West play at home against CSUN, March 7-9, and welcome another Santa Barbara Regional participant back to Caesar Uyesaka Stadium on March 11, hosting the University of San Diego.
On March 14-16, The Gauchos head to Hawai’i to play the Rainbow Warriors, then return home and host another 2024 NCAA Tournament team in UC Irvine, March 21-23. The Gauchos then end the month of March on the road, completing their season series against Saint Mary’s in Moraga on March 25 and playing a three-game set at Long Beach State, March 28-30.
Santa Barbara opens the month of April with a visit to Loyola Marymount on April 1, the first of four games between the Gauchos and Lions this season. The Gauchos are then back at home to host UC Davis, April 4-6, and Pepperdine on April 8. A four-day visit to Riverside comes next, with Santa Barbara playing at UC Riverside April 11-13 and staying in the city to play at California Baptist on April 14.
The Gauchos host the Lancers a week later, on April 21, playing a home series against Cal Poly first, April 17-19. Santa Barbara then makes its second trip to San Diego, playing at UC San Diego, April 25-27, and USD on April 28. A three-game set at Cal State Fullerton, May 2-4, concludes the Gauchos’ longest road trip of the season.
Santa Barbara hosts USC on May 6 before playing their final road game of the year at LMU on May 9. The Gauchos and Lions will then play two more games, May 10 and 11, at Santa Barbara’s Caesar Uyesaka Stadium to conclude the weekend and season series. The Gauchos round out the regular season at home against Cal State Bakersfield, May 15-17, before heading to The Big West Championship at Cal State Fullerton’s Goodwin Field, May 21-25.
This season’s Big West Championship is the conference’s first baseball tournament since 1998 and will determine the recipient of the conference’s automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. Five teams qualify, with the fourth- and fifth-place teams facing off in a play-in contest to earn the final spot in the four-team double-elimination bracket.
For more information on game times and schedules, visit ucsbgauchos.com.
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