STILLWATER, Okla. -- The Road to Omaha for Oral Roberts will begin in its home state. The Golden Eagles are opening NCAA Regional play in Stillwater, which is just over an hour drive from its campus in Tulsa.

The fourth-seeded Golden Eagles will play the region's top seed and No. 11 overall national seed Oklahoma State on Friday at 6 p.m. CT, while No. 2 seed Dallas Baptist will play No. 3 seed Washington earlier in the day at 12 p.m. Both of those games will be streamed on ESPN+.

Washington might feel like an outcast in this four-team field for a number of reasons beyond geography. The Huskies did not play the other three teams this season, while that trio all faced off against each other multiple times. Those other programs also won 40-plus games, making up a trio of the 25 DI teams that can make that claim.

Oral Roberts took both of its contests from Oklahoma State in mid-week clashes, while Dallas Baptist swept a non-conference home series against the Golden Eagles. The Cowboys and Patriots split a pair of mid-week matchups in March.

UPCOMING
Friday, June 2
G1 – Washington vs. Dallas Baptist | 12 p.m. (ESPN+)
G2 – Oklahoma State vs. Oral Roberts | 6 p.m. (ESPN+)
 
Saturday, June 3
G3 – Loser G1 vs. Loser G2 | 2 p.m.
G4 – Winner G1 vs. Winner G2 | 8 p.m.
 
Sunday, June 4
G5 – Winner G3 vs. Loser G4 | 2 p.m.
G6 – Winner G4 vs. Winner G5 | 8 p.m.
 
Monday, June 5
G7 – Winner G6 vs. Loser G6 (if necessary) | TBD
(Times are subject to change for TV purposes)
 
The winner of the Stillwater Regional takes on the winner of the NCAA Nashville Regional that includes Vanderbilt, Oregon, Xavier and Eastern Illinois, in a best-of-three Super Regional the following week with a spot in the College World Series on the line. 

THE FIELD: STILLWATER REGIONAL
The Stillwater Regional and Winstom-Salem Regional are the only ones with three 40-plus win teams in the four-team field. The four teams in both of those regionals have combined for 166 wins on the season.

Team (Overall Records)
(1) No. 11 Oklahom State (41-18)
The Cowboys finished in a three-way tie for first in the Big 12 regular season standings at 15-9 and were the only conference team to win 40-plus games on the season. OSU fell to TCU 12-5 in the Big 12 title game. OSU was ranked No. 15 in the latest NCBWA Top 30 and No. 16 in the D1Baseball.com Top 25.

(2) Dallas Baptist (45-14)
The Patriots won the Conference USA regular season title with a 25-5 record against conference foes. DBU loss the C-USA title game to Charlotte 5-2. The Patriots were ranked No. 14 in the latest NCBWA Top 30 and No. 18 in the D1Baseball.com Top 25.
 
(3) Washington (34-18)
The Huskies finished third in the Pac 12 regular season standings with a 17-12 record. Washington advance to the Pac 12 Tournament semifinals where the Huskies fell to eventual tournament champion Oregon 12-7.

(4) Oral Roberts (46-11)
The Golden Eagles own the nation’s longest winning streak at 18 after capturing the Summit League Tournament title with three consecutive wins. ORU went 23-1 in the Summit League regular season as the program won both titles for the 19th time. ORU is receiving votes in the latest NCBWA Top 30 after being ranked No. 29 a week ago.

TEAM TRACKER
(RV/NR) ORAL ROBERTS (46-11, 23-1 SL) | @ORUBaseball
Next Up: vs. No. 11 National Seed Oklahoma State (6/2, 6 p.m. CT; ESPN+)
Previous: vs. (4) Omaha (W, 9-2); vs. (3) SDSU (W, 15-2); vs. (3) SDSU (W, 12-4)
After winning three straight to capture the program’s 21st Summit League Tournament title, the Golden Eagles will bring the nation’s longest winning streak at 18 to the Stillwater Regional ... ORU has won 36 of its last 39 games and outscored opponents 174-53 during the current 18-game winning streak ... Those three wins in Fargo improved the program’s overall record to 46-11, which gives them the second-best winning percentage in DI and second most wins (trailing only Wake Forest in both) ... Oral Roberts was ranked No. 10 in the latest Collegiate Baseball Poll and is receiving votes in the NCBWA and USA Today Coaches’ polls ... Oral Roberts is the only Division I team in the country that ranks in the top 10 in batting average (.321; 7th), earned run average (3.66; 3rd), and fielding percentage (.983; 3rd) ... The Golden Eagles average 8.4 runs per game and reached double figures 21 times ... One of three teams in DI that have 20-plus road wins, finishing with a 20-7 mark in those contests (Indiana State, 23; Campbell 20), including an 8-5 win over Oklahoma State in Stillwater on April 11 ... Three of those seven road  losses  came in a series at Dallas Baptist where the Patriots limited ORU to just six runs in three games ... ORU won 11 of its 13 series this season, including all eight in Summit League play ... The Golden Eagles finished Summit League play 23-1 becoming the first team since 2007 to only lose one game in league play ... Summit League Player and Newcomer of the Year Jonah Cox extended his hitting streak to 41 games by hitting safely in all three games at the League Championship ... Cox now owns the sixth longest streak in DI history and he has hit safely in 56 of ORU’s 57 games this season ... DBU was the only team to hold him hitless as Cox went 0-for-4 in the final after going 2-for-5 in the first two games ... Cox picked up his 100th hit of the year after registering four hits in the Summit League Tournament title game and is one of four DI players to reach the century mark this season ... Cox is batting .422 on the season and is one of six Golden Eagle regulars batting .300 or better ... South Carolina transfer Matt Hogan is batting .348 and the All-Summit League First Teamer leads the team with 16 home runs and 63 RBI ... Summit League Championship MVP Justin Quinn increased his batting average to .346 after going 8-for-14 (.571) in Fargo ... Summit League Defensive Player of the Year Mac McCroskey has only made nine errors in 249 chances at his shortstop position and is also batting .300 with 13 home runs and 56 RBI ... Summit League Pitcher of the Year Cade Denton is tied for sixth nationally with 12 saves and owns a 1.60 ERA with 68 strikeouts in 50.2 innings of work ... The starting trio of Brooks Fowler (9-1; 2.81 ERA), Harley Gollert (10-1; 3.27 ERA) and Jakob Hall (8-3; 3.35 ERA) are a combined 27-5 with a 3.28 ERA and has struck out 233 batters in 236 innings ... Midweek starter Joshua Caravalho is 5-1 with a 2.98 ERA in 15 appearances (10 starts).

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