USC Baseball 2025 Season Wrap: Trojans make first NCAA tournament in decade, fall in regional final

Peristyle Podcast - USC Trojan Football Discussion

Ryan Abraham - USCFootball,com publisher

Sports, Basketball, Football

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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USCFootball.com reporters Connor Morrissette and Shotgun Spratling wrap up the Trojans' 2025 baseball season that featured USC making it back to the NCAA tournament for the first time since 2015. The Trojans advanced to the regional final but couldn't beat the homestanding Oregon State Beavers in a pair of games to conclude the Corvallis Regional. Among topics included the USCFootball.com duo grade the season, look at who could leave and is likely to step up into a bigger role, and they examine where the USC baseball program stands after three years under head coach Andy Stankiewicz. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	For USC Football.com, Connor Morissette and Shotgun Sprattling, we're here to recap the USC
0:05.9	baseball season. Shotgun, it was a really great year under Andy Stankowitz.
0:11.4	USC makes the NCAA tournament for the first time in a decade. They win two games in the
0:15.5	tournament, but then come up short against Oregon State, where they had won one of those
0:20.0	games. They would have advanced to the Super Regional's for the first time in 20 years.
0:23.7	I guess we could start with those Oregon State games where it just looked like, to me,
0:26.9	USC ran out of pitching, and they didn't really hit very well either, so it's hard to blame it all
0:31.3	in the pitching, but they just kind of ran out of gas.
0:33.6	What do you think of those two games against Oregon State? I mean, those two games show you where this program is at versus where a top five program is at.
0:42.0	Oregon State is a team that got someone like Dax Whitney, a freshman, that could have made $1.5 to $2 million in the draft to come to college.
0:51.7	Oregon State is a place where Iva Arquette, who is going to be a top 10
0:56.1	pick in about a month and a half, they got him to transfer in from Washington. They're a destination
1:02.0	program right now because of their development, because of their history the last 20 years,
1:07.5	that basically, and it's interesting, they basically took USC spot as the West Coast, you know, kind of the, the, the, you know, basically, and it's interesting, they basically took USC spot as the West Coast,
1:13.4	you know, kind of the torchbearer for the West Coast. They've won three national championships
1:18.2	in the last 20 years. That's the most on the West Coast. They have been the premier program.
1:23.5	Now, there's some other programs that have been really good. UCLA and Arizona and Stanford and different times.
1:28.3	Some other programs have kind of popped up here and there in the last couple decades.
1:31.2	But 2005, Corvallis, Super Regional, Oregon State beats Michael Espe's USC team.
1:38.7	That was, you know, USC had only been to the NCAA tournament once since then before this year.
1:43.3	But that was kind of the
1:44.3	changing of the guard. And I wrote about that a little bit for the LA Times, but that's kind of
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