Arizona’s road back to Omaha will run through Florida, Kansas, Las Vegas, Oklahoma, Texas and Utah but will have plenty of stops close to home.
The Wildcats released their 2026 schedule on Wednesday, a 53-game
slate that includes 29 contests at Hi Corbett Field. Including trips to ASU and GCU and a season-opening tournament in Surprise, the UA will play 35 games within its home state during the regular season.
Arizona will play 25 games against teams that made last year’s NCAA Tournament including fellow College World Series participant Oregon State. The UA and OSU will meet Feb. 14 in Surprise Stadium, home of the Big 12 Tournament this year, in a season-opening tourney that also includes games against Stanford and Michigan.
The 2026 home opener is Feb. 17 against Nebraska-Omaha, part of a 5-game homestand including four against UConn. After a second tourney, Feb. 27-March 1 in Las Vegas, the Wildcats host Fresno State for a weekend series before opening Big 12 play March 13 at Utah.
Arizona will host ASU, BYU, Houston, Kansas State and Texas Tech in conference series and also take trips to Kansas, Oklahoma State, TCU and UCF. There’s also a nonconference home game March 31 vs. West Virginia, one of seven Tuesday/Wednesday contests at Hi Corbett.
In addition to the Big 12 series with the Sun Devils April 2-4 the in-state rivals will play two nonconference games in Phoenix on March 10 and April 13. There are also three games with GCU, two in Tucson (March 3, March 24) and one in Phoenix (April 28).
Arizona, which made its 19th CWS trip last June, has two fall exhibitions slated for the next two weekends. It will host Pima at 3 p.m. PT Friday and Central Arizona on Oct. 25 at 3 p.m. PT. Both games are free and open to the public.
