The Tulane baseball team, winners of a second consecutive American Athletic Conference Tournament, will be the 4 seed that the Corvallis Regional in the 2024 NCAA Tournament, the school learned.

The Green Wave (35-24) clinched the league's automatic berth when left fielder Jackson Linn's 433-foot solo homer sailed over the wall in left in the bottom of the ninth to give the team an 11-10 win over Wichita State on Sunday.

Tulane will face Oregon State (42-14) on Friday at 8 p.m. CT/6 PT on ESPNU. The winner will face the winner of the game between second-seeded UC Irvine (43-12) and third-seeded Nicholls (38-20), which will be earlier in the day at 3 p.m. CT/1 PT.

The Green Wave was swept by UC Irvine at home in February but broke out the brooms against Nicholls with a 3-2 win at home on February 20 and a wild 14-12 victory on the road on March 5.

The Olive and Blue has faced the Beavers three times in its history, winning all of those contests. The team won 11-9 at the Riverside Invitational (Riverside, California) in 1986, 6-5 at the Louisiana Classics in Lafayette in 1991 and 3-1 in the 2005 College World Series opener (Omaha, Nebraska) in 2005.