The Oregon baseball team finally met a late-season opponent it couldn't defeat: The weather.
The Ducks' Friday night matchup against the Nebraska Cornhuskers in pool play of the Big Ten baseball tournament has been postponed because of inclement weather.
The teams will now play Saturday at 7 a.m. PT in a winner-take-all outing at Charles Schwab Field in Omaha. It will be the first game of a tournament triple-header that also will feature a pair of semifinal matchups.
The UCLA Bruins and Iowa Hawkeyes will play in the first semifinal, while the Ducks-Cornhuskers winner will advance to face the Penn State Nittany Lions in the other.
The top-seeded Ducks are 1-0 in the tournament thanks to a 4-2 victory over the Michigan State Spartans on Thursday night. Anson Aroz went 3 for 4 with three RBIs and a trio of Ducks pitchers shut down the Spartans as the Ducks won their pool play opener, setting up the winner-take-all matchup against the eighth-seeded Cornhuskers.
It will be the first meeting between the teams this season and both will start their staff aces, as Oregon left-hander Grayson Grinsell (9-2, 2.33 ERA) will face Nebraska left-hander Jackson Brockett (3-3, 3.62 ERA)
The fourth-ranked Ducks (42-13), who have won 11 in a row and 15 of their last 16 games, are one of the hottest teams in the nation.