After playing a pair of home-heavy schedules the last two years, the LMU baseball program will have to hit the road for the bulk of the slate in 2016. The Lions are scheduled to play 53 regular-season games this spring, with 32 of them coming away from Page Stadium.
The challenging schedule features 15 games against teams that made the NCAA Tournament last year, including an opening weekend series at 2015 College World Series qualifier TCU from February 19-21. In addition to the games against the Horned Frogs, LMU will play a four-game series at Florida International and three at home against reigning WCC Champion Pepperdine. Midweek contests against NCAA Tournament qualifiers include a pair against USC and CSU Bakersfield, and a lone game at UCLA on April 12.
LMU will not play a non-conference home weekend series this year, but had just one non-conference road series over the last two years. Outside of TCU and FIU (March 4-6), LMU will visit San Jose State (February 26-28) and Nebraska (four games from March 11-13).
In addition to USC, UCLA and CSU Bakersfield, midweek games will pit the Lions against UC Irvine, Long Beach State, UC Riverside and Hawai’i.
The West Coast Conference slate will be tough as always, as LMU will open conference play at home against Portland before traveling to BYU for a three-game series. The Lions will then play at San Diego, host San Francisco and Pepperdine, travel to Pacific and Santa Clara for three, and finish with three-game sets at home against Saint Mary’s and Gonzaga.
The Lions will then hope to reach the WCC Championship Series from May 28-30 for the third straight year.
2016 Loyola-Marymount Schedule
