Overview

• Kansas opens against Creighton at 7 p.m. Friday in a four-team double-elimination regional at Baum-Walker Stadium.
• Arkansas begins at 2 p.m. against North Dakota State with starter Aiden Jimenez tasked with ending the Razorbacks’ two-season home-regional skid.
• Kansas has won six of its last seven games and holds a 6-0 edge in its most recent matchups with Creighton, which arrives on a seven-game winning streak.
• Creighton coach Ed Servais will retire at season’s end after 22 years during which his teams committed fewer errors than any other program in college baseball over the past 21 seasons.
• The Fayetteville Regional champion will advance to face the Knoxville Regional winner in a best-of-three super regional scheduled for June 6–9.