Soccer season isn’t over just yet in Corvallis.
Oregon State University will host the University of Washington at Paul Lorenz Field on Thursday at 6 p.m. in the first round of the NCAA Men’s Soccer Tournament.
Despite falling to the University of San Diego 4-2 on Saturday and dropping from first to third in the West Coast Conference standings, the Beavers still earned a home berth in the first round of the NCAA tournament after finishing the regular season with a 10-4-2 record.
The Washington Huskies completed the 2025 regular season with a 10-6-2 overall record, finishing second in the Big Ten standings.
The tournament consists of 48 teams and is single elimination. Matches will be played at the higher seeded team’s campus site until the final four teams meet for the College Cup in Cary, North Carolina. The championship will be played on Dec. 15.
Unlike regular season NCAA matches, tied games in the tournament will advance to two 10-minute overtime periods. If a game is still tied after both, it will end with a penalty kick shootout.
The WCC has three teams in the tournament field, with the University of Portland and the University of San Diego, the No. 8 and 9 seeds, respectively, earning first-round byes.
OSU is unseeded. If the Beavers defeat Washington, the team will travel to play No. 5-seeded Southern Methodist University, the Atlantic Coast Conference champions, on Sunday at 4 p.m.
Kansas City University, Lindenwood University, and No. 12-seeded Stanford University round out the eighth of the bracket OSU will start in. You can view the entire bracket here.
The Beavers already played Washington and Stanford – both former Pac-12 foes – this season. OSU defeated the Huskies 2-1 in Corvallis in August, but fell to the Cardinal 3-2 on the road in September.
Oregon State has enjoyed a strong home record this season, going 5-1-1 in Lorenz with the lone loss coming against San Diego last Saturday.
2025 will mark the sixth straight year the Beavers have made the NCAA tournament, and the first occurrence under new head coach Jarred Brookins. OSU has hosted a home playoff game every year since 2021.
Brookins was on the Beaver staff for the team’s postseason appearances in 2023 and 2024.
Last season, OSU dropped its tournament opener at home, falling 1-0 to Gardner-Webb University.
However, in 2023 the Beavers went on the longest postseason run in program history, winning four straight games before falling to the University of Notre Dame in the semifinals as one of four remaining teams in the tournament.
The Beavers have gone 5-2-3 in their last 10 matches against the Huskies.
