The Arizona Wildcats and Louisville Cardinals meet up in Omaha on Sunday with their NCAA Men’s College World Series hopes on the line in the first elimination game of the tournament. Both teams had high hopes coming into the Men’s College World Series, but found themselves on the losing end of a couple of tough battles.

Louisville Cardinals baseball won an NCAA CWS elimination baseball game vs Arizona. Three takeaways from UofL baseball's NCAA Tournament win:

Arizona and Louisville baseball look to avoid elimination in the College World Series. Follow live updates as the Wildcats and Cardinals face off:

The Cards have another 27 outs to play with because Louisville punished Arizona with six runs in the bottom of the eighth inning to beat the Wildcats, 8-3.

OMAHA, Neb. - Making their sixth all-time appearance in the College World Series, the Louisville baseball program is already on the brink of elimination, and will take on Arizona in the 0-1 game with their season on the line.

The CWS often boils down to manufactured runs. Arizona will have to hammer out four games worth of them just to make the championship series.

The ghosts of the old Pac-12 will be lurking at Charles Schwab Field this weekend when the College World Series opens. Oregon State, UCLA and Arizona will be back in Omaha, where they combined for seven of the 24 national baseball championships won by the conference.

Arkansas, Oregon State, LSU, Louisville, Arizona and UCLA. The last remaining ticket will come down to Murray State vs. Duke.