Oregon, Oregon State named host sites for NCAA baseball regionals

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The NCAA announced the 64-team bracket for baseball regionals on Monday — with Oregon and Oregon State named among regional host sites.

First-year Big Ten schools Oregon (42-14) and UCLA (42-16) are hosts, as are Sun Belt Conference schools Coastal Carolina (48-11) and Southern Mississippi (44-14) and independent Oregon State (41-12-1).

Earning the number 8 seed, Oregon State will host Texas Christian University, University of Southern California and Saint Mary’s in the Corvallis regional. The action starts Friday when OSU takes on Saint Mary’s.

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Taking the number 12 seed, University of Oregon will host Utah Valley, Cal Poly, and Arizona State University in the Eugene regional. University of Oregon will play Utah Valley on Friday.

Southeastern Conference schools were awarded eight of the 16 regional sites for the NCAA baseball tournament on Sunday, tying the record it set in 2023.

The SEC will have Arkansas (43-13), Auburn (38-18), Georgia (42-15), LSU (43-14), Mississippi (40-19), Tennessee (43-16), Texas (42-12) and Vanderbilt (42-16) playing at home to start the national tournament.

Three Atlantic Coast Conference teams are hosts: Clemson (44-16), Florida State (38-14) and North Carolina (42-12).

Each regional will include four teams playing in a double-elimination format. Regionals start Friday and Saturday and run through June 2, with the winners meeting in best-of-three super regionals the following week. Selection of the eight Super Regional hosts will be announced on June 3.

Florida State is hosting a regional for the 37th time, the most by any school. FSU, Georgia, North Carolina, Oregon State and Tennessee each hosted in 2024, and Arkansas and Clemson are hosting for a third straight year.

There are 29 conferences that will receive an automatic berth in the field of 64, along with 35 at-large selections. The College World Series begins June 13 at Charles Schwab Field in Omaha, Nebraska.


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