SEC awarded half of NCAA baseball regional sites

INDIANAPOLIS -- Southeastern Conference schools were awarded 8 of the 16 determination sites for the NCAA shot tourney connected Sunday, tying the grounds it acceptable successful 2023.

The remainder of the 64-team tract and first-round matchups volition beryllium announced Monday by the Division I Baseball Committee.

The SEC volition person 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 astatine location to commencement the nationalist tournament.

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

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

Each determination volition see 4 teams playing successful a double-elimination format. Regionals volition commencement Friday and Saturday and tally done June 2, with the winners gathering successful best-of-three ace regionals the pursuing week. Selection of the 8 ace determination hosts volition beryllium announced June 3.

Florida State is hosting a determination for the 37th time, the astir by immoderate school. FSU, Georgia, North Carolina, Oregon State and Tennessee each hosted successful 2024, and Arkansas and Clemson are some hosting for a 3rd consecutive year.

There are 29 conferences that volition person an automatic berth successful the tract of 64, on with 35 at-large selections. The College World Series volition statesman June 13 astatine Charles Schwab Field successful Omaha, Nebraska.