The NCAA revealed on Sunday night the 16 schools that will host regionals in the NCAA baseball tournament, half of them belonging to the Southeastern Conference.
The teams’ seeds were not yet announced, as the full 64-team field is set to be unveiled Monday, but leading the list were LSU — ranked No. 1 in the country entering this week — and Vanderbilt, which won the SEC championship game 3-2 over Ole Miss on Sunday.
Ole Miss, Arkansas, Auburn, Georgia, Tennessee and Texas were also among the top 16 teams given the honor of hosting a regional.
The Big Ten was represented by two first-year members from the baseball-happy West Coast: UCLA, which lost the conference championship game 5-0 to Nebraska on Sunday, and Oregon.
Both North Carolina and Clemson will host regionals after the Tar Heels beat the Tigers 14-4 in the Atlantic Coast Conference championship game.
The other regionals were awarded to Coastal Carolina, Florida State, Oregon State and Southern Miss.
Twenty-nine conferences will be awarded an automatic berth into the tournament field. Regionals begin this Friday, and following the super regional round, the College World Series will begin June 13 in Omaha, Neb.
–Field Level Media
