NCAA Baseball Playoff Regional Sites Announced...

[Charles Fischer]

We do not know the seeds until Monday morning at 9:00 AM on ESPN2.

 

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Athens, Georgia – Georgia (42-15) 
Auburn, Alabama – Auburn (38-18) 
Austin, Texas – Texas (42-12) 
Baton Rouge, Louisiana – LSU (43-14) 
Chapel Hill, North Carolina – North Carolina (42-12) 
Clemson, South Carolina – Clemson (44-16) 
Conway, South Carolina – Coastal Carolina (48-11) 
Corvallis, Oregon – Oregon State (41-12-1) 
Eugene, Oregon – Oregon (42-14) 
Fayetteville, Arkansas – Arkansas (43-13) 
Hattiesburg, Mississippi – Southern Mississippi (44-14)  
Knoxville, Tennessee – Tennessee (43-16) 
Los Angeles, California – UCLA (42-16) 
Nashville, Tennessee – Vanderbilt (42-16) 
Oxford, Mississippi – Ole Miss (40-19) 
Tallahassee, Florida – Florida State (38-14) 

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So...UCLA kept their Regional after all! UC Irvine lost theirs...

 

Time for a Regional, Baby!

 

[Charles Fischer]

Eugene Selected as One of 16 Regional Host Sites  (Official Press Release for Credentialed Media)

 

EUGENE, Ore. – Oregon has been selected as one of the 16 teams to host an NCAA Regional Tournament starting this Friday at PK Park. The Ducks will learn their seeding and what three other teams will make up the Eugene Regional when the bracket is released on the selection show starting Monday morning at 9 a.m. on ESPN2.

 

Oregon will be hosting an NCAA Regional for the fourth time in the last 14 years. The Ducks previously hosted regionals in 2012, 2013 and 2021. Oregon has also hosted a pair of Super Regionals (2012, 2023).

 

With the announcement of Eugene as a host site, 2025 becomes the fifth consecutive year that Oregon has qualified for the NCAA Tournament, with all five coming during the Mark Wasikowski era. Since the return of baseball in 2009, the Ducks have been selected to participate in the NCAA Tournament 10 times, with the current five-year streak marking the most consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances in program history. 

 

Oregon Regional Appearances (Super Regional Era – 1999 to present day)

2010 – Norwich (Conn.) Regional

2012 – Eugene Regional

2013 – Eugene Regional

2014 – Nashville Regional

2015 – Springfield (Mo.) Regional

2021 – Eugene Regional

2022 – Louisville Regional

2023 – Nashville Regional

2024 – Santa Barbara Regional

2025 – Eugene Regional

- Oregon Regional Championships in bold

 

Let's get to do this AGAIN!

 

[Charles Fischer]

On3 had their updated Bracket Projections, and put Oregon as a No. 14 National Seed, and with winning would travel to North Carolina, who has the No. 3 National Seed.Also projected in our regional is UC Irvine, (tough!) Cincinnati, and Fresno State. (We played the Bulldogs last year in the Santa Barbara Regional) 

 

They have UCLA as a No. 16 National Seed, with Nebraska and St. Mary's in their regional.

 

They have a fourth B1G team in USC going to Auburn as a No. 3 Regional Seed.

 

Find out in the morning!

 

 

[Charles Fischer]

Interesting....not many states had multiple schools hosting, and for the state of Oregon to have both Oregon and Oregon State host?  Pretty good baseball in this state!

 

I knew that Jason Reitz improved a ton in the last month, but I did not know that his ERA in B1G play was 3.09 and that made him the third best pitcher in the conference. Two of the top three ERA pitchers in the B1G at Oregon?

 

Cool.

Lurch got out of a bases-loaded jam...

 

[HDuck]

Four states are home to 2 regionals:  Oregon, Tennessee, S. Carolina, Mississippi.  Not sure I could have guessed any of them at mid-season.  Perhaps the Vandy and Tenn combo.

[HDuck]

The 16 sites pretty much followed the RPI at Walter Nolan's website...except he had 16-Florida and 17-Oregon.   Florida didn't make it for a regional.   Likely because the ratio of wins vs losses in Quad 1, and losing early in the SEC Tournament.