INDIANAPOLIS – The NCAA Division I baseball committee has announced the 16 regional locations for the 74th annual NCAA Division I baseball championship.
The 16 regional locations with host institutions and records are as follows:
- Austin, Texas – Texas (42-15)
- Kolumbien, South Carolina – South Carolina (33-21)
- Eugene, Oregon – Oregon (37-14)
- Fayetteville, Arkansas – Arkansas (46-10)
- Fort Worth, Texas – TCU (39-17); through games played on May 29, 2021
- Gainesville, Florida – Florida (38-20)
- Greenville, North Carolina ̵1; East Carolina (41-15)
- Knoxville, Tennessee – Tennessee (45-16)
- Lubbock, Texas – Texas Tech (36-15)
- Nashville, Tennessee – Vanderbilt (40-15)
- Oxford, Mississippi – Ole Miss (41-19)
- Ruston, Louisiana – Louisiana Tech (40-18)
- South Bend, Indiana – Notre Dame (30-11)
- Stanford, Kalifornien – Stanford (33-14)
- Starkville, Mississippi – Mississippi-Str. (40-15)
- Tucson, Arizona – Arizona (40-15)
Each regional field consists of four teams playing in a double-elimination format. All 16 Regionals are scheduled to run from Friday June 4th to Monday June 7th (if necessary)
Texas tops all institutions in the field as the Longhorns are hosting for the 28th time while Louisiana Tech is hosting for the first time.
Stanford is second in the field and hosting for the 19th time, while South Carolina is hosting the 18th and Mississippi St. is the 15th since the NCAA switched to the regional format in 1975.
Ole Miss is hosting for the tenth time while Arkansas is hosting for the ninth time. For the eighth time, TCU, Texas Tech and Vanderbilt are hosting Arizona, East Carolina and Tennessee each for the sixth time. Notre Dame is hosting for the fifth time, but for the first time since 2004.
Seven institutions, Arkansas, East Carolina, Mississippi State, Ole Miss, Stanford, Texas Tech, and Vanderbilt, all hosted 2019. In 2020 there was no championship due to COVID-19.
The complete 64-team field, the top 16 national players, the regional first-round pairings and the location assignments will be announced on Monday, May 31st at noon (ET). The committee will determine the entire team of 64 teams in both the Super Regionals and the first round of the Men’s College World Series and will not sow the field again after the game has started.
The selection of the eight superregional hosts will be announced on Tuesday, June 8th at approximately 8 a.m. (ET) at www.NCAA.com/cws. All eight superregional hosts are selected from the 16 regional hosts.
There are 30 Division I conferences that are automatically seated in the 64 range, along with 34 At-Large picks. The Men’s College World Series begins on Saturday June 19 at TD Ameritrade Park Omaha in Omaha, Nebraska.
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Südosten 7 (Arkansas, Florida, Mississippi St., Ole Miss, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vanderbilt)
Big 12 3 (TCU, Texas, Texas Tech)
Pac-12 3 (Arizona, Oregon, Stanford)
Conference USA 1 (Louisiana Tech)
Atlantic coast 1 (Notre Dame)
American Athletic 1 (East Carolina)
