Here you have it. The full NCAA Tournament. Let's get ready for a fun Road to Omaha.

National Seeds:

#1 Corvallis- (Oregon State)
1 Oregon State
2 Nebraska
3 Yale
4 Holy Cross

#2 Chapel Hill- (North Carolina)
1 North Carolina
2 Florida Gulf Coast
3 Michigan
4 Davidson

#3 Gainesville- (Florida)
1 Florida
2 South Florida
3 Bethune-Cookman
4 Marist

#4 Baton Rouge- (Louisiana State)
1 LSU
2 SE Louisiana
3 Rice
4 Texas Southern

#5 Lubbock- (Texas Tech)
1 Texas Tech
2 Arizona
3 Sam Houston State
4 Delaware

#6 Fort Worth- (TCU)
1 TCU
2 Virginia
3 Dallas Baptist
4 Central Connecticut State

#7 Louisville- (Louisville)
1 Louisville
2 Oklahoma
3 Xavier
4 Radford

#8 Stanford- (Stanford) [Thursday-Saturday due to BYU's school policy]
1 Stanford
2 Cal State Fullerton
3 BYU
4 Sacramento State

Regional Hosts:

Clemson- (Clemson) [Paired with Oregon State]
1 Clemson
2 Vanderbilt
3 St. John's
4 UNC Greensboro

Houston- (Houston) [Paired with North Carolina]
1 Houston
2 Baylor
3 Texas A&M
4 Iowa

Winston-Salem- (Wake Forest) [Paired with Florida]
1 Wake Forest
2 West Virginia
3 Maryland
4 UMBC

Hattiesburg- (Southern Mississippi) [Paired with LSU]
1 Southern Miss
2 Mississippi State
3 South Alabama
4 Illinois-Chicago

Tallahassee- (Florida State) [Paired with Texas Tech]
1 Florida State
2 UCF
3 Auburn
4 Tennessee Tech

Fayetteville- (Arkansas) [Paired with TCU]
1 Arkansas
2 Missouri State
3 Oklahoma State
4 Oral Roberts

Lexington- (Kentucky) [Paired with Louisville]
1 Kentucky
2 Indiana
3 NC State
4 Ohio

Long Beach- (Long Beach State) [Paired with Stanford]
1 Long Beach State
2 Texas
3 UCLA
4 San Diego State

(05-28-2017 07:46 PM)SouthernMissSNu Wrote:  Selection show is tomorrow morning for the placement of the rest of the field but for now the 16 host cities are:

Baton Rouge
Chapel Hill
Clemson
Corvallis
Fayetteville
Fort Worth
Gainesville
Hattiesburg
Houston
Lexington
Long Beach
Louisville
Lubbock
Stanford
Tallahassee
Winston-Salem

So Rice, Long Beach St and S Miss are the only G5's to host?

Oops: didn't realize UH got a regional not Rice.

I created the last two baseball tournament thread. Props to the OP.

One request, put the year into the title.

(05-28-2017 08:09 PM)NoDak Wrote:  

(05-28-2017 07:46 PM)SouthernMissSNu Wrote:  Selection show is tomorrow morning for the placement of the rest of the field but for now the 16 host cities are:

Baton Rouge
Chapel Hill
Clemson
Corvallis
Fayetteville
Fort Worth
Gainesville
Hattiesburg
Houston
Lexington
Long Beach
Louisville
Lubbock
Stanford
Tallahassee
Winston-Salem

So Rice, Long Beach St and S Miss are the only G5's to host?

Oops: didn't realize UH got a regional not Rice.

Going by RPI it's appropriate. If anything Houston got lucky as they are behind both Texas and Virginia in the RPI.

NCAA selection show is Monday at noon eastern, 9 am Pacific on ESPN2.

(05-28-2017 10:33 PM)jdgaucho Wrote:  I created the last two baseball tournament thread. Props to the OP.

One request, put the year into the title.

Thanks Gaucho. I've updated it as requested.

(05-28-2017 08:09 PM)NoDak Wrote:  

(05-28-2017 07:46 PM)SouthernMissSNu Wrote:  Selection show is tomorrow morning for the placement of the rest of the field but for now the 16 host cities are:

Baton Rouge
Chapel Hill
Clemson
Corvallis
Fayetteville
Fort Worth
Gainesville
Hattiesburg
Houston
Lexington
Long Beach
Louisville
Lubbock
Stanford
Tallahassee
Winston-Salem

So Rice, Long Beach St and S Miss are the only G5's to host?

Oops: didn't realize UH got a regional not Rice.

I realized this created a little confusion there. I've edited the original post to include the school as well.

Big college baseball fan here, traveled down to Clearwater this past week to watch the AAC tourney and see a few new teams. Houston looks the real deal to me. Not sure if they've got quite enough firepower to make the CWS, but I definitely think they'll be playing in the supers.

I'm incredibly relieved that we (FSU) won that game yesterday, probably sealed the deal with us getting a regional. Hard to believe that about 1.5wks ago there was serious concern that we may miss the tournament all-together. That what winning 5-straight games (3 over Louisville and 1 over UNC) will do for you though! I thought we were a lock to host after beating Duke, but I am glad that we managed to pull the game out yesterday because I had a sinking feeling the committee may get hung up on the conference record.

A little bit surprised that UVA isn't hosting with so many postseason teams in that area (West Virginia, maybe Maryland, Radford, etc) but not surprised at all the Houston got a nod. LBSU was on the hosting bubble as well, but knocked things out by beating CSF 2/3. A lot of sites projected Arizona hosting, which I thought was silly even before last week. There just aren't enough teams likely in the field out west this year for the committee to put 4 regionals west of the Rockies.

Really no major surprises thus far. I thought Texas would sneak in and steal a regional spot, but they fell in the Big 12 championship game which dashed those hopes.

Let's see what happens with the selection show!

Selection Show has Started. Here we go...

National seeds
1. Oregon State
2. North Carolina
3. Florida
4. LSU
5. Texas Tech
6. TCU
7. Louisville
8. Stanford

Of course, match two west coast regionals and lump most of the western teams there.

Congrats Louisville, no Big West team standing in your way this time.

Last 4 in: Auburn, Texas A&M, UCLA, Michigan

First 4 Out: Miami, UConn, Old Dominion, South Carolina.

(05-29-2017 10:55 AM)3BNole Wrote:  Big college baseball fan here, traveled down to Clearwater this past week to watch the AAC tourney and see a few new teams. Houston looks the real deal to me. Not sure if they've got quite enough firepower to make the CWS, but I definitely think they'll be playing in the supers.

I'm incredibly relieved that we (FSU) won that game yesterday, probably sealed the deal with us getting a regional. Hard to believe that about 1.5wks ago there was serious concern that we may miss the tournament all-together. That what winning 5-straight games (3 over Louisville and 1 over UNC) will do for you though! I thought we were a lock to host after beating Duke, but I am glad that we managed to pull the game out yesterday because I had a sinking feeling the committee may get hung up on the conference record.

A little bit surprised that UVA isn't hosting with so many postseason teams in that area (West Virginia, maybe Maryland, Radford, etc) but not surprised at all the Houston got a nod. LBSU was on the hosting bubble as well, but knocked things out by beating CSF 2/3. A lot of sites projected Arizona hosting, which I thought was silly even before last week. There just aren't enough teams likely in the field out west this year for the committee to put 4 regionals west of the Rockies.

Really no major surprises thus far. I thought Texas would sneak in and steal a regional spot, but they fell in the Big 12 championship game which dashed those hopes.

Let's see what happens with the selection show!

FSU's failure to win a baseball national title despite all of the tournament appearances and WS appearances is one of the most astonishing facts in collegiate athletics.

It would be great for you guys to win this one.

Three teams from the 2016 College World Series - UC Santa Barbara, Miami and national champion Coastal Carolina - do not make the NCAA Tournament.

Miami was the first team out. Their streak ends at 44 years

(05-29-2017 11:42 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(05-29-2017 10:55 AM)3BNole Wrote:  Big college baseball fan here, traveled down to Clearwater this past week to watch the AAC tourney and see a few new teams. Houston looks the real deal to me. Not sure if they've got quite enough firepower to make the CWS, but I definitely think they'll be playing in the supers.

I'm incredibly relieved that we (FSU) won that game yesterday, probably sealed the deal with us getting a regional. Hard to believe that about 1.5wks ago there was serious concern that we may miss the tournament all-together. That what winning 5-straight games (3 over Louisville and 1 over UNC) will do for you though! I thought we were a lock to host after beating Duke, but I am glad that we managed to pull the game out yesterday because I had a sinking feeling the committee may get hung up on the conference record.

A little bit surprised that UVA isn't hosting with so many postseason teams in that area (West Virginia, maybe Maryland, Radford, etc) but not surprised at all the Houston got a nod. LBSU was on the hosting bubble as well, but knocked things out by beating CSF 2/3. A lot of sites projected Arizona hosting, which I thought was silly even before last week. There just aren't enough teams likely in the field out west this year for the committee to put 4 regionals west of the Rockies.

Really no major surprises thus far. I thought Texas would sneak in and steal a regional spot, but they fell in the Big 12 championship game which dashed those hopes.

Let's see what happens with the selection show!

FSU's failure to win a baseball national title despite all of the tournament appearances and WS appearances is one of the most astonishing facts in collegiate athletics.

It would be great for you guys to win this one.

Thanks! Yeah, that's a hard thing a lot of FSU baseball fans grapple with. I'm in the camp that would obviously love to win it all, but if I had to chose, would take consistency over one great season. There are just so many teams out there that get hot, win it all, and then fall into mediocrity.

That said, I don't think we'll win it while Martin is here. He's a great coach, one of the best in college baseball history, but his strategy for winning games just doesn't translate to the postseason. It's a shame because he's done a lot for the sport and it'd be a great story, but I just don't seen it happening before he hangs up the cleats in a year or two.

BTW, I enjoyed watching USF this past weekend! The AAC is a very good baseball conference, lots of great teams and got to see some really good games.

WVU gets their first at large bid in program history and first time back in the tourney in like 20 years

WVU's baseball program has gotten a major boost from being in the Big 12.

My take-aways from the bracket:

1. Somewhat surprised that Clemson got the host over UVA, but there are arguments to be made both ways. UVA had a very slight edge in the conference standings and finished well down the stretch. On the other hand, Clemson had a tougher schedule and a slightly better RPI. Head to head was a wash. I really thought that how Clemson finished down the stretch, coupled with UVA's "northern" geography (and so many postseason teams in that area: West Virginia, Maryland, Radford, ODU (had they made it) would have given the 'Hoos the nod, but either way there wasn't really a right and wrong answer.

2. As a sequel to the first point, UVA got SCREWED in their regional pairing, as did TCU. I mean, hot-dang, TCU the #5 seed drawing UVA and Dallas Baptist? That's one brutal tournament right there. I don't know what TCU and UVA did to tick off the selection committee, but they need to make amends before next year!

3. Miami's streak is officially over. There's a bit of bitter-sweetness to this for me. As an FSU fan, I'm happy because of the whole rivalry thing and the fact that FSU now takes over as having the longest active postseason streak in baseball. On the other hand, it's just another part of the FSU-Miami rivalry that seems to be a little bit less than it once was. My wife and her side of the family are all UM fans, so I know they're disappointed. For what it's worth, my side is all FSU (even though my parents are both from Miami, my father from Coral Gables in fact.) Back to baseball though, the committee made the right choice. After the bubble shrunk so much the past few days, there were was little doubt that they would be on the outside looking in. The committee had them first out, I actually figured them to be more like 3-4 out.

4. UCLA making the tournament is a little bit of a surprise, but I figured they'd get in because of geography and the fact that the Pac 12 only had 4 legitimate postseason teams.

5. I agree with JDGuacho, geography is a b****. I felt like the committee did a good job with what they could in terms of matchups, but it's always rough when you end up seeing the same teams over and over again. It's a difficult thing in baseball. Unlike basketball, there's not a boatload of money to be made in the tournament and transporting 30-40 players and staff, not to mention all their equipment across country is $$$$$$$$$. So really the NCAA is doing what they can. Still, I know the west coast teams always feel unfairly isolated and it's not a problem limited to just them. We in Florida have to deal with much the same thing, but due to the sheer number of teams here, rather than geographic isolation. In fact, going back the past regionals we've hosted, 75% of teams in our regional (not including us of course) have come from within a 5hr drive of Tallahassee! In fact, there's only been one year in that entire time that we haven't hosted some combination of Alabama, Auburn, Miss State, UCF, or Florida... and that one season we hosted Georgia. So the point is, geography is the primary driver when it comes where teams get sent, and that's probably how it should be due to cost. As a huge baseball fan who just wants to see new and interesting teams though, it really stinks and it especially stinks if you live in California or Florida, because that's where it's going to happen the most.

6. In the same vein, very pleased that FSU didn't get paired with Gainesville for the third year in a row. Stinks for Louisville and Kentucky fans. I like Texas Tech, but I'm hoping Arizona can pull off the upset and we can make it through our bracket so I can see the Wildcats for the first time in a long time.

7. Very impressed that the committee made Bethune-Cookman a 3-seed. They deserved to be a 3-seed based on their RPI, but I wasn't sure whether they'd do it. Maybe someone could do a bit of research, but I don't recall the last time an HBCU wasn't a 4-seed. If it's happened before, it probably was BCU that time as well, but I can't remember it ever happening. Good on them! That's one of those teams that annually makes it and is a threat to win a game or two in the regionals.

That's all I got for now, I'm sure I'll have more later!

(05-29-2017 12:26 PM)OldGoldnBlue Wrote:  WVU gets their first at large bid in program history and first time back in the tourney in like 20 years

WVU's baseball program has gotten a major boost from being in the Big 12.

New stadium probably doesn't hurt either.

(05-29-2017 12:58 PM)3BNole Wrote:  3. Miami's streak is officially over. There's a bit of bitter-sweetness to this for me. As an FSU fan, I'm happy because of the whole rivalry thing and the fact that FSU now takes over as having the longest active postseason streak in baseball. On the other hand, it's just another part of the FSU-Miami rivalry that seems to be a little bit less than it once was. My wife and her side of the family are all UM fans, so I know they're disappointed. For what it's worth, my side is all FSU (even though my parents are both from Miami, my father from Coral Gables in fact.) Back to baseball though, the committee made the right choice. After the bubble shrunk so much the past few days, there were was little doubt that they would be on the outside looking in. The committee had them first out, I actually figured them to be more like 3-4 out.

Just imagine if Miami had properly covered the tarp and finished (and won) the Sunday game against Florida State instead of cancelling it.

Oh well.