College Baseball bracket projection: Updated Field of 64 and region predictions
The NCAA baseball tournament field announcement is three weeks away. Who is in line for the top seeds? We break it down in our bracket projeciton.
It's May. And that means it's time to start thinking about the NCAA baseball tournament field that will be announced at the end of the month. The first three months of the season have seen teams jockeying for position ahead of a sprint to the Memorial Day reveal of the 64-team bracket that will send eight teams to the College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska.
This season hasn't gone to script with defending champion LSU starting as preseason No. 1 and currently well outside the tournament field at . The team just behind the Tigers in the first rankings - UCLA - has occupied the top spot in the poll since March 2 and is the clear overall No.
1 seed. Texas, Georgia Tech and North Carolina are among the other teams that have justified their preseason rankings. On the opposite end, there's been several other disappointments joining LSU.
Arkansas, TCU and Louisville were expected to be in the mix for regional seeds. It looks like none of the three will reach that goal with Razorbacks still in the field, while the Horned Frogs and Cardinals outside the field at this point. Two weeks of regular-season play remain before conference tournament weekend that has pressure on teams teams jockeying for spots.