With all the conference tournaments wrapping up on Sunday, the time is near for the unveiling of the NCAA baseball tournament field. All the suspense will be over when the official bracket is revealed at noon ET on Monday, but for the most part we have a pretty good idea who made the 64-team cut, with aspirations of reaching the ultimate destination of Omaha, Nebraska for the College World Series.
This much we do know. There are 29 conferences whose champions receive automatic berths. We can also say that a majority of the 35 teams that will get at-large invitations will come from the SEC and ACC. Members of those two power leagues will also likely be serving as hosts for most of the 16 regionals, which will get underway later this week.
(* denotes teams that are automatic qualifiers.)
Austin regionTexas (1)Texas-San AntonioCal Poly*Arkansas-Little Rock*Nashville regionVanderbilt* (2)LouisvilleEast Tennessee State*Bethune Cookman*Fayetteville regionArkansas (3)KansasNorth Carolina StateCentral Connecticut State*Chapel Hill regionNorth Carolina* (4)Mississippi StateSouthern CaliforniaBinghamton*Baton Rouge regionLSU (5)DukeCincinnatiHouston Christian*Athens regionGeorgia (6)Wake ForestConnecticutHoly Cross*Auburn regionAuburn (7)West VirginiaMiamiNorth Dakota State*Clemson regionClemson (8)OklahomaKansas StateWright State*Corvallis regionOregon State (9)Dallas BaptistArizona StateUtah Valley*Myrtle Beach regionCoastal Carolina* (10)Northeastern*KentuckyUSC Upstate*Tallahassee regionFlorida State (11)AlabamaWestern Kentucky*Murray State*Eugene regionOregon (12)Arizona*Creighton*Fresno State*Knoxville regionTennessee (13)TCUEast Carolina*Miami (Ohio)*Los Angeles regionUCLA (14)UC IrvineRhode Island*Saint Mary’s*Oxford regionMississippi (15)Georgia TechNebraska*Fairfield*Hattiesburg regionSouthern Mississippi (16)FloridaStetson*Columbia*
Last four in: Kentucky, Kansas State, Connecticut, Arizona State.
First four out: Virginia, Oklahoma State, Xavier, Troy.
Team breakdown by conference:Â SEC (13), ACC (9), Big 12 (7), Big Ten (3), American Athletic (2), Big East (2), Big West (2), Conference USA (2), Sun Belt (2).