{"id":86801,"date":"2025-06-07T20:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T20:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/86801\/"},"modified":"2025-06-07T20:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T20:00:09","slug":"seeding-and-bracketing-for-ncaa-baseball-are-hot-conversation-topics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/86801\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeding and bracketing for NCAA baseball are hot conversation topics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Matt Zemek
\n\u00a0|\u00a0 UCLA Wire<\/p>\n

UCLA baseball plays Texas-San Antonio in the NCAA Super Regionals this weekend. One has to wonder: Should the NCAA re-seed 16 teams for the supers and then re-seed again for the eight-team College World Series? College Sports Wire<\/a> looked at the topic:<\/a><\/p>\n

“Florida State is the No. 9 national seed. Oregon State is the No. 8 national seed. We have two teams which were the top seeds in their NCAA regionals this past weekend. Now one of them will be eliminated before Omaha. Re-seeding the bracket would put each of these national seeds against a lower-seeded opponent in the supers. Both teams would be rewarded for winning their regional. Basic common sense, right?<\/p>\n

“If one team out of the 16 left in the field is being severely disadvantaged by the lack of re-seeding,\u00a0it’s Florida State.<\/a>\u00a0The Seminoles have to fly across the country to Corvallis, in the Pacific Northwest, to play a higher-seeded team. Re-seeding would give Florida State a home regional and a much better setup. If other highly-seeded teams had won more of the regionals this past weekend, FSU might be asked to go on the road, but probably not to the West Coast.”<\/p>\n

There is a lot to consider here. Basketball doesn’t re-seed before the Sweet 16 and the Final Four. Football doesn’t re-seed. Should this mean baseball has no obligation to be different, or is baseball unique enough that changes are warranted? We report, you decide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matt Zemek \u00a0|\u00a0 UCLA Wire UCLA baseball plays Texas-San Antonio in the NCAA Super Regionals this weekend. One…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2289],"tags":[5,2500,1693,648,3938,1260,1694,2341,8800,5038],"class_list":{"0":"post-86801","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-college-baseball","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-championship","10":"tag-college","11":"tag-college-baseball","12":"tag-division","13":"tag-i","14":"tag-ncaa","15":"tag-ncaa-baseball","16":"tag-ncaa-division-i","17":"tag-ncaa-division-i-baseball-championship"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114643863175000377","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}