{"id":61505,"date":"2025-05-28T13:10:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T13:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/61505\/"},"modified":"2025-05-28T13:10:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T13:10:09","slug":"arkansas-to-host-kansas-creighton-north-dakota-state-in-ncaa-fayetteville-regional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/61505\/","title":{"rendered":"Arkansas to Host Kansas, Creighton &#038; North Dakota State in NCAA Fayetteville Regional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. \u2013 Arkansas has punched its ticket to the NCAA Tournament for the 36th time in program history.<\/p>\n<p>Arkansas (43-13), the No. 3 national seed and top seed in the Fayetteville Regional, is set to host No. 2 seed Kansas (43-15), No. 3 seed Creighton (41-14) and No. 4 seed North Dakota State (20-31) from May 30-June 2 inside the friendly confines of Baum-Walker Stadium. Arkansas opens tournament play against NDSU at 2 p.m. Friday, May 30, on ESPN+.<\/p>\n<p>The Hogs, hosting a regional for the 12th time in program history and the seventh time in the last eight full seasons, will maintain home-field advantage through the super-regional round and host at Baum-Walker Stadium for the sixth time overall and the fourth time since 2018 if they are to advance. Arkansas is 32-4 overall (.889 winning percentage) at Baum-Walker Stadium this year \u2013 two wins shy of tying its single-season home win record of 34, set in 2018 and 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The winner of the Fayetteville Regional will play the winner of the Knoxville Regional in the best-of-three-game super regional from June 6-8 or June 7-9. No. 14 national seed and top regional seed Tennessee (43-16) hosts No. 2 seed Wake Forest (36-20), No. 3 seed Cincinnati (32-24) and No. 4 seed Miami (OH) (35-21) this weekend in Knoxville, Tenn.<\/p>\n<p>The Razorbacks are one of a record 13 SEC teams in this year\u2019s NCAA Tournament field. Arkansas is joined by Alabama, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, LSU, Mississippi State, Oklahoma, Ole Miss, Tennessee, Texas and Vanderbilt.<\/p>\n<p>It marks the first time 13 teams from any conference have earned NCAA Tournament bids. The previous record was 11 SEC teams a year ago. It was announced Sunday that a record-tying eight SEC teams will serve as NCAA Regional hosts.<\/p>\n<p>NCAA Fayetteville Regional<br \/>Friday, May 30<br \/>Game 1 \u2013 Arkansas vs. NDSU \u2013 2 p.m. (ESPN+)<br \/>Game 2 \u2013 Kansas vs. Creighton \u2013 7 p.m. (ESPN+)<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, May 31<br \/>Game 3 \u2013 Game 1 Loser vs. Game 2 Loser \u2013 2 p.m.<br \/>Game 4 \u2013 Game 1 Winner vs. Game 2 Winner \u2013 8 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday, June 1<br \/>Game 5 \u2013 Game 3 Winner vs. Game 4 Loser \u2013 2 p.m.<br \/>Game 6 \u2013 Game 4 Winner vs. Game 5 Winner \u2013 8 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Monday, June 2 (If Necessary)<br \/>Game 7 \u2013 If the Game 5 Winner Wins Game 6 \u2013 TBD<\/p>\n<p>For complete coverage of Arkansas baseball, follow the Hogs on Twitter (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RazorbackBSB\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@RazorbackBSB<\/a>), Instagram (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/razorbackbsb\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@RazorbackBSB<\/a>) and Facebook (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RazorbackBSB\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arkansas Razorback Baseball<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. \u2013 Arkansas has punched its ticket to the NCAA Tournament for the 36th time in program&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3723],"tags":[6082,7,217,1842,15144,231,772,1544],"class_list":{"0":"post-61505","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-college-basketball","11":"tag-headlines","12":"tag-home-feature","13":"tag-ncaa","14":"tag-ncaa-basketball","15":"tag-ncaab"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114585627906926254","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}