Oklahoma baseball projected to travel east for NCAA Tournament
Oklahoma baseball projected to travel east for NCAA Tournament
Two days before Selection Monday, the Oklahoma Sooners team won't have to worry about whether or not they'll be among the 64 teams picked to play in the NCAA Tournament.
Their collective breath is baited, though, in wondering where they will play in the regional round of the NCAA Tournament.
Baseball America released its latest projections Saturday morning after a spate of upsets in conference tournaments the night before. Oklahoma hasn't moved much.
The Sooners are projected to head to North Carolina for the Chapel Hill Regional in Baseball America's latest look. OU would be the two-seed there, ahead of No. 3 Connecticut and No. 4 Holy Cross.
The No. 2-seed is helpful in that it would provide OU home-field advantage - in this case, batting in the bottom of an inning - against any projected No. 3. Unfortunately for Oklahoma, North Carolina is projected as the No. 4 overall, national seed. A couple weeks ago, OU seemed on the verge contending for hosting duties or, at worst, slotting as a No. 2 against a far lower national seed.
But the Sooners' struggles down the stretch hurt. OU won just one of its final four SEC series and finished 1-5 in its final six regular-season games. They exacted some measure of revenge for two of those series losses by beating Kentucky and Georgia in the first and second rounds of the SEC Tournament this week before falling to Vanderbilt in the quarterfinal round.
The NCAA Tournament selection show is at 11 a.m. CT on ESPN2 on Monday.
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