USA TODAY Sports' college baseball tournament bracket projections, including Florida
The end of the college baseball regular season is just around the corner, which means that the postseason is just about to begin. With a nearly full season now in the books, the final pieces of the regional tournament picture are finally falling into place.
Mind you, there are still games left to be played but with a nearly complete sample size on hand, USA TODAY Sports duo Eddie Timanus and Erick Smith took a stab at projecting what the early postseason picture will look like. Among those listed are the Florida Gators, whose late-season surge saved them from a lost season and got them back to the NCAA Tournament.
Timanus and Smith agreed that the Orange and Blue will be the second seed in the Fort Worth Region, where the TCU Horned Frogs hold the top seed. Also included in that bracket are the Virginia Cavaliers at the No. 3 seed and the Wright State Raiders at No. 4.
Take a look below at USA TODAY Sports' full college baseball NCAA Tournament seeding projections.
(* denotes teams that are automatic qualifiers based on current conference standings.)
Austin region
Texas* (1) Texas-San Antonio* Kansas Central Connecticut State*
Baton Rouge region
LSU (2) Northeastern* Arizona Missouri State*
Tallahassee region
Florida State* (3) Mississippi State Stetson* Bethune-Cookman*
Fayetteville region
Arkansas (4) Duke Northeastern* Bryant*
Athens region
Georgia (5) Louisville Texas Rio Grande Valley Holy Cross*
Auburn region
Auburn (6) Miami (Fla.) Connecticut* Miami (Ohio)*
Nashville region
Vanderbilt (7) Wake Forest Southern California Oral Roberts*
Chapel Hill region
North Carolina (8) Oklahoma Kansas State Yale*
Corvallis region
Oregon State (9) Mississippi Arizona State Sacramento State*
Myrtle Beach region
Coastal Carolina* (10) North Carolina State Kentucky High Point*
Los Angeles region
UCLA (11) Dallas Baptist* Cal Poly San Diego*
Clemson region
Clemson (12) Southern Mississippi East Tennessee State* Rhode Island*
Knoxville region
Tennessee (13) Georgia Tech Iowa* Tennessee Tech*
Eugene region
Oregon (14) UC Irvine* Xavier Nevada*
Tuscaloosa region
Alabama (15) West Virginia* Southeastern Louisiana* Fairfield*
Fort Worth region
TCU (16) Florida Virginia Wright State*
Last four in: Cal Poly, Texas Rio Grande Valley, Virginia, Xavier.
First four out: Western Kentucky, Creighton, Cincinnati, Texas A&M.
Team breakdown by conference: SEC (13), ACC (10), Big 12 (6), Big Ten (4), Sun Belt (3), Big East (2), Big West (2), Southland (2).
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