NCAA baseball tournament 2017 Selection Show live stream: Time, TV schedule, and how to watch online

The 2017 NCAA baseball tournament runs up through June 28, when this year’s champion will be crowned in a best-of-three series in Omaha, Neb. The opening regional weekend of the tournament begins with 64 teams divided into 16 regional sites, where they play a round-robin style mini-tournament. Lose twice and you’re done.

But before all that, the field of 64 teams needs to be filled out and seeded. Last weekend saw the sport’s conference tournaments play out across the country. Thirty-one teams that won their conference tilts will earn automatic bids to the tourney, with the other 33 teams needing to wait until Selection Monday to see where they land. Sixteen teams earn seeds, and those will be the host teams for each of the opening weekend’s regional bouts.

Last year’s national champions, the Coastal Carolina Chanticleers, stunned the NCAA baseball world by winning the tournament outright in their first trip to Omaha in program history. They became the first team to pull off such a feat since Minnesota did so in 1956. Gary Gilmore’s outfit finished the 2017 regular season with a 37-18-1 overall record (22-12-1 in Sun Belt). The loss of a number of players to the MLB draft — which always takes place dead smack in the middle of the college baseball tournament — may prevent the Chants from seeing Omaha for the second year in a row.

2016’s other finalist, the Arizona Wildcats, finished the season with a 36-17 overall record (15-12 in Pac-12). They are also missing some key pieces from last year’s darlings of Omaha. Flame-throwing third baseman and right-handed pitcher Bobby Dalbec, for instance, has gone to the Greenville Drive, the Boston Red Sox’s single-A affiliate of the South Atlantic League. Picked to finish ninth in the Pac-12 last year, Jay Johnson’s club has designs on a repeat showing in this year’s finals.

Below is all you need to know to watch the Selection Monday show.

When: Monday, May 29, Noon, ET
TV: ESPN2
Online streaming: WatchESPN