The 2017 NCAA baseball tournament field was announced Monday, and Oregon State has earned the field’s top overall seed. The Beavers held steady atop most national rankings all year, aided in most part by lights-out pitching. Last year’s tournament champs, the Coastal Carolina Chanticleers, failed to make the postseason field.
NCAA baseball tournament bracket 2017: Oregon State grabs top national seed
Miami and South Carolina are this year’s biggest snubs.
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According to the selection committee, this year’s biggest bid stealers were Auburn and Texas A&M out of the SEC, as well as Michigan and, most surprisingly, UCLA with just 30 wins. UConn, Old Dominion, and South Carolina were among the first four out, a group which included Miami, which has missed selection for the first time in 44 seasons — the longest postseason streak in the sport.
The Big Ten, ACC, Big 12 and SEC are the most represented conferences this year, sending five, seven, seven, and eight teams to the field of 64, respectively. The top eight national seeds represent just four conferences this year: the SEC, ACC, Pac-12, and Big 12 all grabbed two national seeds, with Florida earning its 10th-straight tournament bid.
The eight national seed hosting sites are paired off with eight others mostly depending on geography (the Louisville regional is paired with the Lexington regional, for instance). The national seeds retain hosting rights through the super regional round, where they’ll play the winner of the their regional pairing in a best of three series. The eight winners of the super regional round will then travel to Omaha for the College World Series proper, where they’re again paired off into two groups of eight. The two winners of those four-team mini-tournaments then face off in a best of three series on the tournament’s closing weekend.
Below are this year’s eight national seeds and regional breakdown for the field of 64.
National Seeds
No 1 Oregon State
No. 2 North Carolina
No. 3 Florida
No. 4 LSU
No. 5 Texas Tech
No. 6 TCU
No. 7 Louisville
No. 8 Stanford
Regional sites and seeds (national seeds in parentheses)
Baton Rouge, La.
No. 1 LSU (4)
No. 2 Southeastern Louisiana
No. 3 Rice
No. 4 Texas Southern
Chapel Hill, N.C.
No. 1 UNC (2)
No. 2 FGCU
No. 3 Michigan
No. 4 Davidson
Clemson, S.C.
No. 1 Clemson
No. 2 Vanderbilt
No. 3 St. John’s
No. 4 UNC Greensboro
Corvallis, Or.
No. 1 Oregon State (1)
No. 2 Nebraska
No. 3 Yale
No. 4 Holy Cross
Fayetteville, Ark.
No. 1 Arkansas
No. 2 Missouri State
No. 3 Oklahoma State
No. 4 Oral Roberts
Fort Worth, Texas
No. 1 TCU (6)
No. 2 Virginia
No. 3 Dallas Baptist
No. 4 Central Connecticut State
Gainesville, Fla.
No. 1 Florida (3)
No. 2 South Florida
No. 3 Bethune-Cookman
No. 4 Marist
Hattiesburg, Miss.
No. 1 Southern Miss
No. 2 Mississippi State
No. 3 South Alabama
No. 4 Illinois-Chicago
Houston, Texas
No 1. Houston
No. 2 Baylor
No. 3 Texas A&M
No. 4 Iowa
Lexington, Ky.
No. 1 Kentucky
No. 2 Indiana
No. 3 NC State
No. 4 Ohio
Long Beach, Calif.
No. 1 Long Beach State
No. 2 Texas
No. 3 UCLA
No. 4 San Diego State
Louisville, Ky.
No. 1 Louisville (7)
No. 2 Oklahoma
No. 3 Xavier
No. 4 Radford
Lubbock, Texas
No. 1 Texas Tech (5)
No. 2 Arizona
No. 3 Sam Houston State
No. 4 Delaware
Stanford, Calif.
No. 1 Stanford (8)
No. 2 Cal-State Fullerton
No. 3 BYU
No. 4 Sacramento State
Tallahassee, Fla.
No. 1 FSU
No. 2 UCF
No. 3 Auburn
No. 4 Tennessee Tech
Winston-Salem, N.C.
No. 1 Wake Forest
No. 2 West Virginia
No. 3 Maryland
No. 4 UMBC
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