2006 NCAA Baseball Tournament - The Road to Omaha
 

As the Conferences finish up their tournaments, it's time for the Regionals, Super-Regionals, and the College World Series of the College Baseball Tournament.

The sites for the 16 regional tournaments have been announced. Each team will recieve an automatic bid regardless of if they win their conference tournament.

The 16 regional sites, with host institutions and records through Saturday, May 27, are as follows (notice the lack of Florida teams!!!):
Alabama (41-19), Tuscaloosa, Ala.;
Arkansas (38-19), Fayetteville, Ark.;
Cal St. Fullerton (41-13), Fullerton, Calif.;
Clemson (46-14), Clemson, S.C.;
Georgia (41-19), Athens, Ga.;
Georgia Tech (45-16), Atlanta;
Kentucky (42-15), Lexington, Ky.;
Mississippi (39-20), Oxford, Miss.;
Nebraska (42-14), Lincoln, Neb.;
North Carolina (45-13), Chapel Hill, N.C.;
Oklahoma (40-19), Norman, Okla.;
Oregon St. (39-13), Corvallis, Oregon;
Pepperdine (39-19), Malibu, Calif.;
Rice (49-10), Houston;
Texas (40-19), Austin, Texas;
and Virginia (46-13), Charlottesville, Va.

The remaining at-large teams, top-eight national seeds, first-round regional pairings and site assignments will be announced at 12:30 p.m. Eastern time, Monday, May 29, during a live, half-hour program on ESPN. The committee will set the entire 64-team bracket through both the super regionals and the first round of the Men's College World Series, and will not reseed the field after play begins. Selection of the eight super regional hosts will be announced on www.ncaasports.com, Monday, June 5 at approximately Midnight (ET).

Thirty Division I conferences receive an automatic berth in the field of 64, along with 34 at-large selections.

The 60th Men's College World Series begins play Friday, June 16, at Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha, Nebraska.

"Notice the lack of Florida teams"...?

First time in 30 years. Your point is...? FSU and Miami are in regionals, however.

I'm officially a fan of ALL the ACC teams from here on out. If my Seminoles can't get to Omaha, we have a few candidates who likely will show up at Rosenblatt.

Go Ole Miss Rebels! SEC Baseball Champs 2006!

Ole Miss will be hosting the Oxford Regional and the teams coming here are Tulane, South Alabama, Ole Miss, & Bethune-Cookman College. :)

Ladies and Gentlemen, your field of 64:

NATIONAL SEEDS:
(1) Clemson (2) Rice (3) Texas (4) Alabama
(5) Cal State Fullerton (6) Nebraska (7) Georgia (8) Georgia Tech


Clemson Regional
(1) Clemson (2) Elon (3) Mississippi St (4) UNC Asheville

Fayatteville Regional
(1) Oklahoma State (2) Arkansas (3) Oral Roberts (4) Princeton

Lexington Regional
(1) Kentucky (2) College of Charleston (3) Notre Dame (4) Ball State

Atlanta Regional
(1) Georgia Tech (2) Vanderbilt (3) Michigan (4) Stetson

Fullerton Regional
(1) Cal State Fullerton (2) Fresno State (3) San Diego (4) St Louis

Malibu Regional
(1) Pepperdine (2) UCLA (3) UC Irvine (4) Missouri

Chapel Hill Regional
(1) North Carolina (2) Winthrop (3) UNC Wilmington (4) Maine

Tuscaloose Regional
(1) Alabama (2) Troy (3) Southern Miss. (4) Jacksonville State

Houston Regional
(1) Rice (2) Arizona State (3) Baylor (4) Prairie View

Norman Regional
(1) Oklahoma (2) Houston (3) Wichita State (4) TCU

Charlottseville Regional
(1) Virginia (2) South Carolina (3) Evansville (4) Lehigh

Athens Regional
(1) Georgia (2) Florida State (3) Jacksonville (4) Sacred Heart

Lincoln Regional
(1) Nebraska (2) Miami (3) San Fransisco (4) Manhattan

Oxford Regional
(1) Mississippi (2) Tulane (3) South (Ala.) (4) Bethune-Cookman

Corvallis Regional
(1) Oregon State (2) Kansas (3) Hawaii (4) Wright State

Austin Regional
(1) Texas (2) North Carolina State (3) Stanford (4) Texas Arlington

The SEC leads all conferences in the number of teams in the championship field with eight, followed by the Atlantic Coast and Big 12 with seven each. The Pacific-10 and Conference USA have four teams each.

Twenty-nine of the 64 teams were not in the field last year, including Lehigh (automatic qualifier), UNC Asheville (automatic qualifier), Prairie View (automatic qualifier), San Francisco (at-large) and Sacred Heart (automatic qualifier), making the championship for the first time. Manhattan was last in the field in 1957, while St. Louis is in the field for the first time since 1966 and Ball State's last appearance was 1969.

Miami is in the field for the 34th consecutive year, extending its own record. Florida St. is making its 29th straight appearance, second all-time. Other long consecutive streaks: Clemson (20), Cal St. Fullerton (15), Stanford (13) and Rice (12).

Of the 285 championship eligible Division I institutions which sponsor baseball, Rice has the most Division I wins with 49. Twenty-five other teams won at least 40 Division I contests and 24 are in the field.

my huskers are 2 & 'que...which is incredibly sad and frustrating...

they just hit a slump so bad starting about 5 weeks ago. We had a HR against Okie State after coming all the way back that would have won the game for us get overturned and it seemed like after that we were a different team. The bats went so cold, that I probably could have surrounded a keg with them and enjoyed cold beer for days...(I'm not sure where that came from)...

Seriously, when you have a player who through the first 2/3 of the season was hitting about .380, and his final average for the season is .260, something is whack.

Ditto that, Beta. I, naturally, was rooting hard for Nebraska. I went to the series finale at Austin in April, and that sadly was the last series Nebraska looked good...we pulled out a 6-0 win that day, and took the series 2-1 from Texas.

I'm rooting for all the Big XII teams now, except Texas of course :)

go Cal State Fullerton. Win one for the Cal State system you jerks.


btw. I am really enjoying the softball world series as well.

I think the U of A team is filled with models, while Kat Osterman is half woman half dear

Two and out S.O.B...:(

GO OLE MISS REBELS! We find out tonight if we get to host the super regional!