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.
Last edited by docetboy; 05-29-2006 at 01:25 PM.
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