Big 12 Teams In The NCAA Baseball Tournament: Where Would They Land Today?

Let's say the 2023 college baseball season ends today. In about seven weeks, we'll be officially seeding these teams for the NCAA Tournament, beginning with the Regionals. A lot can and will happen between now and then. But where do these teams stand today?

Let's dive right into it.

Who Makes The Cut?

In total, 64 teams nationally make the NCAA baseball tournament. They're broken up into 16 four-team pods, who play a Round Robin-style, double-elimination tournament. The winner from each region then plays a winner of another region in a three-game series. Of those 16 Super Regional teams, the eight winners advance to the College World Series.

31 teams make the tournament via auto-bid, which means they won their conference tournament. The 33 others are at-large bids, which are selected by the committee.

Last year, five teams made the regionals and two – Oklahoma and Texas – made it all the way to Omaha.

After Week 8, six conferences are represented in College Baseball Nation's top 50 teams, meaning we'll assume those six win their conference. Included is Texas Tech, our Big 12 auto-bid.

Per those rankings the Big 12 teams that would make the NCAA Tournament today might be:

Texas Tech (auto)
TCU
Oklahoma State
Texas
West Virginia (last four in)

NCAA Tournament: Week 8 Regional Hosts

To understand where and how our Big 12 teams will be seeded, we have to take a look at which 16 teams would be hosting a regional. After Week 8, the top 16 teams in College Baseball Nation's rankings are:

LSU (Baton Rouge)
Wake Forest (Winston-Salem)
Florida (Gainesville)
Vanderbilt (Nashville)
Arkansas (Fayetteville)
South Carolina (Columbia)
Stanford (Stanford)
Virginia (Charlottesville)
Louisville (Louisville)
Campbell (Buies Creek)
East Carolina (Greenville)
North Carolina (Chapel Hill)
UConn (East Hartford)
Boston College (Chestnut Hill)
UCLA (Los Angeles)
Tennessee (Knoxville)

(Names of Regionals)

Each year since 2016, a Big 12 team hosted a super regional. With a few teams on the precipice of the top 16, it's not impossible that the NCAA Committee ranks one of them over another fringe team like Tennessee or Boston College. But for simplicity's sake, the Big 12 doesn't host a regional if the tournament were to begin today.

Big 12 Team Placement

To be as balanced as possible, the NCAA Committee roughly places the higher seeds after 16 in reverse order. So – again, roughly – No. 17 plays in the No. 16 regional, No. 18 in No. 15 and so on.

A couple other parameters: They do seed with regards to geographic proximity, as well (note that this isn't always the case, as Oregon played in the Louisville regional last year). Teams from the same conference won't be paired in the same regional pod.

With that logic and using College Baseball Nation's top 50, our five Big 12 representatives would be seeded as follows:

Texas Tech: No. 2 seed in Los Angeles Regional
TCU: No. 2 seed in Louisville Regional
Oklahoma State: No. 2 seed in Fayetteville Regional
Texas: No. 2 seed in Nashville Regional
West Virginia: No. 3 seed in Charlottesville Regional

There's a ton of baseball yet to be played and certainly this seeding will shake up. Stick around with KillerFrogs for complete coverage of the college baseball postseason.

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