NCAA Tournament Baseball Bracket Revealed

With the Major League Draft coming up in mid-July, now might be a good time to start following college baseball. The NCAA Tournament begins on Friday, June 2nd.

With the Major League Baseball Draft coming up in mid-July (July 9-11), now might be a good time to start familiarizing yourself with college baseball and draft prospects.

The NCAA Tournament bracket was revealed on Monday and play begins on Friday, June 2nd, with the regionals.

The tournament works as follows:

1) There are 64 teams in total in the tournament. The tournament is divided into 16, four-team "pods." Each four-team pod plays a double-elimination tournament with the winner moving on.

2) The 16 regional winners move on to "Super Regionals." There will be eight Super Regional sites of two teams each. They will play a best-of-three series.

3) The eight winners of the Super Regionals advance to Omaha, Nebraska for the College World Series.

The 16 regional host universities/sites are as follows:

• Auburn, Alabama – Auburn (34-21-1)
• Baton Rouge, Louisiana – LSU (43-15)
• Charlottesville, Virginia – Virginia (45-12)
• Clemson, South Carolina – Clemson (43-17)
• Columbia, South Carolina – South Carolina (39-19)
• Conway, South Carolina – Coastal Carolina (39-19)
• Coral Gables, Florida – Miami (FL) (40-19)
• Fayetteville, Arkansas – Arkansas (41-16)
• Gainesville, Florida – Florida (44-14)
• Lexington, Kentucky – Kentucky (36-18)
• Nashville, Tennessee – Vanderbilt (41-18)
• Stanford, California – Stanford (38-16)
• Stillwater, Oklahoma – Oklahoma State (41-17) through games of 5/28
• Terre Haute, Indiana – Indiana State (42-15)
• Tuscaloosa, Alabama – Alabama (40-19)
• Winston-Salem, North Carolina – Wake Forest (47-10)

Here is the tournament bracket:

The full schedule for the tournament is as follows:

• Selection show: Monday, May 29 — aired at 12 p.m. ET on ESPN2
• Regionals: Friday-Monday, June 2-5
• Super regionals: Friday-Sunday, June 9-11 or Saturday-Monday, June 10-12
• First day of MCWS games: Start Friday, June 16
• MCWS finals: Saturday-Monday, June 24-26
• Final championship game: Monday, June 26

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