Field for the NCAA Baseball Tournament is set with three teams from South Carolina on the road to Omaha

Three teams. Two locations. Zero national seeds. That sums up the influence of the state of South Carolina on the NCAA Baseball Tournament bracket which was announced on Monday.

Clemson, Coastal Carolina and Upstate will represent the Palmetto State. Clemson was named the #11 national seed, and Coastal was slotted at #13. Both were named regional hosts on Sunday night.

Clemson (44-16) will face Upstate in their first game of the regional at Doug Kingsmore Stadium. That game will have a 6:00 PM start and will be televised on the ACC Network.

The Spartans won the Big South regular season and tournament championships and are 36-23. The teams played at Fluor Field in Greenville on March 4th with the Tigers taking a 7-0 victory.

West Virginia (41-14) and Kentucky (29-24) will be the other two teams in the regional. They will meet at noon on Friday with the game set for ESPNU.

The winner of the Clemson Regional will face the winner from the LSU Regional.

Coastal Carolina won the Sun Belt Tournament championship over the weekend and is 48-11. The Chants and Northeastern will go into the tournament with the most wins.

The Chants will face Fairfield (39-17) in their opener Friday at 6:00 PM on ESPN+.

Florida (38-20) is the #2 seed for the regional and will face East Carolina (33-25) at noon on ESPN2.

The winner of the Coastal Regional will face the winner from the Auburn Regional in the Super Regionals.

Top 16 National Seeds

NCAA Tournament Bracket

NCAA Baseball Tournament Schedule

FIELD BY CONFERENCE (29)

  • Southeastern 13 (Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, LSU, Mississippi State, Oklahoma, Ole Miss, Tennessee, Texas, Vanderbilt)
  • Atlantic Coast 9 (Clemson, Duke, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Louisville, Miami (Florida), NC State, North Carolina, Wake Forest)
  • Big 12 8 (Arizona, Arizona State, Cincinnati, Kansas, Kansas State, Oklahoma State, TCU, West Virginia)
  • Big Ten 4 (Nebraska, Oregon, Southern California, UCLA)
  • American 2 (East Carolina, UTSA)
  • Sun Belt 2 (Coastal Carolina, Southern Mississippi)
  • Big West 2 (Cal Poly, UC Irvine)
  • Conference USA 2 (DBU, Western Kentucky)
  • America East 1 (Binghamton)
  • Atlantic-10 1 (Rhode Island)
  • ASUN 1 (Stetson)
  • Big East 1 (Creighton)
  • Big South 1 (USC Upstate)
  • Coastal 1 (Northeastern)
  • Horizon 1 (Wright State)
  • Ivy 1 (Columbia)
  • Metro Atlantic 1 (Fairfield)
  • Mid-American 1 [Miami (Ohio)]
  • Missouri Valley 1 (Murray State)
  • Mountain West 1 (Fresno State)
  • Northeast 1 (Central Connecticut State)
  • Ohio Valley 1 (Little Rock)
  • Patriot 1 (Holy Cross)
  • Southern 1 (ETSU)
  • Southland 1 (Houston Christian)
  • SWAC 1 (Bethune-Cookman)
  • Summit 1 (North Dakota State)
  • West Coast 1 [Saint Mary’s (CA)]
  • Western Athletic 1 (Utah Valley)

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