Regional Sites Announced

The NCAA has released the 16 regional hosts for the upcoming 64 team tournament. There are no major surprises as Coastal Carolina and San Diego each got a regional. The full release from the NCAA is available here.

Host School and Location of Regional
Arizona St. (43-13), Tempe, Ariz.
Arkansas (41-18), Fayetteville, Ark.
Coastal Caro. (48-11), Myrtle Beach, S.C.
Florida St. (47-11), Tallahassee, Fla.
Long Beach St. (36-18), Long Beach, Calif.
Missouri (40-16), Columbia, Mo.
North Carolina (47-12), Chapel Hill, N.C.
Ole Miss (37-23), Oxford, Miss.
Rice (48-12), Houston, Texas
San Diego (42-16), San Diego, CA (at San Diego State)
South Carolina (42-18), Columbia, S.C.
Texas (44-15), Round Rock, Texas
Texas A&M (43-16), College Station, Texas
Vanderbilt (50-11), Nashville, Tenn
Virginia (43-14), Charlottesville, Va.
Wichita St. (49-19), Wichita, Kan.

SeBaseball Regional Projections

SEBaseball has updated their regional projections as of Saturday evening. The full projections are available by clicking here. I did Regional Projections last week that can be found here.

Sunbelt Tourney Day 1 Recap

The Sunbelt tournament started yesterday with the following games at South Alabama. A recap of the full game is available at The Daily Advertiser. Click here for a full day recap.

Middle Tennessee 6 Florida Atlantic 1

Recap

New Orleans 11 Western Kentucky 6

Recap

Troy 7 Louisiana-Monroe 0

Recap

Louisiana 3 South Alabama 2
(10 innings)

Recap
The Daily Advertiser Game Article

There has also been some talk about the Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns hosting a NCAA Regional in the first round of the upcoming tournament. The full article can be found here. My projections have Louisiana going to Arkansas for the NCAA Regionals. The projections are available here.

NCAA releases RPI rankings

The NCAA has now released its first official RPI rankings. The list includes games through May 21.

The complete rankings can be found here.

NCAA Regional Projections

I was asked by The College Endzone to write up a Regional Projection article. I put Vanderbilt as the number 1 seed in the entire tournament behind the tandem of Pedro Alvarez and David Price. The full article is available here. Feel free to post your feedback in the comments section or on the message board at The College Endzone.