Posted on 05/28/2006 6:47:31 PM PDT by catholicfreeper
INDIANAPOLIS, IN - The NCAA Division I Baseball Committee announced all 16 regional sites for the 60th annual NCAA Division I Baseball Championship.
The 16 regional sites, with host institutions and records through Saturday, May 27, are as follows: Alabama (41-19), Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Arkansas (38-19), Fayetteville, Ark.; Cal St. Fullerton (41-13), Fullerton, Calif.; Clemson (46-14), Clemson, S.C.; Georgia (41-19), Athens, Ga.; Georgia Tech (45-16), Atlanta; Kentucky (42-15), Lexington, Ky.; Mississippi (39-20), Oxford, Miss.; Nebraska (42-14), Lincoln, Neb.; North Carolina (45-13), Chapel Hill, N.C.; Oklahoma (40-19), Norman, Okla.; Oregon St. (39-13), Corvallis, Oregon; Pepperdine (39-19), Malibu, Calif.; Rice (49-10), Houston; Texas (40-19), Austin, Texas; and Virginia (46-13), Charlottesville, Va.
By virtue of being awarded a regional, nine of the host institutions also have been selected as at-large teams to the 64-team field. Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Kentucky, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Texas and Virginia, have made the field as at-large selections. Clemson, Mississippi, Nebraska, Pepperdine, Rice, would clinch automatic berths by winning their conference tournament championship, which are scheduled for Sunday afternoon. A loss in those tournament championship games makes them an at-large selection. Cal St. Fullerton and Oregon St. already have clinched automatic berths by virtue of winning the Big West Conference and Pacific-10 Conference, respectively. Each regional field features four teams, playing a double-elimination format. All 16 regionals are scheduled to be conducted from Friday, June 2, to Monday, June 5.
Kentucky and Pepperdine will host a regional for the first time, while North Carolina, Oregon St. and Virginia are hosting for the second time in school history. This will be the 22nd time that Texas has hosted a regional, while Clemson (11th) is the only other institution to host 10 or more times since the NCAA went to the regional format in 1975. Georgia Tech is hosting a regional for the eighth time, while Cal St. Fullerton (sixth), Oklahoma (sixth overall and third time in Norman), Alabama (fifth), Nebraska (fifth), Rice (fifth), Georgia (three) and Mississippi (three) have hosted in the past as well.
Seven sites (Cal St. Fullerton, Clemson, Georgia Tech, Mississippi, Nebraska, Oregon St. and Texas) also hosted in 2005.
The remaining at-large teams, top-eight national seeds, first-round regional pairings and site assignments will be announced at 12:30 p.m. Eastern time, Monday, May 29, during a live, half-hour program on ESPN. The committee will set the entire 64-team bracket through both the super regionals and the first round of the Men's College World Series, and will not reseed the field after play begins. Selection of the eight super regional hosts will be announced on www.ncaasports.com, Monday, June 5 at approximately Midnight (ET).
Thirty Division I conferences receive an automatic berth in the field of 64, along with 34 at-large selections.
The 60th Men's College World Series begins play Friday, June 16, at Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha, Nebraska.
First time in 17 years that LSU isnt hosting a Regional(sigh) Well I hope we get an invite tomorrow.
Thanks for posting. Looking forward to watching some games.
No problem I am going to try to post some updates till the College World Series
1st Update. Ole MIss just won the SEC Tourney(Yuck)
GO LONGHORNS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GO TAR HEELS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hopefully at 11:30 tomorrow I can put the purple and gold one up lol
The tournament is historically double-elimination. One year they sold out to TV though. Ordinarily in a double-elimination tournament, the WOL (Winner of the Losers) has to beat the WOW (Winner of the Winners) twice. However TV didn't want to show 2 games so the WOL had to beat the WOW only once.
I thought I had heard that now they put the 8 finalists into 2 groups of 4, hold a double-elimination tournament for each set of 4, then one game determines the final champion. True?? The website explained only that the 64 finalists get whittled down to 16 and then 8 (what, 2 teams to each of 8 super-regionals, and they play each other best 2 of 3?) but not how the 8 get whittled down to 1.
speaking of SEC baseball...check out this video clip of the Arkansas catcher faking like he got hit with a pitch vs. Mississippi..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueLI3ALKfs4&search=ole%20miss%20
Oh yeah I saw that. Its like he should get a Emmy lol
At least you're in better shape than last year's national runner-ups.
I hope the Arkansas coach tore into the Arkansas catcher good (especially after seing the video & after he went out to defend him).
Right. 2 teams to each Super Regional and who wins 2 out of 3. So 8 go to the Worlds Series Yeah you have it right I think as to dividing the groups into double elimination brackets in the College World series
This is link to a pdf file showing the times of the games and aceduale for 2006.= in the CWS
http://www.cwsomaha.com/media/gameschedule.pdf
Yeah I was shocked by Florida this year. OF course the SEC is tough this year. Got 5 sec teams hosting. But when we played a few weeks ago we were pretty evenly matched lol
BTW, have you heard of this article that was in the commercial appeal where its reported that a current Football Coach in the sec has been turned by 6 coaches(not all in the SEC) for recruiting violations
Hmmm...by my calculations, it should take 14 or 15 games to whittle down 8 teams to 1 in a double-elimination tournament, and 6 or 7 to whittle down 4 teams to 1 in a double-elimination tournament. (So it would take 12-14 games for 2 such brackets). I see games 13 and 14 are declared "if necessary."
So it would appear that the final two teams play best two-of-three for the championship rather than the WOL having to beat the WOW twice or the WOW having to beat the WOL only once in a two game set.
Hmmm...by my calculations, it should take 14 or 15 games to whittle down 8 teams to 1 in a double-elimination tournament, and 6 or 7 to whittle down 4 teams to 1 in a double-elimination tournament. (So it would take 12-14 games for 2 such brackets). I see games 13 and 14 are declared "if necessary."
So it would appear that the final two teams play best two-of-three for the championship rather than the WOL having to beat the WOW twice or the WOW having to beat the WOL only once in a two game set.
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