Sort of OT: NCAA Baseball Tournament field announced

[KnightMatt8]

Houston is hosting a Regional (maybe the American's best chance of getting a team into a Super Regional). ECU will play down in Coral Gables. Tulane is heading to Baton Rouge. USF will be in an all-Florida Gainesville Regional. The American got only four bids even though the conference is ranked 3rd in the country in terms of RPI.

Here are the first game matchups (AAC teams listed in color)

CORAL GABLES REGIONAL
Alex Rodriguez Park at Mark Light Field (Coral Gables, Fla.)
Friday, May 29
No. 3 Columbia vs. No. 2 East Carolina (1 p.m. on ESPN3)
No. 1 *Miami (FL) vs. No. 4 FIU (7 p.m. on ESPN3)

GAINESVILLE REGIONAL
Alfred A. McKethan Stadium (Gainesville, Fla.)
Friday, May 29
No. 3 South Florida vs. No. 2 Florida Atlantic (1 p.m. on ESPN3)
No. 1 *Florida vs. No. 4 Florida A&M (7 p.m. on SEC Network)

BATON ROUGE REGIONAL
Alex Box Stadium, Skip Bertman Field (Baton Rouge, La.)
Friday, May 29
No. 1 *LSU vs. No. 4 Lehigh (4 p.m. SEC Network)
No. 3 Tulane vs. No. 2 UNCW (8 p.m. on ESPN3)

HOUSTON REGIONAL
Cougar Field (Houston)
Friday, May 29
No. Louisiana Lafayette vs. No. 2 Rice (3:30 on ESPN3)
No. 1 Houston vs. No. 4 Houston Baptist (8 p.m. on ESPN3)

 

[HammerB08]

Look at all these Florida teams on the road to Omaha. Rooney just turned off onto the road to the unemployment line.

 

[Retnuhrace]

A terrible look that basically every Florida school is in except us.

 

[KnightMatt8]

Yep, we're in great company with Bethune Cookman, Stetson, and Florida Gulf Coast, all of whom also failed to make it to the Regionals. One more year for Rooney . . . if we don't at least get to a Super Regional in 2016, then