INDIANAPOLIS — The Atlantic Coast Conference and Southeastern Conference each had five schools selected Sunday as regional hosts for the NCAA Division I baseball tournament.
All 16 regional hosts announced by the Division I Baseball Committee secured spots in the national tournament. The rest of the 64-team field and first-round matchups will be announced Monday.
Clemson (41-14), Florida State (42-15), North Carolina State (33-20), North Carolina (42-13) and Virginia (41-15) led the way for the ACC as hosts of the four . team, double elimination regionals. It is the 36th time Florida State has hosted, the most in NCAA Division I history.
Tennessee (50-11), which won the SEC tournament and will host a regional tournament, is expected to be the No. 1 overall seed for the NCAA tournament. Arkansas (43-14), Georgia (39-15), Kentucky (40-14) and Texas A&M (44-13) were also selected as SEC host sites.
Also hosting regionals scheduled from Friday to next Monday: Oklahoma (37-19), for the first time since 2010, and Oklahoma State (40-17), of the Big 12; Arizona (36-21) and Oregon State (42-14) of the Pac-12; East Carolina (43-15) of the American Athletic Conference; and UC Santa Barbara (42-12) of the Big West.
It is the second time UC Santa Barbara has hosted a regional conference, but the first on campus, after holding it at the neutral site of Lake Elsinore in 2015.
The 16 regional winners advance to the best-of-three super regionals, and those eight winners will go to the College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska, starting June 14.
