By: James Gravley | WV Sports Chat
D1Baseball has released its latest Field of 64 predictions as we are now one day away from Opening Day.
Bids by conference: SEC (13), ACC (10), Big 12 (7), Big Ten (4), Sun Belt (3), Big West (3), American (2), Conference USA (1).
From D1Baseball:
One thing to keep in mind with the way NCAA tournament seedings now operate: The NCAA Baseball Selection Committee will now rank the Top 32 teams, with 17-32 teams being grouped in pods as two seeds with the Top 16 seeds. For instance, teams in the 29-32 range will go national seeds in the No’s 1-4 range, teams in the 25-28 range will go to national seeds No’s 5-8, teams in the 21-24 range will go to national seeds in the No’s 9-12 range and teams in the 17-20 range will be two seeds at the No’s 13-16 regionals. It is worth noting two things: geographical considerations still. That will naturally cause some seeding manipulation during the process.
With that, below are the seven Big 12 teams making the Field of 64. The only host out of the Big 12 is TCU. How a team is named in the () is what their seed is in that respect regional.
Kansas – Tallahassee Regional
(Florida State, Southern Miss, Kansas, Wright State)
Oklahoma State – Baton Rouge Regional
(LSU, UC Irvine, Oklahoma State, Bryant)
Kansas State – Athens Regional
(Georgia, Clemson, Kansas State, Rhode Island)
Arizona State – Starkville Regional
(Mississippi State, Virginia, Arizona State, Fairfield)
Arizona – Fayetteville Regional
(Arkansas, Arizona, Notre Dame, Little Rock)
TCU (host) – Fort Worth Regional
(TCU, Texas A&M, Cal Poly, Oral Roberts)
West Virginia – Louisville Regional
(Louisville, WVU, Murray State)
With this Field of 64 prediction TCU, Kansas, and West Virginia would all likely advance to a Super Regional and would have extremely high odds to make it to Omaha.
Photo: NCAA.com
