20 Regional Host Sites for NCAA Baseball Regionals announced; 16 will be chosen

[joeywa]

Per d1baseball.com, the NCAA announced the 20 potential sites this morning.

Of the 20, 16 will be ultimately chosen.


Potential Regional Hosts


Arizona (Tucson)
Arkansas (Fayetteville)
Charlotte (Gastonia*)
East Carolina (Greenville)
Florida (Gainesville)
Gonzaga (Spokane)
Louisiana Tech (Ruston)
Mississippi State (Starkville)
Notre Dame (South Bend)
Ole Miss (Oxford)
Oregon (Eugene)
Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh)
South Carolina (Columbia)
Southern Miss (Hattiesburg)
Stanford (Stanford)
Tennessee (Knoxville)
Texas (Austin)
Texas Tech (Lubbock)
TCU (Fort Worth)
Vanderbilt (Nashville)

Great recap here: D1 Baseball Regional Host Breakdown

As you can see, Texas is listed, and is almost guaranteed to be a host site.  I believe the NCAA has said that capacity will be limited to 50% for the Regionals, Super Regionals and CWS.  That could obviously change over the next couple of weeks, but I'm not certain that it will.

 

[joeywa]

Official Announcement from NCAA

INDIANAPOLIS — The NCAA Division I Baseball Committee today announced 20 predetermined preliminary-round sites for this year’s Division I Baseball Championship.

Due to the health and safety protocols surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, it was deemed necessary to conduct NCAA championship competition at predetermined sites. Of the 20 selected sites, the committee will choose 16 to host regional-round games. Eight of those 16 regional sites will host super regionals.

The 20 potential host site schools are as follows:





Arizona


Oregon




Arkansas


Pittsburgh




Charlotte


South Carolina




East Carolina


Southern Mississippi




Florida


Stanford




Gonzaga


TCU




Louisiana Tech


Tennessee




Mississippi State


Texas




Notre Dame


Texas Tech




Ole Miss


Vanderbilt





“Certainly, this has been a unique season, but the committee is very appreciative of all of the schools that submitted bids to host. We received a number of quality bids from schools around the country that were interested in being a part of this championship, including a few potential first-time hosts,” said Jeff Altier, chair of the committee and director of athletics at Stetson. “We are extremely excited to bring the Division I Baseball Championship back in 2021 and let the student-athletes, coaches and fans once again experience this terrific event.”

Based on recent guidance from the NCAA COVID-19 Medical Advisory Group, the NCAA will allow up to 50% fan capacity at these predetermined sites. Exact capacity percentages will vary by site, depending on state and local health mandates due to the pandemic.

The designation of predetermined sites will have no bearing on the teams selected to participate or for seeding in the 2021 Division I Baseball Championship. The championship field will consist of 30 conference automatic qualifiers and 34 at-large qualifiers.

The final 16 predetermined sites will be revealed at 8:30 p.m. Eastern time Sunday, May 30.

The bracket and pairings for the 2021 Division I Baseball Championship will be released at noon Eastern time Monday, May 31, on ESPN2.

All games of the 2021 NCAA Division I Baseball Championship will be broadcast on ESPN’s family of networks, starting with regionals June 4-7 and followed by super regionals June 11-14. The 2021 championship will culminate June 19-29/30 with the Men’s College World Series at TD Ameritrade Park Omaha in Omaha, Nebraska.

 

[Soldierhorn]

Taking it a little further... 



I like this Massey composite ranking and it's interesting to look back to see which service was the most accurate.  

The Moore power rantings has Texas #1 with B12 & sec as the dominate conferences.  

Baseball America is the outlier here ranking Texas 7th... but I'll take it. 

4 Texas
5 TCU
7 Texas Tech 
26 Oklahoma St
30 Baylor 
50 Oklahoma 
80 Kansas St 
93 Kansas
106 West Virginia

Interesting that...

48 Texas A&M 
62 Nebraska 
147 Missouri
Colorado (not listed)

 

[Soldierhorn]

"PROJECTED"  field of 64...



Not that I care about any of them but it interesting that they have Nebbie in but Okiehoma & agroids are not with arguably much better ratings

 

[Soldierhorn]

Continued...

 

[joeywa]

Baseball America is regarded as somewhat of a joke when It comes to college baseball. It’s almost like they don’t watch it. 

 

[joeywa]

Texas up to #2 today in D1 Baseball Rankings.


Horns up to #2

 

[joeywa]

Also, updated D1 Baseball RPI

Texas at #2 in RPI as well.

 

[Jameson McCausland]

If Texas wins their series against West Virginia, they are likely a lock to be a national seed regardless of what happens in the Big 12 tournament. They are in a great spot right now after the results from this past weekend. 

 

[Soldierhorn]

D1 Basball's new TOP 25....





Looks like Texas winning the TCU series on the road was a big deal. Ended up as a +9  swing for Texas between the two (UT+3, TCU-6). TCU then losing the series to ULM was a bad look.

For those that are not accustomed to reading this the aggy way, aggy is listed at #1, #3, #4, #9, & #10, thus 5x more than the Longhorns

 

[Soldierhorn]

The Massy Composite has three of the top five from the Big 12. 

Texas still holding the #1 ranking from the Moore Computer rankings.

oSu still in the top 20 at #12

 

[joeywa]

Rainout tonight means the regular season finale begins Thursday. 

 

[TB14]

We think the weather will hold up this weekend?

 

[joeywa]

We think the weather will hold up this weekend?

Games will be played. Weather will be worked around. 

 

[Soldierhorn]

Games will be played. Weather will be worked around. 

They could have "practiced" in the rain on tuesday.  Give away a steak dinner to whomever could catch a high fly tennis ball AND do the longest belly slide in the outfield or something like that.  make some videos and have fun - just dont get hurt.

 

[joeywa]

They could have "practiced" in the rain on tuesday.  Give away a steak dinner to whomever could catch a high fly tennis ball AND do the longest belly slide in the outfield or something like that.  make some videos and have fun - just dont get hurt.

They got their reps in inside the practice facility. 

 

[Soldierhorn]

They got their reps in inside the practice facility. 

You're no fun

 

[joeywa]

By the way, capacity restrictions lifted at Disch beginning tonight. 
 

100% capacity for the series vs WVU. 

 

[Soldierhorn]

Texas still holds on to #2 in the Massey composite, even after losing a game to a weak WVU team at home.  I'm surprised that TCU fell all the way down to 11th



FYI, 
#34 Baylor 
#47 Okiehoma
#64 KSU
#84 KU
#93 WVU

#30 Nebbie leaped almost 30 positions over aggy and Baylor by winning the weak B10
#39 Dallas Baptist
#60 aggy
#78 UTSA
#92 Abilene Christian
109 SamHoustonState
131 Mizzy
144 Rice
180 Texas St
190 Houston