Indianapolis – The NCAA Division I Baseball Committee has announced 16 regional sites for the 77th NCAA Division I Baseball Championship.
The 16 regional sites, host institutions, and records are as follows:
- Athens, Georgia – Georgia (39-15)
- Chapel Hill, NC – North Carolina (42-13)
- Charlottesville, VA – Virginia (41-15)
- Clemson, South Carolina – Clemson (41-14)
- Bryan-College Station, TX – Texas A&M (44-13)
- Corvallis, Oregon – Oregon State University (42-14)
- Fayetteville, AR – Arkansas (43-14)
- Greenville, NC – East Carolina (43-15)
- Knoxville, Tennessee – Tennessee (50-11)
- Lexington, KY – Kentucky (40-14)
- Norman, Oklahoma – Oklahoma (37-19)
- Raleigh, North Carolina – NC State University (33-20)
- Santa Barbara, California – University of California, Santa Barbara (42-12)
- Stillwater, Oklahoma – Oklahoma State University (40-17)
- Tallahassee, FL – Florida State University (42-15)
- Tucson, Arizona – Arizona (36-21)
By qualifying for the regional tournament, all 16 host schools were also selected to compete on the 64-team championship field.
Each Regional Tournament will have four teams competing in a double-elimination bracket. All 16 Regional Tournaments are scheduled to run from Friday, May 31st through Monday, June 3rd (if necessary).
This will be the second time UC Santa Barbara has hosted the event, but the first time in Santa Barbara (the neutral site of Lake Elsinore was the host in 2015).
Florida State will host the baseball regional tournament for the 36th time in tournament history, the most by a university, while Oklahoma State will host for the first time since 2010.
Arkansas, Clemson, Kentucky, Oklahoma State and Virginia are each hosting regional tournaments in 2023, with Oklahoma State hosting for the third consecutive year.
All 64 teams, the top 16 national seeds, first-round regional matchups and venue assignments will be announced at noon ET on Monday, May 27. The hour-long program will air live on ESPN2. The committee will set brackets for all 64 teams through both the Super Regional tournaments and the first round of the Men’s College World Series and will not change the seeding of the field after play has begun.
Selections for the eight Super Regional sites will be announced on Tuesday, June 4 at 10 a.m. ET at www.NCAA.com/mcws .
There are 30 schools in Division I conferences, with 64 schools automatically qualified and 34 more at-large selections. The Men’s College World Series will open on Friday, June 14, at Charles Schwab Field Omaha in Omaha, Nebraska.
| meeting | Number of regional sites |
|---|---|
| Atlantic Coast | 5th (Clemson, Florida State, North Carolina State, University of North Carolina, Virginia) |
| Southeast | 5 (Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Texas A&M) |
| Big 12 | 2 (Oklahoma, Oklahoma) |
| Pack 12 | 2 (Arizona, Oregon) |
| American | 1 (East Carolina) |
| Big West | 1 (University of California, Santa Barbara) |
