Is the NCAA baseball tournament single or double-elimination? Putting the NCAA format under the microscope
The 2024 NCAA baseball tournament is just around the corner. On Monday, all 64 teams for the postseason were announced and split into 16 brackets as part of the regionals.
The NCAA baseball tournament is a double-elimination competition. After the regionals and the super regionals, only eight teams will remain in contention for the College World Series.
The CWS is held at the iconic Charles Schwab Field in Omaha, Nebraska. The eight teams are divided into two brackets and the winners of each group meet in the CWS finals for a best-of-three series to crown the national champion.
Here's the full schedule for the postseason:
- Regionals: May 31-June 3
- Super regionals: June 7-9 or June 8-10
- College World Series start: Friday, June 14
- College World Series finals: June 22-24
A look at the 16 NCAA Baseball Tournament brackets
Here's a look at the 16 regional brackets for this year's NCAA baseball tournament. Notably, the top seed in each regional hosts all games in that bracket.
Knoxville Regional
- Tennessee (No.1 overall seed)
- Southern Miss
- Indiana
- Northern Kentucky
Greenville Regional
- East Carolina (No. 16 overall seed)
- Wake Forest
- VCU
- Evansville
Lexington Regional
- Kentucky (No. 2 overall seed)
- Indiana State
- Illinois
- Western Michigan
Corvallis Regional
- Oregon State (No. 15 overall seed)
- UC Irvine
- Nicholls
- Tulane
Bryan-College Station Regional
- Texas A&M (No. 3 overall seed)
- Louisiana
- Texas
- Grambling
Santa Barbara Regional
- UC Santa Barbara (No. 14 overall seed)
- San Diego
- Oregon
- Fresno State
Chapel Hill Regional
- North Carolina (No. 4 overall seed)
- LSU
- Wofford
- Long Island
Tucson Regional
- Arizona (No. 13 overall seed)
- Dallas Baptist
- West Virginia
- Grand Canyon
Fayetteville Regional
- Arkansas (No. 5 overall seed)
- Louisiana Tech
- Kansas State
- Southeast Missouri State
Charlottesville Regional
- Virginia (No. 12 overall seed)
- Mississippi State
- St. John's
- Pennsylvania
Clemson Regional
- Clemson (No. 6 overall seed)
- Vanderbilt
- Coastal Carolina
- High Point
Stillwater Regional
- Oklahoma State (No. 11 overall seed)
- Nebraska
- Florida
- Niagara
Athens Regional
- Georgia (No. 7 overall seed)
- UNC Wilmington
- Georgia Tech
- Army
Raleigh Regional
- NC State (No. 10 overall seed)
- South Carolina
- James Madison
- Bryant
Tallahassee Regional
- Florida State (No. 8 overall seed)
- Alabama
- UCF
- Stetson
Norman Regional
- Oklahoma (No. 9 overall seed)
- Duke
- UConn
- Oral Roberts