Field-of-64 If it Ended Today – May 18th

by Carl James • @jovian34 • May 18

Hoosiers a solid 2-seed while tied for B1G lead

Bracket predictions are all over the place now on just about any site that covers national Division I College baseball. This field is different. I am not “projecting” with this bracket. This is if the committee had to put the field together today. This is generated by a computer program that I wrote to rank the teams and take multiple factors like geography into account when assigning teams to regionals. This is results-based, using an approximation of techniques to try an match the priorities the NCAA committee showed in the 2018 tournament selection.

Hosts by conference:

SEC: 7, Pac-12: 3, Big 12: 2, ACC: w, Big West, and American: 1 each

Lasts in/firsts out:

Last Four in:
1. LOUISIANA TECH
2. FLORIDA STATE
3. UC IRVINE
4. SAN DIEGO STATE


First Four out:
1. SOUTHERN MISS
2. PEPPERDINE
3. FLORIDA
4. VIRGINIA

Field of 64:

Region: 1
Host: VANDERBILT of the SEC
2-seed: NORTH CAROLINA STATE of the ACC
3-seed: NEBRASKA of the Big Ten
4-seed: UNCG of the Southern



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Region: 16
Host: LSU of the SEC
2-seed: WEST VIRGINIA of the Big 12
3-seed: LOUISIANA TECH of the Conference USA
4-seed: SOUTHERN of the SWAC



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Region: 8
Host: TEXAS TECH of the Big 12
2-seed: DALLAS BAPTIST of the Missouri Valley
3-seed: FLORIDA STATE of the ACC
4-seed: NEW MEXICO STATE of the Western Athletic



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Region: 9
Host: ARKANSAS of the SEC
2-seed: ILLINOIS STATE of the Missouri Valley
3-seed: HOUSTON of the American Athletic
4-seed: STONY BROOK of the America East



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Region: 4
Host: MISSISSIPPI STATE of the SEC
2-seed: CONNECTICUT of the American Athletic
3-seed: VCU of the Atlantic 10
4-seed: MARIST of the MAAC



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Region: 13
Host: OKLAHOMA STATE of the Big 12
2-seed: ARIZONA STATE of the Pac-12
3-seed: MISSOURI of the SEC
4-seed: WRIGHT STATE of the Horizon League



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Region: 5
Host: EAST CAROLINA of the American Athletic
2-seed: BYU of the West Coast
3-seed: DUKE of the ACC
4-seed: NORTH CAROLINA A&T of the MEAC



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Region: 12
Host: OREGON STATE of the Pac-12
2-seed: CREIGHTON of the Big East
3-seed: UC IRVINE of the Big West
4-seed: CENTRAL MICHIGAN of the Mid-American



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Region: 3
Host: STANFORD of the Pac-12
2-seed: FRESNO STATE of the Mountain West
3-seed: CLEMSON of the ACC
4-seed: NAVY of the Patriot League



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Region: 14
Host: TEXAS A&M of the SEC
2-seed: BAYLOR of the Big 12
3-seed: TEXAS STATE of the Sun Belt
4-seed: SAM HOUSTON STATE of the Southland



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Region: 6
Host: LOUISVILLE of the ACC
2-seed: ILLINOIS of the Big Ten
3-seed: INDIANA STATE of the Missouri Valley
4-seed: MOREHEAD STATE of the Ohio Valley



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Region: 11
Host: GEORGIA TECH of the ACC
2-seed: INDIANA of the Big Ten
3-seed: AUBURN of the SEC
4-seed: BRYANT of the Northeast



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Region: 7
Host: GEORGIA of the SEC
2-seed: MIAMI (FL) of the ACC
3-seed: FAU of the Conference USA
4-seed: CHARLESTON of the Colonial Athletic



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Region: 10
Host: UC SANTA BARBARA of the Big West
2-seed: CALIFORNIA of the Pac-12
3-seed: SAN DIEGO STATE of the Mountain West
4-seed: HARVARD of the Ivy League



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Region: 2
Host: UCLA of the Pac-12
2-seed: OLE MISS of the SEC
3-seed: MICHIGAN of the Big Ten
4-seed: SOUTH DAKOTA STATE of the The Summit League



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Region: 15
Host: TENNESSEE of the SEC
2-seed: NORTH CAROLINA of the ACC
3-seed: LIBERTY of the Atlantic Sun
4-seed: CAMPBELL of the Big South