Vanderbilt earns No. 1 seed in NCAA baseball tournament; record 13 SEC teams are in 64-team field
FILE - The NCAA logo is seen on a baseball during an NCAA college baseball tournament regional game between Louisiana-Lafayette and Mississippi State in Lafayette, La., Monday, June 2, 2014. (AP Photo/Jonathan Bachman, file)
FILE - Vanderbilt head coach Tim Corbin walks on the field during an NCAA regional college tournament baseball game against Xavier, June 4, 2023, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)
FILE - The NCAA logo is seen on a baseball during an NCAA college baseball tournament regional game between Louisiana-Lafayette and Mississippi State in Lafayette, La., Monday, June 2, 2014. (AP Photo/Jonathan Bachman, file)
FILE - Vanderbilt head coach Tim Corbin walks on the field during an NCAA regional college tournament baseball game against Xavier, June 4, 2023, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Vanderbilt, which gave up just three runs over three games in the SEC Tournament, was awarded the No. 1 overall seed in the NCAA Tournament on Monday and was among a record 13 teams from the conference to be selected to the 64-team field.
The tournament opens Friday with 16 double-elimination regionals. Winners advance to eight best-of-three super regionals. Those winners move on to the College World Series in Omaha beginning June 13.
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Vanderbilt has won eight straight games and 13 of its past 16 to earn the No. 1 seed for the second time, and first since 2007. The Commodores, who play Wright State in the opener of the Nashville Regional, is in the tournament for the 19th straight time for the longest active streak.
The national seeds following Vanderbilt (42-16) are Texas (42-12), Arkansas (43-13), Auburn (38-18), North Carolina (42-12), LSU (43-14), Georgia (42-15) and Oregon State (41-12-1). Those eight teams would be in line to host super regionals if they win their regionals.
Seeds Nos. 9 through 16: Florida State (38-14), Mississippi (40-19), Clemson (44-16), Oregon (42-14), Coastal Carolina (48-11), Tennessee (43-16), UCLA (42-16) and Southern Mississippi (44-14).
The last four teams to get at-large bids, in alphabetical order, were Arizona State, Kansas State, Oklahoma State and Southern California.
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The first four teams left out were Southeastern Louisiana, Troy, UConn and Virginia.
The SEC's 13 teams in the tournament are two more than its record 11 that made it in 2024.
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