POSTSEASONSuper Regional Preview: Eight Series, Eight Bids to Omaha
West Virginia hosts Cal Poly to open the supers. Troy and Little Rock collide in a Sun Belt showdown. Kansas and Oklahoma renew an old Big 12 rivalry in Lawrence. Our picks for all eight series.
READ THE STORY →Regional Recap: Cal Poly, Little Rock, and St. John's Punch Tickets; Seven Hosts Go Home
Sixteen teams survived four days of bracket baseball. UCLA, Southern Miss, and Nebraska were gone by Sunday. Florida State, Florida, Georgia Tech, and Texas A&M joined them on Monday. Cal Poly took Los Angeles. Little Rock and St. John's won as No. 4 seeds.
Ten Down, Six to Go: A Monday Morning State of the Regionals
Cal Poly bounced UCLA's side. Ole Miss beat Arizona State twice in extra innings. Little Rock is the only No. 4 seed still alive. And five of Monday's six remaining games are winner-take-all after the loser's brackets survived Sunday.
Regionals Day One: Four Hosts Down, Two 14-Inning Games, and the Lower Seed Won Twelve Times
Saint Mary's over UCLA. Milwaukee over Auburn. St. John's over Florida State. Little Rock over Southern Miss. The first day of the NCAA Tournament delivered four host losses, two extra-inning marathons, and lower-seeded wins in twelve of the night's games.
Friday Regional Slate: Editor's Picks for Opening Day
Thirty-two opening games Friday — all 1-4 or 2-3 seed matchups. From Chapel Hill to College Station, here is how we see every regional opener playing out.
Selection Monday Regional Preview: Breaking Down All 16 Hosts
UCLA leads the field as the No. 1 overall seed. Several hosts weren't so lucky — Arkansas to Lawrence, Tennessee to Chapel Hill, Oregon vs. Oregon State, and USC into College Station. A regional-by-regional look at all 16 host sites.
Conference Tournament Post-Mortem: Who Moved, Who Held, and Who Got Burned
Conference tournament week confirmed the top of the bracket more than it rewrote it. Kansas locked up a host, Florida climbed into the top eight, Texas A&M slipped out — and Arkansas made a run the committee didn't reward.
Regional Players To Watch: The Bats and Arms Who Can Swing Opening Weekend
Selection Monday gave us the bracket. Using the CB9 players tab, here are the hitters and pitchers most likely to change a regional — with Friday's opening matchups in mind.
How the CB9 Bracket Challenge Works: Sign Up, Make Picks, and Scoring
Everything you need to play: create a free account, fill out all 27 picks, and know exactly how points and upset bonuses work. Brackets lock at 10:30 a.m. CT on Friday, May 29.
Florida Is Playing Like a Different Team — And Georgia Is Next
The Gators run-ruled Alabama 13-3 in eight innings, scored 21 runs in two tournament games, and are now one win away from the SEC title game.
Pittsburgh Is Doing Something Remarkable in Charlotte
The 14th seed has beaten Wake Forest and Florida State by the exact same score — 7-4, both as the road team — and is in the ACC semifinals.
Kansas Survives on a Walk-Off. Oklahoma State Didn't Need One.
Savion Flowers hit a solo shot in the 10th to keep the Jayhawks alive. Now they face the Cowboys — 61.6% favorites — in Friday's semifinal.
The Big Ten Is Playing in Omaha. USC Is the First Team to Make It Count.
Charles Schwab Field hosts the Big Ten tournament this week. The Trojans beat Michigan State 7-0 in the quarters. UCLA, Nebraska, and a weather delay still to come.
The Bubble Is Clearing Fast. LSU Is Out. Vandy Is Out. NC State Is Sweating.
Four days of conference tournaments have eliminated three programs from the at-large conversation and left Pittsburgh — the 14th ACC seed — as an unlikely bubble story.
Missouri Walks Into Hoover and Ends Ole Miss's National Seed Argument
The Tigers burned their ace, gave up six earned runs, and still won. Ole Miss never touched their weekend arms and still lost. That's Hoover.
Mid-Major Contenders: The Teams Already In, the Teams Fighting to Stay
Coastal Carolina is locked at No. 17. Jacksonville State is No. 30. But Wichita State, Bethune-Cookman, and a dozen others are one bad inning from a season-ending loss. Here's who has breathing room and who needs to win it all.
The Hoover Gauntlet: What Each Tier of the SEC Tournament Bracket Needs to Accomplish
For Georgia, it's a national seed. For Alabama, it's a host bid. For everyone else, it's the ballgame. Here's what each tier needs to do May 19-24 in Hoover.
Beyond Hoover: The Big Ten, ACC, and the Conference Tournaments That Could Shape the Field
UCLA, UNC, and Kansas all have seeding to clarify. Here's what's happening in the other tournaments running the same week as Hoover.
Final Regular Season Weekend: Georgia Holds On, Texas Sweeps, Florida and Arkansas Dominate
May 14-16 settled the SEC standings with Georgia taking Auburn 2-1, Texas sweeping Missouri, and Florida dominating LSU in three games. The final weekend delivered clarity on seeding and who enters Hoover hot.
Bubble Watch: A Dozen Teams Are One Bad Weekend From Watching at Home
Selection Monday is May 25. The cluster of teams sitting on the cut line is bigger than usual — and the conference tournaments still have to play out.
The Most Leverage-Loaded Hoover in Years
Sixteen teams. Six days. Almost everyone has something to play for. The top four want a national seed locked in, the middle wants a host bid, and the bottom plays for its season.
Kansas Is One Weekend Away From Two Firsts
A program that has never hosted a regional and hasn't won a conference title since 1949 is the only Big 12 team in the projected host field. The last weekend decides how high they climb.
The Committee Is Now Engineering the Bracket. Here's What That Means.
For the first time, the NCAA committee will rank the top 32 teams — not just the 16 hosts. That single change makes the opening weekend of regionals tougher for the favorites and the back of the field more interesting.