South Carolina Gamecocks baseball will host NCAA regional
By Sydney Hunte
The South Carolina Gamecocks’ road to the College World Series will begin at Carolina Stadium.
The Gamecocks are one of sixteen teams selected to host a regional in this year’s NCAA tournament, meaning that they’ll open tournament play at home for the fifth consecutive season.
National seeds and the full field won’t be released until tomorrow, but the chances of the Gamecocks earning a national seed and a guarantee to host a Super Regional should they advance is still up in the air and not looking like a real possibility. That shouldn’t be a problem if history is a good teacher: the 2010 national championship team didn’t host a Super Regional (the 2011 champion and 2012 runner-up did) but Carolina would certainly rather host all the way through to Omaha.
Cal Poly, Florida, Florida State, LSU, Indiana, Louisiana-Lafayette, Louisville, Miami (Florida), Oklahoma State, Ole Miss, Oregon State, Rice, TCU, Vanderbilt, and Virginia are the other fifteen regional sites (not in that order).
The entire field drops tomorrow, but expect Virginia (or possibly Florida) to get the top national seed.