2010 NCAA Baseball Tournament

Three Sun Belt Conference Teams made it to the NCAA Baseball Tournament. Fla. Atlantic, FIU and La.-Lafayette will be trying to make it to Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha, Nebraska site of the College World Series.

La-Lafayette will be going to Austin to face Rice, Texas and Rider.

Florida International will be traveling Coral Gables to take on Miami, Dartmouth and Texas A&M.

Florida Atlantic will face Oregon State, Florida and Bethune-Cookman in Gaineville.

The Sun Belt placed more teams then the Big Ten, MWC, CUSA, WAC, Big West and more. The Atlantic Coast, Pac-10 and SEC all placed eight teams. The Big 12 had five. The Sun Belt, Big East and Southern Conference all placed three.

Texas was selected to host two tournaments, one in Austin and one in Fort Worth.

It is a double elimination tournament with the winner of each region moving on.

Three states have six teams in the tournament. Texas is one with the six teams, they are Baylor, Lamar, Rice, TCU, Texas and Texas A&M.

Mercer made the field for the first time in its programs history. Miami of Florida has made it 38 times in a row. Of the 64 teams in the tournament, 35 were in the 2009 field. There are 292 teams playing Division I baseball and the team with the most wins was Coastal Carolina with fifty-one.

The eight top seeds are Arizona St. (47-8), Texas (46-11), Florida (42-15), Coastal Carolina (51-7), Virginia (47-11), UCLA(43-13), Louisville (48-12) and Georgia Tech (45-13).

The field looks like this;

Tempe (No. 1 Arizona State, Milwaukee, Hawaii, San Diego)

Fayetteville (Arkansas, Grambling, Kansas State, Washington State)
Auburn (Auburn, Jacksonville, Southern Mississippi, Clemson)
Atlanta(No. 8 Georgia Tech, Mercer, Elon, Alabama)

Charlottesville (No. 5Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth, St. John’s, Ole Miss)
Norman(Oklahoma, Oral Roberts, North Carolina, California)
Columbia (SouthCarolina, Bucknell, The Citadel, Virginia Tech)
Myrtle Beach (No. 4Coastal Carolina, Tony Brook, North Carolina State, College ofCharleston)

Austin (No. 2 Texas, Rider, Louisiana-Lafayette, Rice)
Fort Worth (TCU, Lamar, Arizona, Baylor)
Norwich (Florida State,Central Connecticut State, Oregon,Connecticut)
Louisville (No. 7 Louisville, Saint Louis, IllinoisState, Vanderbilt)

Los Angeles (No. 6 UCLA, Kent State, UC Irvine,LSU)
Fullerton (Cal State Fullerton, Minnesota, New Mexico,Stanford)
Coral Gables (Miami, Dartmouth, Florida International,Texas A&M)

Gainesville (Oregon State, Florida, Florida Atlantic, Bethune Cookman)

 

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