Super regionals are the next stop on the NCAA Division I baseball tournament’s road to Omaha, Nebraska.
Four of the best-of-three series are Friday through Sunday: Miami (34-25) at Louisville (38-21); No. 9 national seed Florida State (41-14) at No. 8 Oregon State (45-13-1); Arizona (42-18) at No. 5 North Carolina (45-13); and No. 13 Coastal Carolina (51-11) at No. 4 Auburn (41-18).
The four series Saturday through Monday are UTSA (47-13) at No. 15 UCLA (45-16); Murray State (42-14) at Duke (40-19); West Virginia (44-14) at No. 6 LSU (46-15); and No. 14 Tennessee (46-17) at No. 3 Arkansas (46-13).
The eight winners advance to the College World Series, which starts June 13 in Omaha.
The Southeastern Conference advanced only four of its record-setting 13 NCAA qualifiers from the double-elimination four-team regionals to super regionals. That ratio doesn’t cut it when the metrics say you’re the most powerful conference and you’ve produced the past five national champions, 10 of the past 15 and have had a team in 14 of the past 15 CWS championship finals.