Miami left out of baseball tourney, ending NCAA’s longest streak

On Monday, the MI baseball team was selected as the No. 3 seed in the 2017 NCAA Tournament.

Without question, there’s been one team more dominant the rest this season, the Oregon State Beavers.

Play begins Friday in 16 regionals. All games will be broadcast live on the ESPN Networks. Louisville is hosting NCAA Regionals for the fifth straight season, seventh time in the last nine years. “(They are) not just in, but in as a number 2 seed”.

ACC rival Florida State takes over with the longest active tournament streak at 40 years. The No. 2-seeded Hoosiers will play No. 3 North Carolina State at 7 p.m. Friday in the Lexington Regional.

Miami has won four NCAA Division I Baseball Championships, capturing the honor in 1982, 1985, 1999 and 2001. It is the program’s 33rd all-time appearance, the 14th-most in NCAA history (1954-present). The Cavaliers (42-14) and the Patriots (40-19) will play at 4:00 p.m.

Coach Tom Walter’s Deacons are a solid 21-7 at home and have won all six series played at David F. Couch Ballpark this season.

The two teams are the top seeds in the Fayetteville Regional. Stanford will square off against Sacramento State on June 1 at 6 p.m. PT. IN is headed to the NCAA Tournament for the seventh time and first since 2015.

The Auburn baseball Tigers will face UCF in the opening game of the Tallahassee regional on Friday at 11 a.m. CDT.

Other teams in the regional include the hosts, Wake Forest, and America East champion UMBC. The conference sent a record-high five to the tourney in 2015. For the Wildcats, it is their 39th all-time appearance. The Red Raiders will host three opponents this weekend: Delaware, Arizona and Sam Houston State.

UCF baseball won its first regular season title since 2004 by defeating USF, 3-2, on May 20, 2017. The LSU Tigers will take on the Texas Southern Tigers on Friday at 2:30pm in Alex Box Stadium.

The regional round is a four-team, double-elimination format. They will also host a super regional against the victor of the Houston region should they advance. The Hurricanes (31-27) were the first team out, the NCAA said, which did nothing to soften the blow for a team that went to the College World Series in each of the last two years.