With college baseball heading into the final weekend of the regular season, the announcement of the 64-team NCAA tournament field is less than two weeks away. Our latest bracket projection indicates some teams are trending in the right direction, but naturally any upward movement comes at the expense of someone else.
As usual, the SEC is front and center. LSU has moved up to the No. 2 overall seed after a series win against Arkansas. Vanderbilt is now comfortably among the top eight after taking a series from Tennessee, which has slipped a bit in the pecking order. In another development, Texas A&M has fallen completely out of the projected field after being swept by Missouri. The season has been a major disappointment for the Aggies, last year’s national runners-up who began the year with the No. 1 ranking.
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This is the final weekend of the regular season before teams play in conference tournaments, so there’s still time for those down the bracket and just outside the field to make an impression.
(* denotes teams that are automatic qualifiers based on current conference standings.)
Austin region
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Central Connecticut State*
Baton Rouge region
Tallahassee region
Fayetteville region
Athens region
Auburn region
Nashville region
Chapel Hill region
Corvallis region
Myrtle Beach region
Los Angeles region
Clemson region
Knoxville region
Eugene region
Tuscaloosa region
Fort Worth region
Last four in: Cal Poly, Texas Rio Grande Valley, Virginia, Xavier.
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First four out: Western Kentucky, Creighton, Cincinnati, Texas A&M.
Team breakdown by conference: SEC (13), ACC (10), Big 12 (6), Big Ten (4), Sun Belt (3), Big East (2), Big West (2), Southland (2).
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: College baseball tournament bracket projection: SEC, ACC top field
