2024 NCAA baseball tournament bracket: College World Series schedule, dates, regional matchups

On Monday, the selection committee announced the field of 64 for the 2024 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament, which we will reveal in a moment. Before we begin, you should know that the structure of the NCAA Baseball Tournament is a little different than the more familiar hoops variant.

Here’s what you need to know about this topic.

NCAA Baseball Tournament Format

• The first round of play is known as the regional and is a double-elimination format. Each of the top 16 hosts their respective four-team regional when possible. Each of the 16 regions is distributed from one to four. In each region, #1 faces #4 and #2 faces #3 on the first day of action. The winners of these two games play against each other, while the losers play an elimination game.
• The winner of each regional advances to the super regional. The super regional, which includes a total of 16 teams, is a best-of-three series format.
• The winners of the super regionals – eight teams in all – advance to the College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska.
• The College World Series is a double-elimination format until the last two teams are left standing. At this point, the slate is clean and it’s a best-of-three series to determine the national champion.

NCAA Tournament, College World Series dates

• Regionals: May 31st to June 1st
• Super Regionals: June 6th to 8th or 7th to 9th
• The College World Series Begins: June 14
• College World Series Finals: June 22nd to 24th

Top seeds

The field of 64 includes eight national seeds, which you can consider the pre-tournament favorites to make it to Omaha. Here are this year’s eight national seeds:

1. Tennessee
2. Kentucky
3. Texas A&M
4. North Caroline
5. Arkansas
6. Clemson
7. Georgia
8. State of Florida

If a national seed wins its regional, then it hosts the super regional when possible. Otherwise, super regional locations will be announced after the regional round ends. Regional play begins on Friday, June 2. Now, here are the matchups for all 16 regionals, plus a reminder that each region is ranked one through four and is hosted by one of the 16 national seeds. You’ll notice that all of this year’s top eight seeds come from the SEC or ACC.

Now let’s move on to the regional clashes that make up the opening round.

Athens Regional

Hosted by 7th national seed Georgia

• #1 Georgia vs. Georgia #4 Army
• #2 UNC-Wilmington vs. #3 Georgia Tech

Bryan-College Regional Station

Presented by #3 nationally, Texas A&M

• #1 Texas A&M vs. #4 Grambling
• #2 Louisiana vs. #3 Texas

Hill Regional Chapel

Hosted by national fourth seed North Carolina.

• No. 1 North Carolina vs. No. 4 Long Island
• #2 LSU vs. #3 Wofford

Charlottesville Region

Hosted by 12th national seed Virginia

• #1 Virginia vs. Virginia #4 Penn
• No. 2 Mississippi State vs. No. 2 Mississippi State No. 4 of St.

Clemson Region

Presented by No. 6 national seed Clemson

• #1 Clemson vs. #4 High Point
• #2 Vanderbilt vs. #3 Coastal Carolina

Corvallis Regional

Hosted by 15th national seed Oregon State

• No. 1 Oregon State vs. No. 1 State #4 Tuland
• #2 UC-Irvine vs. #4 Nicholls

Fayetteville Region

Hosted by 5th national seed Arkansas

• #1 Arkansas vs. #4 Southeast Missouri State
• No. 2 Louisiana Tech vs. No. 2 Louisiana Tech No. 3 Kansas State

Greenville Region

Presented by 16th nationally East Carolina

• No. 1 East Carolina vs. No. 1 East Carolina #4 Evansville
• #2 Wake Forest vs. #3 VCU

Knoxville Region

Hosted by #1 national seed Tennessee

• #1 Tennessee vs. #4 Northern Kentucky
• No. 2 Southern Mississippi vs. No. 2 #3 Indiana

Lexington Regional

Hosted by national runner-up Kentucky

• #1 Kentucky vs. #4 Western Michigan
• #2 Indiana vs. #3 Illinois

Norman Regional

Hosted by ninth nationally ranked Oklahoma

• #1 Oklahoma vs. Oklahoma #4 Oral Roberts
• #2 Duke vs. Duke #3 UConn

Raleigh Region

Hosted by 10th national seed NC State

• No. 1 North Carolina State vs. No. 1 State #4 Bryant
• No. 2 South Carolina vs. No. 3 James Madison

Santa Barbara Regional

Hosted by 14th national seed UC-Santa Barbara

• #1 UC-Santa Barbara vs. #4 Fresno State
• No. 2 San Diego vs. No. 3 Oregon

Stillwater Regional

Hosted by nationally ranked 11th Oklahoma State

• No. 1 Oklahoma State vs. No. 1 Oklahoma State #4 Niagara
• #2 Nebraska vs. Nebraska #3 Florida

Tallahassee Region

Hosted by 8th national seed Florida State

• No. 1 Florida State vs. No. 1 State #4 Stetson
• #2 Alabama vs. Alabama #3 Central Florida

Tucson Region

Hosted by 13th nationally ranked Arizona

• #1 Arizona vs. #4 Grand Canyon
• #2 Dallas Baptist vs. #3 West Virginia

Here is a link to the full schedule from NCAA.com, which includes region-versus-region pairings for the super-regions. Now, some quick takeaways from the 64-team field presented above:

• It’s possible we could have a repeat this year, as defending champion LSU is part of the field of 64. College baseball hasn’t had a repeat national champion at the Division I level since South Carolina in 2010 and 2011.
• The SEC this year set an all-time record with 11 teams in tournaments. Next in line this year is ACC, with eight bids.
• High Point, Niagara and Northern Kentucky are participating in the Division I tournament for the first time.
• Vanderbilt has the longest active streak of tournament appearances. This year’s candidacy brings that streak to 18 in a row.

All of the above leads to the College World Series at Omaha’s Charles Schwab Field. So who do you have?