The college baseball postseason has finally arrived.
Regional play will take place June 3-6 with its usual double-elimination format. The 16 Regional winners will move on to the Super Regional round from June 10-13 where two teams face off in a best of three series. The eight teams who survive the Super Regional advance to the College World Series starting on June 17.
The NCAA committee released the 16 host sites on Sunday night followed by the full official 2022 bracket on Monday afternoon.
Each year the tournament is announced, controversy follows some of the committees’ decision-making. This season features some snubbed teams along with interesting top 16 seedings.
The bracket does set up many can’t miss matchups and storylines including TCU heading to College Station, Ole Miss making the field and Texas State making the trip out west to Standford.
Here are five takeaways from the NCAA Baseball Tournament bracket:
Oklahoma should have hosted
Oklahoma was in cruise control over Texas in the Big 12 Tournament Championship Game as the NCAA announced the regional host sites. The Sooners were left off the list despite having a top 20 RPI, 18 top 50 wins and a conference tournament title under their belts. Makes one question why the host sites are announced during the conference championship games.
Conference bias was in full effect
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The NCAA committee showed major conference bias. Examples include Big Ten Champion Maryland finishing behind four SEC schools in the national seeding, Ole Miss made the field over more qualified NC State and Rutgers. Auburn got the hosting nod over the likes of Oklahoma and Notre Dame.
The College Station Regional is must see TV
Texas A&M will host the TCU Horned Frogs as its No. 2 seed in the College Station Regional. These two have a recent history of epic postseason battles and this will be the…
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