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Final Predictions for 2018 NCAA Baseball Tournament

by Jake Mastroianni
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With everyone wrapping up tournament play on Sunday, we have a much better understanding of who will make the field of 64 in the 2018 NCAA Baseball Tournament. We’ll also give you a few teams on the bubble who could sneak into the tournament.

Regional hosts have also been announced, but we’ll give you our top 16 below to set the national seeds as well.

We will start by looking at who gets in by conference (64):

America East: Hartford

AAC (5): East Carolina, UConn, South Florida, UCF, and Houston

A10: Saint Louis

ACC (6): Florida State, Clemson, North Carolina, NC State, Louisville, and Duke

ASUN (2): Stetson and Jacksonville

Big 12 (5): Texas Tech, Baylor, Texas, Oklahoma and Oklahoma State

Big East: St. John’s

Big South: Campbell

Big Ten (4): Purdue, Minnesota, Indiana, and Ohio State

Big West: Cal State Fullerton

CAA: UNCW

CUSA (2): Southern Miss and FAU

Horizon: Wright State

Ivy: Columbia

MAAC: Canisius

MAC: Kent State

MEAC: North Carolina A&T

Missouri Valley (2): Missouri State and Dallas Baptist

Mt. West: San Diego State

NEC: Long Island

OVC (2): Tennessee Tech and Morehead State

Pac-12 (4): Stanford, Oregon State, UCLA and Washington

Patriot: Army

SEC (10): Ole Miss, Florida, Arkansas, Georgia, Auburn, Mississippi State, Vanderbilt, South Carolina, LSU and Texas A&M.

Southern Conference: Samford

Southland: Northwestern State

SWAC: Texas Southern

Summit: Oral Roberts

Sun Belt (2): Coastal Carolina and Troy

West Coast: Gonzaga

WAC: New Mexico State

 

Bubble Teams: Illinois, Kentucky, Arizona, and Northeastern

 

Top 16 Seeds:

  1. Florida

  2. Oregon State

  3. Ole Miss

  4. Arkansas

  5. Stanford

  6. Georgia

  7. Clemson

  8. Florida State

  9. North Carolina

  10. Texas Tech

  11. Stetson

  12. East Carolina

  13. Minnesota

  14. Coastal Carolina

  15. Texas

  16. NC State

 

The field of 64 will be announced at 11 a.m. CT on Monday on ESPNU.

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