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Texas baseball gets national No. 2 seed for record 64th NCAA Tournament appearance
The Texas Longhorns will be the No. 2 overall seed in the NCAA Tournament, one of a record 13 SEC teams to be selected to the 64-team field.
The tournament opens Friday with 16 double-elimination regionals. Winners advance to eight best-of-three super regionals. Those winners move on to the College World Series in Omaha beginning June 13.
In their first year in the SEC, Texas opened 38-5 overall and 19-2 in conference play. The Longhorns appeared to be a lock for the No. 1 seed before finishing 5-7 with a loss to Tennessee in its conference tournament opener.
Vanderbilt won eight straight games and 13 of its past 16 to earn the No. 1 seed for the second time, and first since 2007. The Commodores are in the tournament for the 19th straight time for the longest active streak.
The national seeds following Vanderbilt (42-16) and Texas (42-12) are Arkansas (43-13), Auburn (38-18), North Carolina (42-12), LSU (43-14), Georgia (42-15) and Oregon State (41-12-1). Those eight teams would be in line to host super regionals if they win their regionals.
Seeds Nos. 9 through 16: Florida State (38-14), Mississippi (40-19), Clemson (44-16), Oregon (42-14), Coastal Carolina (48-11), Tennessee (43-16), UCLA (42-16) and Southern Mississippi (44-14).
The last four teams to get at-large bids, in alphabetical order, were Arizona State, Kansas State, Oklahoma State and Southern California.
The first four teams left out were Southeastern Louisiana, Troy, UConn and Virginia.
The SEC’s 13 teams in the tournament are two more than its record 11 that made it in 2024.
The Atlantic Coast Conference has nine teams in the field followed by the Big 12 with eight and the Big Ten with four. The American Athletic, Big West, Conference USA and Sun Belt all have two teams in the tournament.
TCU and Oklahoma both made the field of 64 as the second-seed in the Corvallis and Chapel Hill regionals, respectively. Oklahoma State snuck in as one of the last four at-large bids, earning a 3-seed in the Athens regional.
Been there, done that
Texas is in the tournament for a record 64th time. Miami, which lost six of its past seven games, is making its 50th appearance. Florida State will be a regional host for a Division I-record 37th time.
The longest active streaks behind Vanderbilt belong to Florida (17), LSU (13), Oklahoma State (12) and Dallas Baptist (11).
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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