All 16 regional hosts have been announced and each of the 29 automatic qualifiers have already won their respective conference championships, narrowing down the NCAA baseball tournament field.
Vanderbilt, No. 1 in the NCAA's RPI, won the SEC tournament 3-2 over Ole Miss on Sunday, and were announced as a regional host. The Commodores have a strong chance at earning the No. 1 overall seed when the field is revealed on Monday afternoon.
The SEC was well represented when the regional hosts were announced on Sunday night, occupying eight of the 16 locations to start the NCAA tournament as Vanderbilt, Arkansas, Georgia, Auburn, Ole Miss, LSU, Tennessee and Texas will all host at least the regional round.
With regional hosts and automatic qualifiers being determined, here are the latest NCAA baseball tournament predictions ahead of Monday's selection show:
College baseball national seed predictions
- Vanderbilt
- Texas
- North Carolina
- Arkansas
- LSU
- Georgia
- Auburn
- Oregon State
- Coastal Carolina
- Ole Miss
- Clemson
- Florida State
- Tennessee
- Oregon
- Southern Miss
- UCLA
College baseball NCAA bracket predictions
Here are our latest 64-team bracket predictions ahead of the selection show on Monday:
*Automatic bids
Nashville Regional
- Vanderbilt* (1)
- Kansas State
- Louisville
- Fairfield*
Austin Regional
- Texas (2)
- Dallas Baptist
- Arizona State
- Houston Christian*
Chapel Hill Regional
- North Carolina* (3)
- Oklahoma
- Rhode Island*
- Columbia*
Fayetteville Regional
- Arkansas (4)
- Kansas
- Creighton*
- Arkansas-Little Rock*
Baton Rouge Regional
- LSU (5)
- Florida
- Miami
- Wright State*
Athens Regional
- Georgia (6)
- Wake Forest
- Stetson*
- Utah Valley*
Auburn Regional
- Auburn (7)
- Duke
- Troy
- Central Connecticut*
Corvallis Regional
- Oregon State (8)
- Arizona
- Cal Poly*
- Saint Mary's*
Conway Regional
- Coastal Carolina* (9)
- NC State
- East Carolina*
- USC Upstate*
Oxford Regional
- Ole Miss (10)
- TCU
- East Tennessee State*
- Fresno State*
Clemson Regional
- Clemson (11)
- Western Kentucky*
- Kentucky
- Binghamton*
Tallahassee Regional
- Florida State (12)
- Northeastern*
- Mississippi State
- Bethune-Cookman*
Knoxville Regional
- Tennessee (13)
- West Virginia
- Nebraska*
- Miami (Ohio)*
Eugene Regional
- Oregon (14)
- UC Irvine
- Oklahoma State
- North Dakota State*
Hattiesburg Regional
- Southern Miss (15)
- Alabama
- Cincinnati
- Holy Cross*
Los Angeles Regional
- UCLA (16)
- Georgia Tech
- USC
- Murray State*
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: NCAA baseball tournament bracket predictions: National seed, super regional hosts
Reporting by Austin Curtright, USA TODAY NETWORK / USA TODAY
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