2011 College Baseball Tournament Updates

11 teams have won their regional and are headed to their super regional. Five more teams await their fate today. Here’s an update of this weekend’s action.  

There were few big surprises from the NCAA tournament this weekend. #3 seeded UC Irvine upset #1 seeded UCLA 4-3 on Sunday with a walk-off single in the ninth. The Anteaters advance to the Charlotte super regional, their first super regional since 2008, where they will face overall #1 seeded University of Virginia.

#3 seeded Mississippi State upset #1 seeded Georgia Tech 7-3 on Sunday in the Atlanta regional. Mississippi State advances to the Gainesville regional where they will face their Southeastern Conference foe the Florida Gators. Florida took 2 out of 3 games from Mississippi State in Starkville during the regular season (5-7, 18-0, 3-1) and beat the Bulldogs 7-5 in the SEC Tournament.

#2 seeded Stanford sent #4 seeded University of Illinois, the only Big Ten team in the tournament, home on Sunday winning 14-2. The Fighting Illini upset #1 seeded Cal-State Fullerton 7-5 in the Sunday morning game of the Fullerton regional.

The biggest upsets of the weekend occurred in the Fort Worth regional. #1 seeded TCU was put out of the tournament after three games. TCU beat #4 seed Oral Roberts on Friday 10-2, lost to #3 seed Dallas Baptist 3-2 on Saturday, and then lost to Oral Roberts on Sunday 8-4. #2 seeded Oklahoma was ousted in two games losing to Dallas Baptist 3-2 in 10 innings on Friday and Oral Roberts 7-0 on Saturday. Dallas Baptist and Oral Roberts play for the right to advance to what would have been the Houston regional had Rice not been defeated by University of California during the Sunday morning game 6-3. The higher winning seed between the Houston regional (#3 California vs. #2 Baylor) and Fort Worth regional will host that super regional.

Power conferences have paved the way to the super regional. The SEC has 4 teams advancing, ACC 3, and the PAC 10 has 3.

Teams that are headed to a super regional:

#1 seeded Virginia

#1 seeded South Carolina

#1 seeded Florida

#1 seeded Florida State

#1 seeded Arizona State

#1 seeded Oregon State

#1 seeded Vanderbilt

#1 seeded North Carolina

#2 seeded Stanford

#3 seeded Mississippi State

#3 seeded UC Irvine

Teams still fighting for a super regional berth:

#1 Texas vs. #3 Kent State; Austin regional

#2 Baylor vs. #3 California; Houston regional

#1 Clemson vs. #2 Connecticut; Clemson regional

#1 Texas A&M vs. #2 Arizona; College Station regional

#3 Dallas Baptist vs. #4 Oral Roberts; Fort Worth regional

Super regional play will begin Friday June 10 through Sunday if necessary. The super regional format is a best of three series. The College World Series will begin June 18 in Omaha, Nebraska. 

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