May 25, 2008

CORAL GABLES, Fla. - For the 22nd time in school history, the University of Miami has been selected to host to one of 16 regional sites for the NCAA Division I Baseball Championships. Miami (47-8), fresh off its first Atlantic Coast Conference Championship title, will be making its NCAA record 36th consecutive regional appearance this week when play at the Coral Gables Regional begins Friday, May 30 at UM's Mark Light Field.

The Hurricanes - winners of 14 of their last 17 - defeated Virginia, 8-4, Sunday afternoon at the 2008 ACC Championship game at the Baseball Grounds of Jacksonville. Five Hurricanes were selected to the 2008 ACC Baseball All-Tournament Team with outfielder Dave DiNatale tabbed the Most Valuable Player.

The last season Miami hosted a regional was 2005. In 2006, UM won the Lincoln Regional in Lincoln, Neb. before eventually taking out Mississippi in the Oxford Super Regional to advance to its 22nd College World Series. Last season, the Hurricanes were sent to the Columbia (Mo.) Regional.

Florida State Selected As Host for NCAA Baseball Regional

INDIANAPOLIS - The NCAA Division I Baseball Committee announced 16 regional sites for the 62nd annual NCAA Division I Baseball Championship. Florida State University was selected as a regional host for the 26th time in school history. The four-team regional will begin on Friday, May 30 on Mike Martin Field inside Dick Howser Stadium.

This will be the 26th time that Florida State has hosted a regional. Miami (Fla.) is hosting for the 21st time. Arizona State and LSU are both hosting for the 18th time. Stanford (14th) and Oklahoma State (10th) are the only other institutions to host 10 or more times since the NCAA went to the regional format in 1975.

The 16 regional sites, with host institutions and records through Sunday, May 25, are as follows: Arizona St. (45-11), Tempe, Ariz.; Cal St. Fullerton (37-18), Fullerton, Calif.; Coastal Carolina (47-12), Conway, S.C.; Florida St. (48-10), Tallahassee, Fla.; Georgia (35-21), Athens, Ga.; Long Beach St. (36-19), Long Beach, Calif.; LSU (42-16), Baton Rouge, La.; Miami, Fla. (46-8), Coral Gables, Fla.; Michigan (45-12), Ann Harbor, Mich.; Nebraska (40-14), Lincoln, Neb.; North Carolina (46-12), Cary, N.C.; NC State (38-20), Raleigh, N.C.; Oklahoma State (42-16), Stillwater, Okla.; Rice (42-13), Houston, Texas; Stanford (33-20), Palo Alto, Calif.; Texas A&M (43-16), College Station, Texas;

Tar Heels Selected To Host Third Straight NCAA Regional

INDIANAPOLIS - On the strength of a record-tying regular season and the program's first-ever consensus No. 1 national ranking, the University of North Carolina has been selected as one of 16 regional hosts for the 2008 NCAA Division I Baseball Championship, the NCAA announced Sunday.

The Tar Heels (46-12) will host a regional for the third straight season and just the fourth time in program history. They will find out who will join them next weekend at Cary's USA Baseball National Training Complex when the 64-team field is announced on ESPN's selection show at 12:30 p.m. Monday.

"We are extremely excited to be chosen to host a regional in Cary," said 10th-year head coach Mike Fox, who has guided the Tar Heels to back-to-back trips to the College World Series finals. "We have enjoyed some of the largest, most vocal home crowds in Tar Heel baseball history this season and we look forward to more of the same in the postseason.

NC State Chosen As One of 16 NCAA Baseball Regional Sites

RALEIGH, N.C. - For the first time in its 42-year history, Doak Field at Dail Park will host an NCAA Baseball Regional.

The NCAA announced the 16 sites for the opening weekend of post-season play Sunday evening. The four teams that will be at each location, the pairings and seedings will be announced Monday at 12:30 p.m. on ESPN during the NCAA Baseball Championship Selection Show.

For the Wolfpack (38-20), this will be the 22nd trip to the NCAA Championship appearance in school history, its sixth in a row and its 18th trip in the last 23 years. NC State's all-time record in the NCAA Baseball Championship is 31-43.

NC State has hosted an NCAA Regional once before, in 2003, but it was at Fleming Stadium in Wilson, N.C. Doak Field was in the middle of extensive renovations at the time. Head coach Elliott Avent and his team won that event and advanced to the only Super Regional in school history, where it lost a pair of games to Miami in Coral Gables, Fla.