The 2023 NCAA Baseball Tournament began with 64 teams vying to reach the College World Series on Friday.
The teams played throughout the weekend, and 16 advanced to the Super Regionals, where they will play a best-of-three series to determine which eight will go to the College World Series in Omaha.
Two Texas teams — TCU and Texas — remain in the field.
Here are the teams that advanced and who, when, and where they will play as the tournament continues this weekend.
Friday, June 9
Duke at No. 7 Virginia, 11 a.m. CT
Virginia remains a host team this weekend after beating Army 15-1 and back-to-back wins over East Carolina to advance to the Super Regionals. Three starting pitchers lasted at lead five innings, while the offense scored 9.1 runs per game.
Duke won the Conway Regional, hosted by Coastal Carolina, knocking out the 10th-ranked Chanticleers with a 12-3 win on Monday after failing to advance against them on Sunday. MJ Metz went 3-5 with three RBIs in the Regional final and hit four home runs in the first round.
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No. 14 Indiana State at TCU, 4 p.m. CT
TCU won the Fayetteville Regional by going 3-0 while scoring 44 runs and eliminating host team Arkansas as the No.2 seed over the weekend. Tre Richardson came up with 14 RBIs, including a three-home run, 11-RBI game in a 20-5 win over Arkansas on Sunday.
Indiana State hosted its Regional and held on for a one-run win over Wright State and two close wins over Iowa to advance. Keegan Watson hit a three-run home run to give the Sycamores the lead in the top of the seventh, and the bullpen held on to clinch the first Super Regional berth in program history.
While Indiana State is the higher-ranked team, a scheduling conflict with the Special Olympics of Indiana has forced this series to move from Terre Haute to Fort Worth.
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No. 15 South Carolina at No. 2 Florida, 5 p.m. CT
Both teams won their Regionals as hosts, but Florida gets the home-field advantage this weekend as the higher-ranked team.
The Gators had to play five games during Regionals after losing to Texas Tech and fighting back through the elimination bracket. Florida responded by eliminating a good UConn team and winning two in a row against Texas Tech as Wyatt Langford tested the Red Raiders on the basepaths to help Florida advance.
The Gamecocks rolled through their Regional, winning all three of their games by at least three runs. South Carolina finished the weekend with a 17-hit onslaught that saw the Gamecocks score runs in six innings and included a four-hit day from Braylen Wimmer.
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Oral Roberts at Oregon, 7 p.m. CT
Oral Roberts is the surprise team to advance to the Super Regionals. The Golden Eagles entered as the final team in the Stillwater Regional and proceeded to run the table, sending host Oklahoma State to the elimination bracket, outlasting Washington in a 15-12 game, and beating Dallas Baptist to advance and extend the nation’s longest winning streak to 21 games.
Meanwhile, Oregon won the Nashville Regional, knocking out SEC powerhouse Vanderbilt in the process. The Ducks beat the Commodores once and Xavier twice to advance to the Super Regionals unscathed as freshmen pitchers Grayson Grinsell and Turner Spoljaric led the way.
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Saturday, June 10
No. 16 Alabama at No. 1 Wake Forest, 11 a.m. CT
Alabama needed a walk-off on Friday against Nicholls State and a three-run ninth-inning rally in an elimination game against Troy before thumping Boston College 8-0 to advance to the Super Regional for the first time in 13 years. The Crimson Tide set the tone with four runs in the top of the first inning and allowed just four hits.
The Crimson Tide now travel to Winston-Salem to face No.1 overall seed Wake Forest, which made easy work of George Mason and Maryland to reach the Super Regionals. The Demon Deacons outscored their opponents 48-7 across three games, averaging the highest number of runs per game in Regional history.
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Tennessee at Southern Mississippi, 2 p.m. CT
Tennessee swept through the Clemson Regional, upsetting the top-seeded Tigers 6-5 in 14 innings on Saturday. The Volunteers avoided a rematch as Charlotte knocked Clemson out in the ensuing elimination game, and Tennessee took the Regional with a 9-2 win behind MVP Christian Moore.
Southern Mississippi won an Auburn Regional full of upsets, as Auburn was eliminated in two games and fourth-seeded Penn made a run to the Regional final. The Golden Eagles overcame an opening loss to Samford by eliminating Auburn and earning back-to-back wins over Penn.
Although the teams were even in seeding, Southern Miss will host this weekend’s series based on a “variety of selection criteria, including quality and availability of the facility, revenue potential, and attendance potential,” according to a statement from the NCAA.
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No. 12 Kentucky at No. 5 LSU, 2 p.m. CT
Kentucky went 4-1 as the host team in its Regional and eliminated West Virginia to set up a rematch with Indiana. The Wildcats avenged Saturday’s loss to the Hoosiers with a 16-6 win, forcing a decisive matchup on Monday, which Kentucky won 4-2 as first baseman Hunter Gilliam broke a 2-2 tie with an RBI double in the bottom of the sixth.
LSU made easy work of its home Regional. The Tigers started with a 7-2 win over Tulane and followed it with two straight wins over Oregon State, the region’s No.2 seed, to continue their season. LSU came up with 19 hits and four home runs in Sunday’s win to clinch its 26th Regional title.
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Texas at No. 8 Stanford, 7 p.m. CT
Texas emerged victorious from the Coral Gables Regional, beating Louisiana on Friday and eliminating ninth-ranked Miami on Sunday after two consecutive wins over the Hurricanes. The Longhorns advance to the Super Regionals for the third straight season.
Texas will travel West to face Stanford, the eighth-ranked team in the country. Stanford got a scare in three games against Texas A&M but made it to the next round with a 7-1 win over the Aggies on Monday. Third baseman Tommy Troy has been on fire, collecting 10 RBIs during the first weekend, including seven in two games on Saturday.
