Auburn hosts, Alabama hits the road as NCAA Baseball regionals begin

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May 28, 2025

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The postseason of college baseball is officially underway, with conference tournaments now complete and the NCAA Tournament set to kick off Friday as the road to Omaha begins.

To reach the College World Series, teams must first advance through a four-team regional and then a super regional. Regionals are structured as four-team, double-elimination tournaments, while the super regionals are best-of-three series.

With 16 total regionals, only a select number of teams are granted hosting privileges — but notably, half of those sites will be on SEC campuses. All four of the tournament’s top seeds hail from the SEC, as do five of the top six, including the Auburn Tigers.

Continuing our habit of hosting. 📈#WarEagle pic.twitter.com/W2qEdvcYvu

— Auburn Baseball (@AuburnBaseball) May 27, 2025

The No. 4 seeded Tigers — tied for highest seed in program history — host a regional which includes a matchup this Friday against Central Connecticut. The other two teams headed to The plains are North Carolina State and Stetson, who will face off that afternoon to see who goes to an elimination game.

As for the Alabama Crimson Tide, they have quite the challenge on their hands after landing the No. 17 overall seed and just out of hosting territory.

They head to Hattiesburg for a regional which includes Southern Miss, Columbia, and Miami. Alabama faces Miami Friday night to try to get started on the right foot.

Alabama Baseball Earns No. 2 Seed at NCAA Hattiesburg Regional from May 30-June 2

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— Alabama Baseball (@AlabamaBSB) May 26, 2025

Should the Tide earn the right to go though, they will likely receive the reward of a super regional in Nashville against the No. 1 overall seeded Vanderbilt Commodores.

Alabama is trying to get back to Omaha for what would be the first time since 1999, meanwhile Auburn is trying to get back for the first time since 2022 after ending a drought since 1997 back in 2019.

It should be an exciting postseason across the South as teams try to win what is one of the most exciting brackets in sports and earn their way to college baseball immortality.

Michael Brauner is a Senior Sports Analyst and Contributing Writer for Yellowhammer News. You can follow him on Twitter @MBraunerWNSP and hear him every weekday morning from 6 to 9 a.m. on “The Opening Kickoff” on WNSP-FM 105.5, available free online.