NCAA baseball bracket 2024: Updated selections for regionals in Road to College World Series

The NCAA baseball tournament has not even begun, and already, there are some surprises.

Wake Forest entered the year with as much hype as any college baseball team in recent memory. The Demon Deacons have struggled, particularly on the pitching side, and now not only find themselves not as the top overall team as many projected, but preparing to play on the road in a regional.

But while it might be surprising given preseason expectations to see them left out of the national seeding, it is more surprising for teams like ACC tournament champion Duke and Conference USA tournament champion Dallas Baptist, a pair of standout programs that are among the hottest in the sport.

There are others that shouldn't be surprised to see they'll host postseason games. Tennessee is expected to be the top overall seed, leading a bevy of strong SEC teams that include squads like Kentucky, Texas A&M, Arkansas and Georgia. Three North Carolina teams — UNC, NC State and East Carolina — will host regionals as well after standout campaigns.

While there are 16 teams who know they'll be playing at home for a chance to reach the super regionals, the rest of the country will have to wait to see where they rank — if they wound up being seeded at all — in the 2024 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.

Sporting News tracked the announcement of the 2024 NCAA regionals. Follow for complete results from the selections.

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NCAA baseball tournament bracket 2024

The NCAA released their full slate of teams and national seeds at noon ET, on Monday, May 27. It had announced the host sites for the 16 regionals on Sunday.

The top 16 teams in the country will serve as regional hosts for four-team brackets. The regionals will start with the top team in each regional facing the fourth team, and the middle teams squaring off. The winners of each first game will move on to face one another while the loses of the first games will square off in an elimination game. The brackets continue until three teams have two losses each and are eliminated.

The winners of the double-elimination brackets will advance to the super regionals, which will be best-of-three matchups hosted by the higher seeds.

Regionals are paired up with the ones each will be facing in the super regionals. The No. 1 regional will face the No. 16, the No. 2 will face No. 15 and so on.

Knoxville Regional

1. Tennessee (1)
2. Southern Miss
3. Indiana
4. Northern Kentucky

Greenville Regional

1. East Carolina (16)
2. Wake Forest
3. VCU
4. Evansville

Lexington Regional

1. Kentucky (2)
2. Indiana State
3. Illinois
4. Western Michigan

Corvallis Regional

1. Oregon State (15)
2. UC Irvine
3. Nicholls
4. Tulane

Bryan-College Station Regional

1. Texas A&M (3)
2. Louisiana
3. Texas
4. Grambling

Santa Barbara Regional

1. UC Santa Barbara (14)
2. San Diego
3. Oregon
4. Fresno State

Chapel Hill Regional

1. North Carolina (4)
2. LSU
3. Wofford
4. Long Island

Tucson Regional

1. Arizona (13)
2. Dallas Baptist
3. West Virginia
4. Grand Canyon

Fayetteville Regional

1. Arkansas (5)
2. Louisiana Tech
3. Kansas State
4. Southeast Missouri State

Charlottesville Regional

1. Virginia (12)
2. Mississippi State
3. St. John's
4. Pennsylvania

Clemson Regional

1. Clemson (6)
2. Vanderbilt
3. Coastal Carolina
4. High Point

Stillwater Regional

1. Oklahoma State (11)
2. Nebraska
3. Florida
4. Niagara

Athens Regional

1. Georgia (7)
2. UNC Wilmington
3. Georgia Tech
4. Army

Raleigh Regional

1. NC State (10)
2. South Carolina
3. James Madison
4. Bryant

Tallahassee Regional

1. Florida State (8)
2. Alabama
3. UCF
4. Stetson

Norman Regional

1. Oklahoma (9)
2. Duke
3. UConn
4. Oral Roberts

NCAA baseball regional sites 2024

The NCAA announced the regional sites and host schools on May 26. The national seeding of each host school was announced May 27.