The 2014 NCAA Baseball Tournament has been anything but predictable on The Road To Omaha, with five of the eight national seeds failing to make it out of the Regional Round. More upsets during this past weekend’s Super Regional Round makes for an interesting final eight teams who will make the trek to Omaha to compete in a double-elimination tournament at TD Ameritrade Park beginning on Saturday. The SEC can still boast the fact that is was able to send two teams to Omaha, although they were likely not the first two that people would have predicted entering the field of 64. The Florida Gators, LSU Tigers and South Carolina Gamecocks not only did not make it to the 2014 CWS in Omaha, but were not even able to make it out of the first round. That was not the case for the Vanderbilt Commodores and Ole Miss Rebels, who were able to advance in three games. Still, while two teams will represent the SEC, three will be present from the Lonestar State of Texas, with all of them coming from the Big 12 conference. The Texas Longhorns, who have more CWS appearances than the other seven teams combined, will be joined by the TCU Horned Frogs and the Texas Tech Red Raiders.
Rounding out the elite eight are the Virginia Cavaliers, Louisville Cardinals and UC Irvine Anteaters. The Cardinals are the only team to make it back to the CWS in Omaha in consecutive seasons, while the Cavs are looking for the first baseball national championship for the ACC in nearly 60 years.
The tournament now boils down to a pair of double-elimination brackets that will wind down to two teams facing off in a best-of-three series to determine the 2014 CWS champion. The first two games in the top half of the bracket will begin on Saturday afternoon and feature matchups between UC Irvine and Texas, followed by Louisville and Vanderbilt at night. Sunday’s games will be Texas Tech tangling with TCU in the afternoon, and Virginia squaring off against Ole Miss in the evening.
You can click here for a full look at the bracket, including matchup information and a look at how we got to Omaha. Either way, the NCAA will crown a new national champion in the world of baseball, as the UCLA Bruins defeated the Mississippi State Bulldogs in 2013.
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