Wes Johnson shares reaction to Georgia NCAA Tournament seeding

The Georgia baseball team earned the No. 7 national seed in this year’s NCAA Tournament and with it the right to host a Super Regional should the Bulldogs advance from the regional round of action.

It’s a huge accomplishment for first-year coach Wes Johnson.

“I don’t know that it was surprising,” Johnson said. “I mean there’s a lot of things they look at. We did some good stuff this year, right?”

Georgia did indeed do plenty of good stuff this year, winning 39 games and losing just 15 in a tremendous campaign in the SEC. The Bulldogs are powered by slugger Charlie Condon, who has been otherworldly at times this year.

Simply put, this is a team with plenty of answers. That’s something it showed throughout the year.

“I mean this regular season, it’s over, but we beat a Clemson team here that was really good,” Johnson said. “You look, I mean I go all the way back to Northern Kentucky. I kept telling people how good they were. They won their conference tournament. They’re going to give some people fits. Then Georgia Tech‘s in, they’re in our region, we took two from them. Then going through the league, I mean sweeping Alabama, sweeping Vanderbilt, sweeping South Carolina at South Carolina. All three of those teams are in the tournament.”

Georgia also had some success against top-level teams in the conference. And there were some truly elite teams at the top of the league this year.

“Then you look at, it was kind of crazy when you hear Tennessee and A&M, they were talking, I don’t want to misquote, but whatever they are and three,” Johnson said. “They’re 30-something and three at home and we’re one of those three losses. Those are tough places to play. So you look at our total body of work and I’m not on the committee and I’m not here to say that somebody shouldn’t have got it or should got it or whatever else. But I felt pretty good about our resume.”

Georgia earned the right to host the Athens Regional, which will pit the Bulldogs against Army (31-21), while UNC-Wilmington (39-19) will take on Georgia Tech (31-23).