Auburn baseball tabbed No. 3 seed in latest NCAA postseason projections
AUBURN — Auburn baseball strengthened their postseason position after taking two of three against then No. 1 LSU last weekend. That series victory came on the heels of taking two of three at then No. 2 South Carolina.
The latest postseason projections from NCAA.com place Auburn as the No. 3 seed in the Storrs, Conn. regional with No. 1 seed UConn. The Huskies are projected the No. 16 overall national seed. Virginia is the projected No. 2 seed, with Central Connecticut State the No. 4 seed.
Auburn sits at 27-19 overall, 20-9 at home and 5-10 on the road this season.
The Tigers have won three straight series heading into this weekend’s series at Ole Miss. The season ends with a series at home against Missouri. If Auburn could take two of three in the next two weekends, they would finish the last 15 games of the SEC schedule at 10-5. That’s a stark contrast to their 5-10 record in the first 15 games of the league schedule.
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Mark Etheridge, Kendall Rogers and Aaron Fitt project 11 teams from the SEC making the postseason. They still consider Auburn a “bubble” team, as the Tigers’ RPI has risen to 29th nationally.
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AT-LARGE LADDER:
Last five in to last five out, from strongest to weakest:
60. NC State
61. Texas Tech
62. UTSA
63. Texas State
64. Troy
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65. UC Irvine
66. Virginia Tech
67. Oklahoma
68. USC
69. Rutgers
| 2023 FIELD OF 64 PROJECTIONS: WEEK 13 |
|---|
| WINSTON-SALEM |
| 1 Wake Forest* (1) |
| 4 Rider* |
| 2 Indiana |
| 3 Texas Tech |
| BATON ROUGE |
| 1 LSU* (2) |
| 4 Nicholls* |
| 2 Cal State Fullerton* |
| 3 UTSA |
| NASHVILLE |
| 1 Vanderbilt (3) |
| 4 Alabama State* |
| 2 Southern Miss |
| 3 Kansas State |
| FAYETTEVILLE |
| 1 Arkansas (4) |
| 4 SE Missouri State* |
| 2 Texas |
| 3 Washington |
| STANFORD |
| 1 Stanford* (5) |
| 4 San Diego State* |
| 2 Alabama |
| 3 UC Santa Barbara |
| DURHAM |
| 1 Duke (6) |
| 4 Loyola Marymount* |
| 2 East Carolina* |
| 3 UNC Wilmington* |
| MORGANTOWN |
| 1 West Virginia* (7) |
| 4 Wright State* |
| 2 Maryland* |
| 3 Texas State |
| LEXINGTON |
| 1 Kentucky (8) |
| 4 Kent State* |
| 2 Indiana State* |
| 3 Notre Dame |
| STORRS |
| 1 Connecticut* (16) |
| 4 Central Conn. State* |
| 2 Virginia |
| 3 Auburn |
| STILLWATER |
| 1 Oklahoma State (15) |
| 4 Oral Roberts* |
| 2 Dallas Baptist* |
| 3 Texas A&M |
| BRIGHTON |
| 1 Boston College (14) |
| 4 Harvard* |
| 2 Oregon State |
| 3 Northeastern |
| CORAL GABLES |
| 1 Miami (13) |
| 4 Sam Houston* |
| 2 Oregon |
| 3 Florida Gulf Coast* |
| CONWAY |
| 1 Coastal Carolina* (12) |
| 4 Wofford* |
| 2 Tennessee |
| 3 NC State |
| CLEMSON |
| 1 Clemson (11) |
| 4 Davidson* |
| 2 Campbell* |
| 3 Georgia |
| COLUMBIA |
| 1 South Carolina (10) |
| 4 Maine* |
| 2 North Carolina |
| 3 Iowa |
| GAINESVILLE |
| 1 Florida (9) |
| 4 Army* |
| 2 Arizona State |
| 3 Troy |
*Automatic qualifying bid
