Complete schedule for Gainesville Super Regional
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Florida Gators are back in a Super Regional for the first time since 2018. The Gators beat Texas Tech in a seventh and final game in the Gainesville Regional. Florida will host South Carolina starting Friday in a best-of-three series. The winner will punch its ticket to Omaha, Nebraska and the College World Series.
The Gators and Gamecocks met earlier in the season. South Carolina swept the series over Florida at home.
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Friday, June 9 – 6:00 pm – ESPN2
Saturday, June 10 – 3:00 pm – ESPN2
Sunday, June 11 – TBD
The Complete Super Regional Schedule
1 Wake Forest vs 16 Alabama
2 Florida vs 15 South Carolina
TCU vs 14 Indiana State
Tennessee vs Southern Miss
5 LSU vs 12 Kentucky
Oregon vs Oral Roberts
7 Virginia vs Duke
8 Stanford vs Texas
Total number of Super Regionals by school
LSU – 16
Texas – 14
Stanford – 14
South Carolina – 14
Florida – 11
Virginia – 8
TCU – 8
Tennessee – 5
Alabama – 4
Wake Forest – 3
Southern Miss – 3
Duke – 3
Oregon – 2
Kentucky – 2
Oral Roberts – 2
Indiana State – 1
Gators notes
- Florida won its 15th NCAA Regional title including the program’s ninth under Head Coach Kevin O’Sullivan.
- The Gators advance to Super Regionals for the first time since 2018.
- Florida will be hosting its ninth Super Regional since 2008, which leads the nation.
- This is the first time since 1998 that Florida has won three-straight do-or-die games to win a Regional.
- The Gators won their first NCAA Regional out of the loser’s bracket out of seven attempts in the O’Sullivan era.
- The Gators played in their second-straight NCAA Regional final against a Big-12 opponent.
- The Gators have played in 10 Regional finals under O’Sullivan.
- Florida is now 123-83 all-time in the NCAA Tournament.
- The Gators are 86-51 in NCAA Regional play.
- UF is hosting its 19th NCAA Regional while making the 38th Regional appearance in program history.
- Florida has hosted 12 out of a possible 15 Regionals in the O’Sullivan era.
- Langford hit his 18th home run of the season with a solo shot in the third inning, marking his seventh-career postseason home run.
- Langford has homered in all four postseason series that he has played in.
- Riopelle broke out of an 0-for-15 NCAA Tournament slump with a two-run home run to move the score to 3-0 in the fourth inning.
- Riopelle hit another two-run shot in the fifth, marking his third multi-homer game of the season and the fourth of his career.
- The second home run marked Riopelle’s 15th of the season including his fifth of the 2023 postseason (three at SEC Tournament).
- Riopelle hit another two-run shot in the fifth, marking his third multi-homer game of the season and the fourth of his career.
- Slater fired five shutout innings in his third start of the season, allowing just three hits and two walks.
- The outings was Slater’s second of at least five innings of the season following his six-inning start against Florida State on April 11.
- Florida has hit 126 home runs this season, which ranks second in a single season in program history behind the 1998 team (132).
- Florida has struck out 644 batters in 541 innings – translating to 10.7 per nine innings, which would mark a new program record.
- The Gators have 611 hits through 63 games (9.7 hits/game).
- The Gators have scored in 44.1% of batted innings (226 of 513).
- Florida is now 3-3 all-time vs. Texas Tech, all of which have taken place in the postseason in the O’Sullivan era.
