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Florida Gators make NCAA Tournament, travel to Stillwater

Untitled designby:Nick de la Torre•05/27/24•

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GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The Florida Gators were selected as one of the 33-at-large teams for the 2024 NCAA Baseball Tournament. The 2024 NCAA Tournament is set to begin later that week with regionals on Friday, May 31. That sets the path to the 2024 Men’s College World Series, which begins Friday, June 14. 

The Gators will travel to Stillwater, Oklahoma to play in the Stillwater Regional hosted by Oklahoma State. Florida will open postseason play with a game against Nebraska on May 31. The game will open the Stilwater Regional and will start at 3 p.m. ET on Friday. ESPN+ will air the game.

With the NCAA announcing the complete, 64-team bracket and pairings on Monday, Florida earned a spot in an NCAA Regional for the 39th time in program history. 
 
This is the Gators’ 16th-consecutive NCAA Tournament berth under Head Coach Kevin O’Sullivan, which is the second-longest streak in the country. Florida has hosted an NCAA Regional in 12 out of a possible 15 seasons under O’Sullivan. The 2024 season marks just the third time the Gators will travel for a regional under Kevin O’Sullivan. In 2013, Florida finished the season one game over .500 and went to the Indiana Regional. In 2019 Florida was sent to the Lubbock Regional.

Florida Gators Regional Opponents

Stillwater Regional (Oklahome State State)

1. Oklahoma State 
2. Nebraska 
3. Florida 
4. Niagara

Full NCAA Tournament Bracket

SEC has 5 hosts and 11 teams make the tournament

Five Southeastern Conference baseball programs were selected among 16 regional hosts for the NCAA Baseball Championship, according to an announcement Sunday by the NCAA Division I Baseball Committee..

The five SEC schools named as NCAA Regional hosts are Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee and Texas A&M. They will begin play in the NCAA Tournament on Friday, May 31. The full 64-team field will be announced Monday on the NCAA Division I Baseball Selection show at 11 a.m. CT on ESPN2.

Each regional will consist of four teams playing in a double-elimination format. Regional winners will advance to best-of-three Super Regionals, with those eight winners advancing to the College World Series.

The other 11 regional hosts are: North Carolina, Virginia, Clemson, Oregon State, East Carolina, Oklahoma, NC State, UC Santa Barbara, Oklahoma State, Florida State and Arizona.

Tennessee won the SEC Tournament on Sunday with a 4-3 victory over LSU in the championship game. The Vols shared the SEC regular season title with Kentucky.

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