Kentucky Baseball in a good spot before last series of the regular season

Before Kentucky Baseball hosts Florida in the last series on the schedule, let’s check in on the Wildcats’ postseason outlook heading into the last weekend of the regular season. Kentucky has won four of seven, including a game in Knoxville, to bounce back from an April slump. Now a national seed in the NCAA Tournament is well within reach should Kentucky handle its business at Kentucky Proud Park over the next three days.

As D1 Baseball sees it, Kentucky is currently in a position to host postseason baseball in Lexington as the No. 10 overall seed in its latest projection for the Field of 64. There are 16 seeded teams in the field, which will be finalized once conference tournaments are completed next week. Until then, here’s how D1 Baseball forecasts those spots:

1. Wake Forest
2. Arkansas
3. Florida
4. LSU
5. Stanford
6. West Virginia
7. Clemson
8. Vanderbilt
9. Virginia
10. Kentucky
11. South Carolina
12. Coastal Carolina
13. Miami
14. Oklahoma State
15. Duke
16. Oregon State

D1’s projection brings Indiana State, Iowa, and Wright State to the Bluegrass for the hypothetical Lexington Regional.

A Lexington Super Regional is still a dream worth dreaming, too. The Cats can move up to a top-8 seed with a sweep of the Gators in this weekend’s series, and maybe some help. Vanderbilt has three in Nashville versus Arkansas, the projected No. 2 seed, while Virginia travels to Georgia Tech, a team squarely on the bubble and in need of some wins.

Go Cats. Beat Florida. (Preferably three times.)

Kentucky’s final homestand

Thursday, May 18: FLORIDA, 6:30 p.m. at Kentucky Proud Park (SEC Network +)

Friday, May 19: FLORIDA, 6:30 p.m. at Kentucky Proud Park (SEC Network +)

Saturday, May 20: FLORIDA, 2:00 p.m. at Kentucky Proud Park (SEC Network +)