COLLEGE BASEBALL

Clemson, Coastal find out foes in NCAA baseball regionals

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From staff and wire reports

The Clemson Tigers and the Coastal Carolina Chanticleers will both begin play in the NCAA tournament baseball regionals on Friday.

Clemson will take on Illinois at 4 p.m. in a regional in Oxford, Mississippi, while Coastal will be taking on Auburn in the Atlanta regional in noon. Both are No. 3 seeds.

Clemson received an at-large berth and brings a 34-24 record into the contest against Illinois, which is 36-19. The No. 1 seed is Mississippi which is 37-25 and will face 37-21 Jacksonville State.

The Chanticleers earned a berth in the tournament by winning the Sun Belt Conference tournament. Coastal is 35-24-1, while Auburn is 33-25. They will play at noon.

Georgia Tech, 41-17, is the No. 1 seed. It will take on Florida A&M, which is 27-32.

UCLA earns No. 1 national seed for NCAA baseball tournament

Pac-12 champion UCLA is the No. 1 national seed.

The Bruins (47-8) won every series for the first time in program history and carry a 10-game winning streak into the tournament.

The No. 2 seed is Vanderbilt (49-10), which has won 22 of its last 23 games and is the first team to sweep the Southeastern Conference regular-season and tournament championships since it did so in 2007.

Top eight national seeds play at home for super regionals if they win regionals. Behind UCLA and Vanderbilt are Georgia Tech, Georgia, Arkansas, Mississippi State, Louisville and Texas Tech.

The SEC has five of the top eight national seeds, and six of the 16 regional hosts. The final SEC host is Louisiana State.

The Atlantic Coast Conference, Big 12 and Pac-12 have three teams apiece hosting regionals. The ACC hosts are Georgia Tech, Louisville and North Carolina. Big 12 hosts are Oklahoma State, Texas Tech and West Virginia. Pac-12 hosts are defending national champion Oregon State, Stanford and UCLA.

East Carolina of the American Athletic Conference is the other host.