College Baseball Regional 2022: Bracket, Schedule and Hosts

The first details of the NCAA baseball tournament bracket were released Sunday night.

The 16 sites for the regional round were announced as conference tournament play across the nation started to wind down.

The Tennessee Volunteers, who have been the best team in the country all season, headlined the list of host teams for the opening weekend of the NCAA tournament.

Four ACC and SEC programs earned hosting privileges. The Big 12 and Pac-12 were the other conferences to earn multiple host sites.

The entire bracket will be released Monday afternoon. The release will include the seeding order and bracketing of the top 16 seeds in the NCAA tournament.

Regionals take place June 3-6. Four teams are assigned to each region. The 16 winners from the double-elimination format move on to the super-regionals.

Regional Hosts

Tennessee

Virginia Tech

Stanford

Oregon State

Texas A&M

Miami (FL)

Louisville

Oklahoma State

Maryland

Southern Miss

East Carolina

Auburn

Texas

Florida

North Carolina

Georgia Southern

The 16 regional host sites were announced Sunday, but the order of the national seeds was not.

It is widely expected that the Volunteers will be the No. 1 seed when the full field of 64 is released Monday.

The Vols own a 53-7 record and swept the SEC regular-season and tournament championships.

Tennessee should be drawn with some of the weaker teams in the regional round because of its expected top seeding.

The winner of Tennessee's regional will go on to face the winner of the regional hosted by the No. 16 seed.

The NCAA baseball tournament bracket operates just like other knockout competitions, where No. 1 is paired with No. 16, No. 2 with No. 15 and so on.

Because a non-national seed could upset a national seed in the regional round, the super-regional sites do not get released until the end of the regionals. The expectation is for most of the top national seeds to host super-regionals if they advance.

The Auburn Tigers, Florida Gators and Texas A&M Aggies joined Tennessee as regional hosts from the SEC.

The SEC is traditionally the toughest conference in college baseball, and it should have the most representatives in the field of 64.

Tennessee and Florida are repeat regional hosts from last season. The East Carolina Pirates, Texas Longhorns and Stanford Cardinal also fit into that category.

Texas and the Oklahoma State Cowboys are the Big 12 hosts. The Oregon State Beavers join Stanford as Pac-12 hosts. The ACC has four host teams, led by the Miami Hurricanes, who have the second-most regional hosting opportunities in tournament history behind Texas.

Eight conferences have host teams for the regional round. The American Athletic Conference, Conference USA and Sun Belt each have one from the mid-major ranks.