Troy University, a school of 20,000 people in Alabama's Wiregrass region, flew to the Gainesville Regional as the No. 3 seed and proceeded to dismantle No. 8 Florida twice inside McKethan Stadium. The Gators scored 22 runs in a game against Miami earlier in the weekend. Against Troy they scored 13 across two losses, the second of which was a 10-2 demolition in Game 7 that sent Florida home and handed a program that had never hosted a Super Regional in its history the keys to one. Troy will host Little Rock next weekend, which itself is going to the Super Regionals for the first time ever after knocking out Southern Miss in Hattiesburg. For the first time in the history of the NCAA baseball tournament, two No. 4 seeds are in the Super Regionals at the same time.

That is where the weekend started, at the bottom of the bracket. The top of the bracket was no calmer.

Oklahoma came to Atlanta as a No. 3 seed to face No. 2 overall seed Georgia Tech, the team that had been installed as the national championship favorite after UCLA's ouster. The Yellow Jackets were explosive all week, scoring 22 runs in their opener, never fewer than seven in any game. They led Oklahoma 8-4 heading into the bottom of the ninth inning of a winner-take-all regional final. Then the Sooners scored four. Then Dayton Tockey walked to the plate in the tenth inning against the Georgia Tech bullpen and hit a baseball 454 feet to dead center field. Oklahoma won 8-7. The broadcast team called it a swing that will live in Sooner lore. Georgia Tech, the ACC champion with the most dangerous offense in the country, went home having never lost by more than one run all weekend.

In Morgantown, West Virginia built a 5-1 lead against Kentucky in Game 7, then watched Hudson Brown hit a 440-foot three-run homer in the eighth and Ethan Hindle follow with another one two batters later, tying the game at five. In the bottom of the tenth, with 4,607 fans inside Kendrick Family Ballpark singing his walk-up song, Armani Guzman lined a single to center field and scored Brodie Kresser standing up. The stadium shifted into Country Roads for twenty minutes. WVU coach Steve Sabins, when he could hear himself think, called it cinema. West Virginia has been to the last two Super Regionals and lost both. This time Morgantown stays home, hosting Cal Poly starting Friday in the program's first-ever Super Regional at Kendrick Family Ballpark.

Cal Poly got there by surviving the most chaotic regional of the weekend in Los Angeles, which featured four walk-off wins across five games. Saint Mary's, a 35-25 team from a school of 4,200 students in Moraga, California, opened the Los Angeles Regional by beating No. 1 overall seed UCLA 3-2, the first time a No. 1 national seed had lost a regional opener since the seeding era began in 1999. UCLA clawed back, beat Virginia Tech on a walk-off, then ran into Saint Mary's again and lost 6-5 in ten innings. The wire-to-wire top-ranked program in college baseball, built around projected No. 1 overall MLB Draft pick Roch Cholowsky, did not win its own regional. Cal Poly did.

In Tallahassee, St. John's came in as the No. 4 seed, beat host Florida State in the opener, survived Northern Illinois, and then beat the Seminoles again 5-4 on Monday on a fifth-inning grand slam from Adam Agresti to win the regional. The Red Storm are going to Tuscaloosa to face No. 7 Alabama. Alabama needed eleven innings to beat Oklahoma State in their own regional, surviving a ninth inning rally and a ten-inning scare before advancing.

Auburn spent three days climbing out of a hole they dug themselves in the opener, when Milwaukee beat them 13-8. Chase Fralick hit six home runs across the regional weekend, a total that belongs nowhere near a conversation about one tournament round, and Auburn beat Milwaukee twice on Monday to become the only national seed to lose its opening game and still win a regional. They host Ole Miss next weekend.

North Carolina won the Chapel Hill Regional cleanly, beating East Carolina twice and VCU, and now hosts USC, the team that came into the College Station Regional as the No. 2 seed, got beaten 17-2 by Texas A&M in the winners bracket, then won four straight including two wins over the Aggies to take their own regional. USC is going to the Super Regionals for the first time since 2005.

By the time the final Game 7 ended Monday night, the record book had been rewritten across nearly every category that matters. Seven national seeds eliminated before the Super Regionals. Six regions decided by a final game. Two No. 4 seeds in the final 16 simultaneously for the first time ever. Four programs going to the Super Regionals for the first time in history.

The full picture of what these programs spent to put these rosters together is at https://thesideline.co/nil-tracker. What four days of college baseball just proved is that the money does not read the bracket.

Super Regionals begin Friday. Eight series, sixteen teams, one destination. The road to Omaha runs through Troy, Alabama this year. No one saw that coming.

College Baseball Report · June 2, 2026 · Omaha, Nebraska