No. 2-seed Rice (35-22) plays No. 3-seed Southeastern Louisiana (39-19) in the other game Friday.
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National seeds are: 1.
The 2016 NCAA Baseball Tournament starts this weekend and concludes with the College World Series, which takes place from June 18th through the 29th in Omaha, Nebraska on the networks of ESPN. Host Clemson and Western Carolina round out that regional. U of L faced Wright State at home on March 16 and defeated the eventual Horizon League champs, 9-1. They were also paired in a super regional match in 2011, but Clemson lost to CT in the regional round while the Gamecocks eventually won their second national title. The Cards will face the victor of the Nashville Regional, headlined by arch-rival Vanderbilt.
All nine Regionals have come under the direction of Brian O’Connor. They will welcome No. 2 seed Coastal Carolina, No. 3 seed Saint Mary’s and No. 4 seed Navy at Doak field. NCAA opening regionals serve as four-team, double-elimination tournaments with winners advancing to play in a Super Region best-of-three series.
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Florida from the SEC grabbed the top seed with Louisville, Miami, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, Mississippi State and LSU rounding out the rest of the eight. 7 Florida State and also won games against then-No. Still, a second straight NCAA berths after six straight years of missing the field of 64 is nothing to sneeze at.
