The NCAA Division I Baseball Committee announced 20 predetermined regional sites for this year’s tournament.
The committee will choose 16 to host regional-round games. Eight of those 16 regional sites will host super regionals.
The 20 potential host site schools are:
Arizona, Arkansas, Charlotte, East Carolina, Florida, Gonzaga, Louisiana Tech, Mississippi State, Notre Dame, Ole Miss, Oregon, Pittsburgh, South Carolina, Southern Miss, Stanford, TCU, Tennessee, Texas, Texas Tech, Vanderbilt.
The NCAA will allow up to 50% fan capacity at these predetermined sites. Exact capacity percentages will vary by site, depending on state and local health mandates due to the pandemic.
The designation of predetermined sites will have no bearing on the teams selected to participate or for seeding in the 2021 Division I Baseball Championship. The championship field will consist of 30 conference automatic qualifiers and 34 at-large qualifiers.
The final 16 predetermined sites will be revealed on Sunday, May 30 at 8:30 p.m. EDT.
The bracket and pairings for the 2021 Division I Baseball Championship will be released at noon Eastern time Monday, May 31, on ESPN2.
All games of the 2021 NCAA Division I Baseball Championship will be broadcast on ESPN’s family of networks, starting with regionals June 4-7 and followed by super regionals June 11-14. The 2021 championship will conclude June 19-29/30 with the Men’s College World Series at TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha, Nebraska.