University of Southern Mississippi Athletics
Baseball Named Potential Regional Hosting Site for 2021 NCAA Tournament
5/14/2021 11:31:00 AM | Baseball
HATTIESBURG, Miss. – Southern Miss and Pete Taylor Park have been predetermined as a potential regional round site for the NCAA 2021 Baseball Tournament set to take place, June 4-7. A total of 20 sites were announced Friday.
Due to the health and safety protocols surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, it was deemed necessary to conduct NCAA championship competition at predetermined sites. Of the 20 selected sites, the committee will choose 16 to host regional-round games. Eight of those 16 regional sites will host super regionals.
Those sites include:
Arizona (Tucson)
Arkansas (Fayetteville)
Charlotte (Gastonia*)
East Carolina (Greenville)
Florida (Gainesville)
Gonzaga (Spokane)
Louisiana Tech (Ruston)
Mississippi State (Starkville)
Notre Dame (South Bend)
Ole Miss (Oxford)
Oregon (Eugene)
Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh)
South Carolina (Columbia)
Southern Miss (Hattiesburg)
Stanford (Stanford)
Tennessee (Knoxville)
Texas (Austin)
Texas Tech (Lubbock)
TCU (Fort Worth)
Vanderbilt (Nashville)
* Bid is for FUSE Ballpark in Gastonia, N.C.
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 at 8:30 p.m. Eastern time Sunday, May 30.
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 culminate June 19-29/30 with the Men's College World Series at TD Ameritrade Park Omaha in Omaha, Nebraska.
Southern Miss has played host to two NCAA regionals, which were in 2003 and 2017.
Due to the health and safety protocols surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, it was deemed necessary to conduct NCAA championship competition at predetermined sites. Of the 20 selected sites, the committee will choose 16 to host regional-round games. Eight of those 16 regional sites will host super regionals.
Those sites include:
Arizona (Tucson)
Arkansas (Fayetteville)
Charlotte (Gastonia*)
East Carolina (Greenville)
Florida (Gainesville)
Gonzaga (Spokane)
Louisiana Tech (Ruston)
Mississippi State (Starkville)
Notre Dame (South Bend)
Ole Miss (Oxford)
Oregon (Eugene)
Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh)
South Carolina (Columbia)
Southern Miss (Hattiesburg)
Stanford (Stanford)
Tennessee (Knoxville)
Texas (Austin)
Texas Tech (Lubbock)
TCU (Fort Worth)
Vanderbilt (Nashville)
* Bid is for FUSE Ballpark in Gastonia, N.C.
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 at 8:30 p.m. Eastern time Sunday, May 30.
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 culminate June 19-29/30 with the Men's College World Series at TD Ameritrade Park Omaha in Omaha, Nebraska.
Southern Miss has played host to two NCAA regionals, which were in 2003 and 2017.
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