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College World Series Selection Show Preview

Posted on the 01 June 2012 by Lifeofasportswife @jessaolson
College World Series Regionals start TODAY. Monday (Memorial Day) the committee announced the 64 teams heading to regional action. Gary and I are went to BWW to watch the Preview show. We are both huge baseball fans so this is like Christmas morning. While watching the show I was taking notes for the blog, and one of the waitress mentioned her love for softball.After finishing up the Big 12 tourney at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark in Downtown OKC had us pumped for Selection Show. Yes, I am aware we are probably the only people excited to watch the preview show. I was shocked to see people on twitter talking so much about the selection show. It was great to talk with people all over about college baseball. At the beginning of the show, they announced the national top eight seeds:1. Florida (42-18) SEC2. UCLA (42-14) Pac 123. Florida St (43-15) ACC4. Baylor (44-14) Big 125. Oregon (42-17) Pac 126. North Carolina (44-14) ACC 7. LSU (43-16) SEC8. South Carolina (40-17) SECRegional InformationSixty four teams are selected to go to 1 of 16 schools that host regionals. This year the teams are Florida, North Carolina State, Virginia, South Carolina, Oregon, Purdue, Rice, Baylor, UCLA, Texas A&M, Miami (Fl), LSU, North Carolina, Arizona, Stanford, Florida State. Each of these 16 schools are the 1 seed in their regional. These games are double elimination, and winner goes to super regionals.  Super RegionalJune 8-10 or June 9-11 are super regionals and are a best of three series. Then the winners of go to the College World Series in Omaha Jun 15-26. The first round pairings are double elimination. The CWS Finals are best of three. Surprises: The schools that are out that many people thought they would be in the tourney are Texas, Utah Valley, and Maryland. Texas been every year since 1998. Utah Valley had the most wins this season with 47. Maryland had the best RBI. Jessa's CWS Teams:Florida, S. Carolina, UCLA, LSU, Mizzou, Mississippi State, Baylor, OregonGary's CWS Teams:He hasn't gotten them to me yet. Questions:1. Who do you think will win the CWS? 

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