INDIANAPOLIS — The University of Kentucky was named a regional host site Sunday for the NCAA Division I baseball tournament. 

What You Need To Know

  • The Atlantic Coast Conference and Southeastern Conference each selected five regional host sites Sunday for the NCAA Division I baseball tournament 

  • Kentucky (40-14) was one of the schools selected 

  • Tennessee (50-11), which won the SEC Tournament and will host a regional, is expected to be the No. 1 overall seed for the NCAA Tournament 

  • All 16 regional hosts announced by the Division I Baseball Committee locked up spots in the national tournament

The Atlantic Coast Conference and Southeastern Conference each selected five schools. All 16 regional hosts announced by the Division I Baseball Committee locked up spots in the national tournament. The rest of the 64-team field and first-round matchups will be unveiled Monday.

Tennessee (50-11), which won the SEC Tournament and will host a regional, is expected to be the No. 1 overall seed for the NCAA Tournament. Along with Kentucky (40-14), Arkansas (43-14), Georgia (39-15) and Texas A&M (44-13) were also selected as host sites from the SEC.

Clemson (41-14), Florida State (42-15), North Carolina State (33-20), North Carolina (42-13) and Virginia (41-15) led the way for the ACC as hosts for the four-team, double-elimination regionals. It's the 36th time Florida State is hosting, the most in NCAA Division I history.

Also hosting regionals scheduled from Friday through next Monday are: Oklahoma (37-19) — for the first time since 2010 — and Oklahoma State (40-17) from the Big 12; Arizona (36-21) and Oregon State (42-14) from the Pac-12; East Carolina (43-15) from the American Athletic Conference; and UC Santa Barbara (42-12) from the Big West.

It's the second time UC Santa Barbara is hosting a regional, but the first on campus after it hosted at a neutral site at Lake Elsinore in 2015.

The 16 regional winners advance to the best-of-three super regionals, and those eight winners go to the College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska, beginning June 14.

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