NCAA Baseball Tournament Cuts to 16 Teams as 4 National Seeds Fall in 6 Winner-Take-All Games
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Updated · NCAA.com · Jun 2
NCAA Baseball Tournament Cuts to 16 Teams as 4 National Seeds Fall in 6 Winner-Take-All Games
3 articles · Updated · NCAA.com · Jun 2
Six winner-take-all regional finals trimmed the 2026 NCAA baseball field to 16, with only No. 4 Auburn and No. 16 West Virginia surviving among the national seeds in action.
Oklahoma delivered the biggest shock when Dayton Tockey crushed a 454-foot walk-off homer in the 10th to eliminate No. 2 Georgia Tech after the Sooners erased a 7-3 deficit.
St. John's beat No. 10 Florida State 5-4 on Adam Agresti's grand slam, joining Little Rock as the first two No. 4 seeds ever to reach super regionals in the same year.
Troy knocked out No. 8 Florida 10-6 after scoring 26 runs across two games, while USC ousted No. 12 Texas A&M 7-1 and West Virginia walked off Kentucky 6-5 in 10 innings.
The results extended a recent trend of top seeds falling early—the second straight year the No. 1 and No. 2 national seeds both failed to reach the super regionals.