If the college baseball season ended this week, D1Baseball thinks there’d be regional action in Durham.
In the last 64-team projection shared on Wednesday, the popular baseball site slotted Duke in as the 13th overall seed. The top 16 teams in the field host four-team regional tournaments, a double-elimination bracket with the winner advancing to a best-of-three super regional series.
The Blue Devils currently sit inside the top 10 on both the USA TODAY Sports Baseball Coaches Poll and the D1Baseball Top 25, but a 14-10 record in conference play could limit Duke from moving into the highest spots. A Tuesday win over No. 6 East Carolina, however, might change the math, as could a series victory over No. 11 North Carolina next weekend.
D1Baseball projected UC Irvine, Florida, and Columbia as the second, third, and fourth seed in the hypothetical Durham Region. The Gators offer a scare, as they made the College World Series just last year, and No. 16 UC Irvine is 34-10 on the season.
The winner of the Durham Region, in the proposed bracket, would face the winner of the Clemson Region, hosted by the Clemson Tigers.