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College World Series opponent set for winner of Athens Super Regional

The winner of the Georgia-NC State game will face the No. 2 national seed in their opening game of the College World Series

The winner of Game 3 of the Athens Super Regional between the Georgia Bulldogs and NC State Wolfpack will face the Kentucky Wildcats in the College World Series.

Georgia hosts NC State on Monday, June 10 at 7:00 p.m. ET in an elimination game that will decide the final team to advance to the College World Series. The Georgia-NC State game will be televised on ESPN.

The Kentucky Wildcats will be making their first ever appearance in the College World Series. Kentucky’s run to Omaha, Nebraska, is quite impressive. The Wildcats are 45-14 this season and is a perfect 5-0 in the NCAA Tournament. Kentucky, who is the No. 2 national seed, advanced past Oregon State in the Lexington Super Regional to make program history.

Kentucky will play against either the No. 7 national seed in Georgia or the No. 10 national seed in NC State. The Wildcats previously played against Georgia in March. Kentucky swept Georgia at home in a dominant series where the Wildcats accumulated 37 total runs against the Bulldogs.

The 2024 College World Series will be entirely composed of SEC and ACC teams.

The SEC historically dominates the NCAA Baseball Tournament field

The SEC has once again dominated the NCAA Tournament field with record numbers

On Monday, 64 college baseball teams heard their names called. The NCAA Tournament field is now set, and 16 regional hosts are granted home-field advantage for the first round of play. A record 11 SEC programs earned a bid to compete for the title.

For those who are die-hard college baseball fans, the fact that the SEC will hose five of the 16 regional sites isn’t too surprising after the season the conference produced led Tennessee, Kentucky, and Texas A&M, who earned the first three overall seeds in that order. This is the first time in the tournament that the first three seeds are from the same conference!

Following their conference counterparts, Arkansas and Georgia earned the five and seven seeds. Bulldogs power hitter Charlie Condon led the country in batting average (.443) and home runs with 35 on the year. In contrast, Razorbacks star pitcher Hagen Smith led the nation in ERA with a highly impressive 1.48 mark.

Outside of the five conference hosts, LSU will compete in the Chapel Hill Regional after almost winning the SEC Tournament in a close loss to the Volunteers. The Tigers are still riding the momentum train after almost missing the tournament just a year after winning the whole thing in 2023.

Here are where the remaining SEC programs will face off this week:

  • Vanderbilt vs. Coastal Carolina (Clemson Regional)
  • Alabama vs. UCF (Tallahassee Regional)
  • South Carolina vs. James Madison (Raleigh Regional)
  • Florida vs. Nebraska (Stillwater Regional)
  • Mississippi State vs. St. Johns (Charlottesville Regional)

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