Tag: Regional Round

Diamond Heels Top 3 in a pair of final regular season rankings

Do the final regular-season rankings reflect how good the UNC baseball team is?

College baseball fans are in for a treat this weekend.

On Friday, May 31, the NCAA Tournament begins with 16 separate 4-team regionals. Players reacted in jubilee when their teams’ names were called, while coaches from other teams were shocked at not hearing theirs.

Thanks to an outstanding regular season which saw the first ACC Regular Season Championship since 2018, more than half of its starting lineup hit over .300 and a new staff ace discovered in Jason DeCaro, the North Carolina Tar Heels are one of the 16 Regional Hosts.

UNC will open up Regional play against Long Island University on Friday, May 31 at 12 p.m., then play at either 12 p.m. (elimination game) or 5 p.m. on June 1. If North Carolina wins Friday and then again on Saturday, it’ll play Sunday for a chance at advancing to a Super Regional.

If you haven’t already, make sure you check out the full Chapel Hill Regional Schedule.

Ahead of Friday’s Regional opener, the Diamond Heels earned a consensus Top-6 ranking.

UNC has its work cut out in Boshamer Stadium, where it is 32-2 this season. North Carolina will have to play either defending National Champion LSU or a 40-win Radford squad on Saturday.

The Diamond Heels last hosted a Regional in 2022, when it fought its way through the elimination bracket and beat VCU in back-to-back days, to advance and host Arkansas in a Super Regional.

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Social media stunned after No. 2 UCLA eliminated from NCAA softball tournament

Social media reacts to the stunning elimination of the No. 2 UCLA Bruins from the NCAA Softball tournament.

Upsets happen all the time in the NCAA Tournament. Whether it’s basketball, baseball or lacrosse we see Davids beat Goliaths all the time in collegiate postseason play.

However, what we don’t see all the time is the No. 2 seed in the tournament not making it out of the opening weekend, especially in a double-elimination format.

But that’s what happened to the No. 2 UCLA Bruins this weekend. After losing to Grand Canyon on Friday night, the Bruins were upset by the Liberty Flames on Saturday in a stunning 2-1 loss.

The last time UCLA was eliminated from the regional round of the tournament was 2013. That was the third season in a row in which it failed to qualify for the super regional.

The stunning upset opens the door for San Diego State to advance if it beats Liberty in the regional final on Sunday. The winner would face the winner of the Salt Lake City regional between Utah and Ole Miss.

Social media was buzzing Saturday evening at the elimination of the UCLA Bruins and here are some of the best reactions.