It is time for conference tournaments in college baseball. Let鈥檚 get ready for all of the tournaments to come as we wrap up the regular season.
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The Patriot League was the first to start on May 10, with the rest running through May 25. In total, 29 automatic bids will be handed out to the conference tournament champions.
Patriot League
The Patriot League championship between Army West Point and Holy Cross is this Saturday, May 17. Top-seeded Holy Cross is looking for an auto bid after advancing to the champ series for the first time since 2017.
Ivy League
The Ivy League tournament championship starts this weekend. Yale has the No. 1 seed led by freshman phenom Jack Ohman on the mound. He leads the country with a 1.08 ERA and was under 1 most of the year. Columbia is the 2 seed led by Sam Miller.
SEC
It is hard to know where to start with the SEC. What an absolute gauntlet. The competition in Hoover is going to feel like the Men's College World Series. It will host some of the biggest stars in college baseball and teams that have been beating up on one another all season long.
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Texas still stands on top of the SEC standings heading into the last weekend. It hadn't lost a series in the SEC till Arkansas swept them 鈥 and then Florida won the series over them. The Longhorns are without their ace Jared Spencer for the rest of the season, but the SEC title is still anyone's for the taking.
LSU took over the No. 1 spot in the national rankings after winning a series over Arkansas. Anthony Eyanson was spectacular on the mound. Plus you have Auburn, which has been on the rise. This team has beaten Vanderbilt, Alabama, Tennessee and swept LSU. Vandy and Georgia could be sleeper picks, too, but Bama and Tennessee are never out of the mix. And then you literally never know. Florida has been surging, and there are teams whose only hope of getting into the 红杏视频 tournament is winning the SEC tournament.
Big Ten
In the Big Ten, UCLA and Oregon sit in the driver's seat, but Iowa sits on top of the standings heading into the last weekend with a matchup against Oregon looming. Last year, Nebraska edged out Penn State for the title, so again, it's anyone's trophy. USC just won the series over UCLA to make their name known and is led by premier two-way star Ethan Hedges. Iowa has one of the best pitchers in the conference in Cade Obermueller and the best team batting average. Indiana鈥檚 Devin Taylor and Michigan鈥檚 Mitch Voit are always a threat. The Big Ten is more competitive than ever.
ACC
The ACC conference title should be fun with Florida State and North Carolina, the two front-runners, playing in a series right before the conference tournament starts. Plus, you know Clemson can compete with anyone with Cam Cannarella and Aidan Knaak leading that group. FSU has some of the biggest stars in college baseball with Jamie Arnold and Alex Lodise. The ACC tournament is going to be a good one.
Big 12
The Big 12 has varied all season, with West Virginia now ranked at No. 16 and sitting on top of the conference, but the Mountaineers just lost a series to Kansas State and are facing Kansas this weekend right before the tournament.
Here are some more to keep your eye on.
The Sun Belt tournament holds Coastal Carolina, Southern Miss and Troy, all top 25 teams.
Dallas Baptist sits on top of Conference USA, but watch out for Western Kentucky, which won a series earlier in the year.
In the CAA, Northeastern is on a 21-game win streak heading into the weekend鈥檚 last series. The Huskies have lost two games throughout conference play, once to Campbell and once to Towson, but have never dropped a series.
The Big West conference tournament should be fun with UC Irvine leading the way and Cal Poly
right behind in the standings.
In the American, East Carolina typically is the front-runner, but watch out for UTSA this year. It just won the series over the Pirates not too long ago and beat both Texas A&M and Texas in March. The Roadrunners have been cruising through the conference, boasting a really good offense with seven or more guys at a time hitting over .300.
Southland, ASUN, WAC, SoCon, MAC, so many more. These should all be great tournaments. I can't get through them all, but get ready for conference tournaments and a lot of auto-bids to be clinched all next week.
