{"id":283230,"date":"2026-05-25T02:01:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T02:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/283230\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T02:01:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T02:01:07","slug":"florida-hosting-regional-in-2026-ncaa-baseball-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/283230\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida hosting regional in 2026 NCAA Baseball Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May 24, 2026, 9:00 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/sports\/college-sports\/sec\/florida\" data-autotag=\"13e400dd-2caf-4743-8f66-2d6e34ba4e99\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Florida Gators<\/a> will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncaa.com\/news\/baseball\/article\/2026-05-24\/sixteen-regional-sites-selected-2026-ncaa-di-baseball-championship\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">host a regional<\/a> in the NCAA Baseball Tournament for the 20th time in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The NCAA selection committee announced the 16 host sites for this year&#8217;s tournament on Sunday, naming Florida&#8217;s Condron Family Ballpark as the site of the Gainesville Regional. It&#8217;s Florida&#8217;s first time hosting since 2023, when the Gators made it all the way to the national championship series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">This is the 13th time Florida has hosted a regional under Kevin O&#8217;Sullivan. The Gators have made the NCAA Tournament in all 18 full seasons O&#8217;Sullivan has been the head coach. It&#8217;s Florida&#8217;s 41st all-time NCAA Regional appearance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The Gainesville Regional will take place over the weekend, starting on Friday and going through Monday, June 1, if needed. It&#8217;s double elimination, with three other teams set to be announced during Monday&#8217;s complete selection show, starting at noon ET. Florida will also find out if it is a top-eight seed on Monday, which determines home-field advantage through the NCAA Super Regionals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Winners of each regional will advance to a best-of-three NCAA Super Regional, and the winners of those series advance to the College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska. Super Regionals take place June 5-8, and the College World Series will be held June 12-22.<\/p>\n<p>Need a news break? <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (play)|e|auto spike click:5|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/play.usatoday.com\/?itm_source=SPIKE&amp;itm_campaign=PLAYSPIKE&amp;itm_medium=ONSITE\">Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a>2026 NCAA Baseball Tournament host sitesAthens, Georgia \u2013 Georgia (46-12)Atlanta, Georgia \u2013 Georgia Tech (48-9)Auburn, Alabama \u2013 Auburn (38-19)Austin, Texas \u2013 Texas (40-13)Chapel Hill, North Carolina \u2013 North Carolina (45-11-1)College Station, Texas \u2013 Texas A&amp;M (39-14)Eugene, Oregon \u2013 Oregon (40-16)Gainesville, Florida \u2013 Florida (39-19)Hattiesburg, Mississippi \u2013 Southern Mississippi (43-15)\u00a0Lawrence, Kansas \u2013 Kansas (42-16)Lincoln, Nebraska \u2013 Nebraska (42-15)Los Angeles, California \u2013 UCLA (51-6)Morgantown, West Virginia \u2013 West Virginia (39-14)Starkville, Mississippi \u2013 Mississippi State (40-17)Tallahassee, Florida \u2013 Florida State (38-17)Tuscaloosa, Alabama \u2013 Alabama (37-19)Conference BreakdownSEC (7): Alabama, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi State, Texas, Texas A&amp;MACC (3): Florida State, Georgia Tech, North CarolinaBig Ten (3): Nebraska, Oregon, UCLABig 12 (2): Kansas, West VirginiaSun Belt (1): Southern Mississippi<img class=\"gnt_em_cp_cw_i\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1779674467_657_73904848007-CWS-G3-2.jpeg\" data-gl- decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Follow us\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GatorsWire\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@GatorsWire<\/a>\u00a0on X, formerly known as Twitter, as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/gatorswire.bsky.social\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bluesky<\/a>, and like our page on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GatorsWire\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0to follow ongoing coverage of Florida Gators news, notes and opinions.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"May 24, 2026, 9:00 p.m. ET The Florida Gators will host a regional in the NCAA Baseball Tournament&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[31,28,30,29,113869,14113,14011,6203,299,58101,97,39,4814,14012,120422,96,4821,10077,300,34],"class_list":["post-283230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-accessfree","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-sourcegators-wire","tag-sstssportscollegegatorsbaseball","tag-sstsnbaseball","tag-tagbaseball","tag-tagcollege-sports","tag-tagcollege-world-series","tag-tagcolleges-universities","tag-tagflorida","tag-tagflorida-gators","tag-tagflorida-gators-baseball","tag-tagncaa-division-i-baseball-championship","tag-tagoverall-positive","tag-tagsec-hub","tag-tagsmg-breaking-wire","tag-tagsports-news","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}