{"id":283979,"date":"2026-05-25T19:57:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T19:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/283979\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T19:57:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T19:57:26","slug":"virginia-baseball-receives-at-large-bid-will-play-cusa-champ-jacksonville-state-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/283979\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia baseball receives at-large bid, will play CUSA champ Jacksonville State Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WDBJ) &#8211; Virginia baseball fans felt pretty good about their chances of making it into the NCAA tournament as an at-large.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Virginia baseball defeats Duke, 6-4, in the ACC Tournament.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/SSLCPZBIS5GDDC7CS5TYCSRZKM.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"652\" \/>Virginia baseball defeats Duke, 6-4, in the ACC Tournament.(Virginia Cavaliers)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">That mission has been accomplished, but some tough matchups lie ahead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Cavaliers will play in the Hattiesburg, MS regional, hosted by Southern Miss. The Hoos will play Conference USA champs Jacksonville State Friday night at 7 on ESPN2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">After missing the tournament in 2025, first year coach Chris Pollard helped UVa find their footing this year, with a 36-21 record overall. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Jacksonville State (36-13) is fresh off a 10-0 run rule win over Liberty in the Conference USA championship. Southern Miss (44-15) and Little Rock (36-26) round out the bracket.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WDBJ. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WDBJ) &#8211; Virginia baseball fans felt pretty good about their chances of making it into the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-283979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283979","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=283979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}