No. 10 seed Florida State will begin its NCAA Tournament run on Friday, hosting the Tallahassee regional as it welcomes No. 2 seed Coastal Carolina, third-seeded Northern Illinois and No. 4-seed St. John\u2019s.<\/p>\n
The Seminoles open play against the Red Storm at 3 p.m. (ACC Network) and will be starting Bryson Moore on the mound.<\/p>\n
FSU enters the postseason holding a 38-17 (19-11 ACC) record, hosting a regional for the third season in a row and 38th time overall. Per FSU Sports Info, the Seminoles have swept back-to-back regionals (2024 and 2025) and have won eight consecutive home games in the postseason. As a team, Florida State is hitting .282 with 519 hits, 72 home runs, 105 doubles, 10 triples, 264 walks, 395 runs scored and 351 RBI. The pitching staff has a 4.05 ERA with 211 earned runs allowed on 394 hits with 580 strikeouts and 203 walks in 469.1 innings.<\/p>\n
No. 2 seed Coastal Carolina (37-21), last year\u2019s national runners-up, enters the tournament averaging .269 at the plate with an ERA of 5.08. Florida State is 13-1 all-time against Coastal Carolina, all in Tallahassee, including 1-0 in the postseason, with the Chanticleers\u2019 sole victory coming in the program\u2019s last meeting (2015) to avoid a sweep.<\/p>\n
No. 3 Northern Illinois (35-17) is making its second-ever NCAA Tournament appearance and first in 44 years, earning a bid after winning the MAC. The Huskies\u2019 batting average is .279 with an ERA of 5.65. The Seminoles have faced off against Northern Illinois just once before this weekend, a 7-1 victory in Tallahassee on April 8, 1971.<\/p>\n
No. 4 St. John\u2019s (33-24) enters the regional as the Big East champion, hitting .279 with a 5.37 ERA. FSU is 2-1 vs. St. John\u2019s, with the only previous meeting a three-game series from March 4-6, 2016.<\/p>\n
Northern Illinois and Coastal Carolina will be facing off for the first time ever, while St. John\u2019s and Coastal Carolina have met seven times, with the Chanticleers leading the all-time series 4-3. The Red Storm are 1-0 vs. Northern Illinois all-time.<\/p>\n
2026 Tallahassee Regional: Schedule<\/p>\n
Game 1: No. 1 Florida State vs. No. 4 St. John\u2019s<\/p>\n
Game 2: No. 2 Coastal Carolina vs. No. 3 Northern Illinois<\/p>\n
Game 3: Loser Game 1 vs. Loser Game 2<\/p>\n
Game 4: Winner Game 1 vs. Winner Game 2<\/p>\n
Game 5: Winner Game 3 vs. Loser Game 4<\/p>\n
Game 6: Winner Game 4 vs. Winner Game 5<\/p>\n
Game 7: Winner Game 6 vs. Loser Game 6 (if necessary)<\/p>\n
Game notes, via FSU Sports Info<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No. 10 seed Florida State will begin its NCAA Tournament run on Friday, hosting the Tallahassee regional as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[71160,232,234,233],"class_list":["post-288920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-florida-state-baseball","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288920","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=288920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}