Texas A&M earned a No. 12 national seed in the NCAA baseball tournament and will host a Texas-flavored regional.
The Aggies (39-14) will open on Friday against Lamar (34-25) at 3 p.m. on Friday. The game will be televised on the SEC Network.
Texas State (36-24) will face USC (43-15) in the other game at 8 p.m. on Friday and will be streamed on ESPN+.
The winner of the double-elimination regional will face the winner of the Chapel Hill regional, which features North Carolina, Viriginia Commonwealth, East Carolina and Tennessee.
Texas A&M, which missed last year’s tournament, had been hopeful of a top-eight seed and the chance to host a super regional but an early exit in the SEC tournament against Auburn ended.
The Aggies, one of 12 SEC schools in the tournament, could still host a super regional if they win their regional and North Carolina is upset in its.
Lamar earned its spot in the field by winning its first Southland Conference tournament title since 2010. Lamar had finished second in the regular season.
Texas State was an at-large selection and one of five teams from the Sun Belt Conference in the field.