Baseball Extend Record NCAA Postseason Streak

CORAL GABLES, Fla. — The Miami Hurricanes earned a berth to the 2013 NCAA Division I Baseball Championship Monday, marking the program’s NCAA record-tying 41st consecutive trip to the postseason.

With their selection to the Louisville Regional, the Hurricanes have extended their collegiate baseball record to 41 straight years in the postseason.

Second-seeded Miami (36-23) will join host and first-seeded Louisville (46-12), third-seeded Oklahoma State (39-17) and fourth-seeded Bowling Green (24-29) for the first round of the postseason. The Hurricanes own an all-time record of 116-41 (.739) in the Regional round, but finished 0-2 in the Coral Gables Regional in 2012.

The Hurricanes own an all-time record of 18-5 against their opponents in their field, including a flawless 13-0 series advantage over Bowling Green. Miami leads Oklahoma State by a narrow 4-3 margin in the all-time series, while Louisville has taken two of three head-to-head contests.

ACC competitors Florida State (Tallahassee, Fla.), North Carolina  (Chapel Hill, N.C.), North Carolina State (Raleigh, N.C.), Virginia (Charlottesville, Va.) and Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, Va.) were among the 16 hosts announced on Sunday.  Overall, eight teams from the ACC were selected among the field of 64 – the second-most of any conference nationwide.

NCAA Regionals, which will consist of four-team double-elimination tournaments at 16 campus sites, will get under way Friday (May 31) and run through Monday (June 3) as necessary. The eight regional winners will advance to Super Regional play, again at campus sites, June 7-10. Those eight winners will then move on the 67th Men’s College World Series, set for June 15-25/26 at Omaha, Neb.