College baseball's Sweet 16 will square off in eight, best of-three NCAA Baseball Tournament Super Regional series this weekend. The winners will advance to the College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska.
The matchups as determined by regional play from Friday through Monday:
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College of Charleston vs. Texas Tech
Kennesaw State vs. Louisville
Maryland vs. Virginia
Mississippi vs. Louisiana-Lafayette
Oklahoma State vs. UC Irvine
Pepperdine vs. TCU
Stanford vs. Vanderbilt
Texas vs. Houston
The NCAA will announce super regional sites Tuesday.
The College of Charleston became the fourth No. 4 regional seed to reach super regionals since the tournament went to its current format in 1999. Pepperdine and Kennesaw State were seeded third in their regions.
The last two No. 4 regional seeds to get past the first weekend of the tournament made it all the way to the CWS. Fresno State went on to win the national championship in 2008, and Stony Brook captured the imagination of the nation in 2012 when the Seawolves reached the CWS.
College of Charleston has played in a super regional before, losing at Georgia Tech in 2006 as a No. 2 regional seed. The Cougars earned an NCAA tournament bid this year by winning the Colonial Athletic Association. They beat No. 2 national seed Florida on its home field Friday and defeated Long Beach State on Saturday and again Monday.
Kennesaw State, in only its fifth season of Division I eligibility, became the first team since Kansas in 1993 to go beyond regionals in its tournament debut. The Owls of the Atlantic Sun Conference have won 26 of 28 games.
"Well, we won as a NAIA program in '94 and I told the guys today that was huge," 23rd-year Owls coach Mike Sansing said. "In '96 we won a Division II national championship, and that was huge. But I think this is going to put more of a stamp on Kennesaw State baseball. It's been a long process for sure, the reclassification, but it's great to be here today and where we are."
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
