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NCAA TOURNAMENT: NC State Headed To Auburn

NC State has been tabbed the No. 3 seed in the Auburn Regional with No. 1 seed Auburn, No. 2 seed UCF, and No. 4 seed Milwaukee in the 2026 NCAA Baseball Championship Tournament.
By James Henderson
May 25, 2026
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NC State has been tabbed the No. 3 seed in the Auburn Regional with No. 1 seed Auburn, No. 2 seed UCF, and No. 4 seed Milwaukee in the 2026 NCAA Baseball Championship Tournament.

Stay tuned for more shortly on NC State baseball!

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Auburn regional 2 years in a row.
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It's winnable.

D1 Baseball projections are way off.
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Glad Avent gets to go out with a tournament. He deserves it.
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Well I'll be damned
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Always good to be able to keep playing baseball. Congrats to the team, let's make some noise for coach Avent!
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UCF as the 2 is about as good as State could ask for to make a regional final.
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We are owed this bid after the screw jobs in 2021 and 2022. We still aren't even either.
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Game times been announced yet?
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Baseball America weeps.
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Game times been announced yet?


Trying to schedule your next "season's over" post?
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Does the committee release the actual seed list? Curious as to where State landed bubble-wise.
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We are in a winnable regional. Location and matchups is more like a safely in 3 seed not the last team on the board.
On top of that ESPNU at 6PM on Friday, decent game time for folks to watch.
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Committee is really leaning into the out of conference rivalry matchups. I dig it.

Best tournament in college sports.
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In reply to PackPA2015 • 12:27p
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Does the committee release the actual seed list? Curious as to where State landed bubble-wise.

I think the top 16 only. Maybe the top 32
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In reply to Alex Gee • 12:28p
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Committee is really leaning into the out of conference rivalry matchups. I dig it.

Best tournament in college sports.


Oregon/Oregon State will be appointment television.
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Auburn gets the No. 4 national seed, over North Carolina. When we looked at the records vs. regional hosts last night, we also gave Auburn the nod. UCF is the 2 seed (we had them as a 3 also), NC State gets in as the 3, in Elliott Avent's final ride. Milwaukee is the 4 seed.

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Smart move to announce the retirement prior to selection day. You can't tell me that didn't help our cause.
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Committee is really leaning into the out of conference rivalry matchups. I dig it.

Best tournament in college sports.

Behind wrestling yes.
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Slobbering_Wolf said:
Game times been announced yet?


Trying to schedule your next "season's over" post?


If we trot Heath out there game 1, I'll have it in the drafts lol
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Supers Matchups:
Los ngeles vs. Morgantown
Atlanta vs. Lawrence
Athens vs. Starkville
Auburn vs. Lincoln
Chapel Hill vs. College Station
Austin vs. Eugene
Tuscaloosa vs. Tallahassee
Gainesville vs. Hattiesburg

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Game times been announced yet?

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We are in a winnable regional. Location and matchups is more like a safely in 3 seed not the last team on the board.
On top of that ESPNU at 6PM on Friday, decent game time for folks to watch.

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Baseball America weeps.


It's not like we were shoo ins or anything but the Baseball America take reminded me of some Bowl projections that have us in the same Bowl we were in last year against someone we played already. Kind of a poor effort. I think they had Pitt in
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Avent retirement timing like a sac fly to get in the tournament lol! Now go on a run for him...
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Alex Gee said:
Slobbering_Wolf said:
Game times been announced yet?


Trying to schedule your next "season's over" post?


If we trot Heath out there game 1, I'll have it in the drafts lol


Interesting decision to make between Cooper and Heath for Friday. Have to keep Nance for Saturday. I would probably lean Heath Friday.
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Not even one of the "Last 4 In"
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In reply to ICW Wolf • 12:56p
ICW Wolf said:
Slobbering_Wolf said:
Alex Gee said:
Slobbering_Wolf said:
Game times been announced yet?


Trying to schedule your next "season's over" post?


If we trot Heath out there game 1, I'll have it in the drafts lol


Interesting decision to make between Cooper and Heath for Friday. Have to keep Nance for Saturday. I would probably lean Heath Friday.


You cannot send Heath out there. Anyone else. Bring Heath out of the pen in need be.
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Borowolf10 said:
ICW Wolf said:
Slobbering_Wolf said:
Alex Gee said:
Slobbering_Wolf said:
Game times been announced yet?


Trying to schedule your next "season's over" post?


If we trot Heath out there game 1, I'll have it in the drafts lol


Interesting decision to make between Cooper and Heath for Friday. Have to keep Nance for Saturday. I would probably lean Heath Friday.


You cannot send Heath out there. Anyone else. Bring Heath out of the pen in need be.
you have to have 3 starters. Heath is undoubtedly 1 of those 3. I mean that is why this team is where it is. The pitching staff isn't up to par. To me I would rather have Heath against UCF than Auburn. I prefer Cooper against Auburn in a potential Sunday matchup. I think Heath has a good chance of handling UCF for 5 or 6 innings. The real question is where do you go after that to get the last 12 outs.
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Well - one last chance for it to come together is about all we could ask for. Hopefully playing for Coach Avent, the boys are inspired, fired up, and aggressive this week!!! Let's do this!
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