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UCLA earns No. 1 seed for NCAA baseball tournament ahead of offensive juggernaut Georgia Tech
UCLA enters with a 51-6 record and a 3.31 ERA, while Georgia Tech leads Division I in scoring, batting average and slugging.
- UCLA earned the No. 1 seed for the NCAA Tournament after sweeping Big Ten regular-season and tournament titles with a 51-6 record, positioning the Bruins atop the field as regionals begin Friday.
- Ranked atop Baseball America's preseason polls, UCLA features ace Logan Reddeman and closer Ethan Hawk leading a staff with a 3.31 ERA, while three power hitters combined for 57 homers entering regionals since Tennessee had 53 in 2022.
- Georgia Tech swept Atlantic Coast Conference championships and leads Division I with 10.8 runs per game, a.358 batting average, and.636 slugging percentage; the Yellow Jackets open Friday in Atlanta against Illinois-Chicago.
- Winners of Friday's 16 regionals advance to best-of-three super regionals, with top-eight national seeds assured of hosting if they win their regional; super regional victors earn spots at the College World Series in Omaha beginning June 12.
- LSU, the 2025 national champion, failed to make a regional the following year, joining six other programs since 1999; Northern Illinois returned for the first time since 1972 after beating Toledo 5-1 on Saturday to win the Mid-American Conference Tournament.
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UCLA earns No. 1 seed for NCAA baseball tournament ahead of offensive juggernaut Georgia Tech
UCLA is the No. 1 national seed for the NCAA baseball tournament. The Bruins were rewarded for their dominant wire-to-wire run through the regular season.
·United States
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