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Hogs facing strong regional field starting Friday
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Arkansas drew the No. 3 overall seed for the NCAA Tournament field, announced Monday morning. Going farther will require going through a couple of pretty good teams to reach a Super Regional.
TCU, the Big 12 champion, will be in Fayetteville as the No. 2 seed and Arizona out of the Pac 12 is ranked No. 3. Santa Clara will be the other team coming to town. It’s a double-elimination Regional, which begins on Friday afternoon at Baum-Walker Stadium.
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— Arkansas Baseball (@RazorbackBSB) May 29, 2023
It is the 19th appearance in 20 seasons under Razorbacks coach Dave Van Horn. The Hogs have also earned a top-eight national seed for the sixth time, a feat they accomplished in 2004, 2007, 2018, 2019 and 2021.
If the Razorbacks were to win the Fayetteville Regional and advance in the NCAA Tournament, they would face the winner of the Terre Haute Regional, which is hosted by No. 14 Indiana State. Iowa (2-seed), North Carolina (3-seed) and Wright State (4-seed) make up the rest of the Regional.
A game time and full broadcast details are expected to be announced later today. All NCAA Tournament games will be streamed on ESPN+ and you can hear Phil Elson and Bubba Carpenter on ESPN Arkansas 95.3 in the River Valley, 96.3 in Hot Springs and 104.3 in Harrison-Mountain Home..
Hogs officially set to host NCAA Rregionals this week
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Baum-Walker Stadium has been selected as one of 16 NCAA regional sites for the 10th time in program history, but we won’t know who the other three teams coming to the party until the selection show on ESPN2 at 11 a.m. Monday. It was not a surprise to anybody.
It will be a double-elimination format and all the regionals are scheduled to be Friday-Monday. All of that depends on the always-unpredictable weather this time of the year. As of Sunday night, weather forecasts for Northwest Arkansas have a 40-50% chance of rain and thunderstorms until Monday. They could be dodging the weather all weekend.
“there may be some great places, and I’m sure there might be a couple that are just as good or close, but I don’t see how,” Razorbacks coach Dave Van Horn said on the SEC Network last week about Baum-Walker. “It’s unbelievable, the atmosphere.”
Arkansas is one of a record eight SEC teams that will host a regional, along with Alabama, Auburn, Florida, Kentucky, LSU, South Carolina and Vanderbilt.
“If people are paying attention to the whole season in baseball, we should have eight hosts,” SEC commissioner Greg Sankey said Saturday on television during the SEC Tournament in Hoover, Ala. “That’s actually good for college baseball. You look at what you experience at our stadiums — they’re full, it’s exciting, they’re passionate. Win or lose, I think teams want to play in those environments.”
The full tournament selections and pairings will be announced on the NCAA Baseball selection show on ESPN2 at 11 a.m. Monday, May 29. A full release will be distributed and posted on NCAA.com before the show ends at 11:30 a.m.
The Hogs will have to win that to host a Super Regional the next week for the right to go to Omaha for the College World Series … which is the goal for everybody now.
Information from Arkansas Communications is included in this story.
Hogs’ rally comes up short against Texas A&M in semifinal
Arkansas won’t be playing for the SEC Tournament title on Sunday after a ninth-inning desperation rally came up short against Texas A&M in a 5-4 semifinal loss in Hoover, Ala.
It wasn’t a particularly sharp game for the Razorbacks, who were trying to beat the Aggies for the fifth time in a month. A&M simply has been improving rapidly over the last month of the season and the Hogs’ pitching staff struggled.
Starter Brady Tygart wasn’t particularly sharp, going 3.1 innings, giving up a run on three hits, walking a couple, hitting a batter and giving up two doubles. He wasn’t the only Hogs’ pitcher that couldn’t get things together on the mound,
The Hogs used six pitchers. Will McEntire, Gage Wood, Parker Coil, Christian Foutch and Austin Ledbetter all had their problems. If Dave Van Horn had managed to pull out a win here, your guess is as good as anybody else who was going to be on the mound for Sunday, but now that won’t really matter.
The Razorbacks are solidly in a host spot for and NCAA Regional next week and the fans started lining up outside Baum-Walker Stadium for HogPen tickets on Thursday night. No, seriously, the line was forming for the chaotic rush to the outfield seats when games start Friday.
Teams, game times and that information won’t be announced until Monday. Van Horn is probably just glad to get some time to slow down and re-group for the tournament that matters with a goal of getting to Omaha at the top of the agenda.
Texas A&M scored a single run in the fourth inning. There was no more scoring until the sixth inning when three runs crossed the plate on free passes that ultimately provided an edge the Hogs couldn’t overcome along with a single run in the eighth for a 5-2 lead.
The Hogs got three runs in the ninth, but couldn’t get the last outs and the game ended with two on base, including the tying run in scoring position. The Razorbacks left nine runs on base in the game while getting 10 hits, but they couldn’t get the key runs across when they could have added a run.
Arkansas is now 41-16 on the season and likely guaranteed a host spot for an NCAA Regional next week with a Super Regional host spot the next week.
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Former Razorbacks pitcher Scott Tabor after win over LSU
Pitching staff starting to come together well for Hogs at just right time heading into NCAA Tournament next week.
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