Beavers No. 3 seed as NCAA baseball tourney field announced

The Oregon State baseball team will enter the NCAA tournament as the No. 3 national seed, as announced by the NCAA when it released the full 64-team field on Monday.

The Beavers (44-10-1) will host No. 2 LSU (37-25), No. 3 San Diego State (39-19) and No. 4 Northwestern State (37-22) to the Corvallis Regional, which starts Friday.

Defending national champion Florida is the No. 1 seed, making the Gators the first program to be a top seed three times.

Play begins Friday in 16 regionals. Winners advance to eight best-of-three super regionals. Those winners move on to the College World Series in Omaha.

The NCAA seeded 16 teams for the first time. There had been eight seeds previously.

Stanford is the No. 2 seed, followed by Oregon State, Mississippi, Arkansas, North Carolina, Florida State and Georgia.

Seeds nine through 16 are Texas Tech, Clemson, Stetson, East Carolina, Texas, Minnesota, Coastal Carolina and North Carolina State.

Florida State, at 41 appearances in a row, has the longest active streak of appearances.

The Washington Huskies (30-23) will play in the Conway, S.C. Regional hosted by Coastal Carolina. The third-seeded Huskies will face the UConn Huskies (35-20-1) on Friday. The other teams in the regional include host Coastal Carolina (42-17), the No. 15 overall seed, and LIU Brooklyn (31-24). Both Coastal Carolina and LIU Brooklyn are coming off winning their conference tournaments.

West Coast Conference champion Gonzaga (32-22) is headed to Minneapolis to face UCLA (36-19) on Friday. No. 1 regional seed Minnesota (41-13), who won both the Big Ten regular season and tournament titles, will face the No. 4 seed Canisius (35-20), winners of the MAAC championship, in the other regional contest on Friday.