NCAA baseball tournament field revealed: UCLA earns No. 1 seed; SEC claims 5 of top 8

UCLA earned the No. 1 overall seed in the 64-team NCAA baseball tournament after posting a program-record 48 regular-season wins and claiming the Big Ten tournament title. The SEC dominated the seedings with 12 teams in the field, including five of the top eight seeds, with Georgia Tech (No. 2) and Georgia (No. 3) among the national seeds. Notably absent are defending national champion LSU and Vanderbilt, which had made the tournament in 19 consecutive seasons.