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Kentucky baseball to host Ball State, Indiana, West Virginia in NCAA tournament regional

LEXINGTON, Ky. — The Kentucky baseball team is back in the NCAA tournament. And the Wildcats won't have to leave home for the first round.

As the tournament's No. 12 overall seed, UK is one of 16 teams that will host a regional this weekend. The Wildcats will face Ball State on Friday. Indiana and West Virginia are the other two teams in the Lexington Regional.

The winner of Lexington's double-elimination regional will advance to super regional play. If seeding holds, Kentucky will head to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, for Super Regionals, taking on the No.