Fans and teams who are used to the normal format for the NCAA Baseball Tournament will have to readjust, as the NCAA has released changes to the standard preliminary round procedures for the 2021 championships. Home field advantage, once taken for granted throughout college baseball’s playoffs, will be changed for the upcoming postseason.
Due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and the need to certify hosting sites further in advance than in a normal tournament, some reforms will be instituted to this spring’s postseason.
In pre-COVID seasons, the 64 baseball teams that earn NCAA Tournament bids are divided into 16 geographical regions and awarded seeds between No.