NCAA Baseball Tournament Preview: Who's Got the Inside Track to Omaha?

As the NCAA baseball tournament regionals get underway this weekend, here's what you need to know about the title favorites, can't-miss players and potential Cinderellas.

You can learn all you need to know about the NCAA baseball tournament from the play that swung last season's College World Series final, with Arkansas one out away from a sweep of eventual champion Oregon State. In short: College baseball will get weird, and it will break your heart.

But if you want the full experience, you need to start on the first weekend of the tournament, when 16 double-elimination regionals across the country produce roughly 14 continuous hours of action for three straight days, the busiest weekend of…