For the fourteenth year in a row, Virginia will hear its name called on Selection Monday as one of 64 teams to make this year’s NCAA Baseball Tournament. That was a certainty given the team’s 42-14 record and lofty RPI. Less clear was whether Davenport Field would host an NCAA Regional for the tenth time in 14 years. On Sunday night, the selection committee released its list of regional hosts, leaving Virginia out despite most in the industry projecting the Hoos would host.
Nobody except the selection committee itself knows the criteria that was used in selecting regional hosts, but it sure seems like RPI was heavily relied upon.