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Auburn baseball projected as #2 postseason seed

Ahead of opening day, D1Baseball.com put out there final Preseason Field of 64 projection

Lindsay Crosby

Auburn baseball projected as #2 postseason seed
Auburn baseball projected as #2 postseason seed /

College baseball is finally here - Auburn baseball kicks off their season this Friday.ย 

Now that spring practice is complete, postseason projections are starting to come out. D1Baseball.com, the preeminent outlet covering college baseball as a sport, has released their final preseason projections for the Field of 64ย ($).

They have the SEC receiving a record 11 tournament bids, with LSU (#1 overall), Tennessee (2), Ole Miss (5), Texas A&M (6), Florida (8), Arkansas (9), and Vanderbilt (11) receiving #1 seeds. The advantage of being a #1 seed, obviously, is the opportunity to host a home Regional. Additionally, any #1 seed in the top eight is guaranteed to host a Super Regional at home were they to advance.ย 

Following the SEC is the ACC with ten bids, the Big 12 and Pac 12 with five teams, the Sunbelt with four, and the Big Ten, American, and Conference USA with two. Of Auburn's non-conference slate, Georgia Tech and SE Missouri State

Joining those seven schools are Mississippi State as a #2 seed (at the Winston-Salem regional, hosted by #4 overall Wake Forest), #2 seed Auburn (hosted by #7 overall seed Oklahoma State in Stillwater), #2 South Carolina (at the Chapel Hill regional, hosted by #12 North Carolina), and #2 seed Alabama (in Blacksburg, hosted by #14 Virginia Tech).ย Missing from the Field of 64 from the SEC is Georgia, Missouri, and Kentucky.

Rounding out the Stillwater regional for Auburn is #3 seed Iowa and #4 seed Ball State, setting up a first round matchup for Auburn hosting Iowa and playing the winner of Oklahoma State vs Ball State.ย 

Auburn baseball has made the postseason four times under Butch Thompson, advancing to the College World Series twice. Only one of those was as a #1 seed in the postseason, in 2022.ย ย 

Auburn opens the 2023 season on Friday, February 17th with a three-game series against Big Ten foe Indiana. Season tickets sold out for the third straight season, but limited single-game tickets and mini plan options remain. Visit to check available inventory. The game will be available for streaming on ESPN+, and the radio call with Voice of the Auburn Tigers Andy Burcham and Brad Law can be heard on AuburnTigers.com or locally on 93.9 FM..

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Lindsay Crosby
LINDSAY CROSBY

Senior Writer, covering Auburn Tigers baseball Also: Host of Locked on MLB Prospects (on twitter atย @LockedOnFarm), Managing Editor ofย @Braves_Today, member of the National College Baseball Writers Association and the Internet Baseball Writers Association of America

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