2018 NCAA Baseball Tournament bracket, regional matchups: What to know to know about the road to Omaha

On Monday, the selection committee announced the field of 64 for the 2018 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament. Before we unveil the bracket, let's run down a few of the essentials ... 

• The field includes 31 automatic bids via conference championships and 33 at-large entrants. The first round of play is known as the regional, and it's a round-robin, double-elimination format. Each of the top 16 overall seeds hosts its respective regional, when possible.
• The winner of each regional advances to the super regional. The super regional is a best-of-three series format.
• The winner of each super regional -- eight teams in all -- advances to the College World Series in Omaha.
• The College World Series is a double-elimination format until the final two teams are left standing. At that point, it's a best-of-three series to determine the national champion.
• The field of 64 also includes eight national national seeds, which you may consider the pre-tourney favorites to reach Omaha. Here they are, ranked in order ...

1. Florida
2. Stanford
3. Oregon State
4. Ole Miss
5. Arkansas
6. North Carolina
7. Florida State
8. Georgia

If a national seed wins its region, then it hosts the super regional. Otherwise, the sites of the super regionals will be announced after the regional round concludes.)

Now here are the matchups for all 16 regionals (each region is seeded one through four) ... 

Athens Regional

1. Georgia
2. Duke
3. Troy
4. Campbell

Austin Regional

1. Texas
2. Indiana
3. Texas A&M
4. Texas Southern

Chapel Hill Regional

1. North Carolina
2. Purdue
3. Houston
4. North Carolina A&T

Clemson Regional

1. Clemson
2. Vanderbilt
3. St. John's
4. Morehead State

Corvallis Regional

1. Oregon State
2. LSU
3. San Diego State
4. Northwestern State

Conway Regional

1. Coastal Carolina
2. UConn
3. Washington
4. LIU-Brooklyn

DeLand Regional

1. Stetson
2. South Florida
3. Oklahoma State
4. Hartford

Fayetteville Regional

1. Arkansas
2. Southern Mississippi
3. Dallas Baptist
4. Oral Roberts

Gainesville Regional

1. Florida
2. Jacksonville
3. Florida Atlantic
4. Columbia

Greenville Regional

1. East Carolina
2. South Carolina
3. Ohio State
4. UNC-Wilmington 

Lubbock Regional

1. Texas Tech
2. Louisville
3. Kent State
4. New Mexico State

Minneapolis Regional

1. Minnesota
2. UCLA
3. Gonzaga
4. Canisius

Oxford Regional

1. Ole Miss
2. Tennessee Tech
3. Missouri State
4. St. Louis

Raleigh Regional

1. NC State
2. Auburn
3. Northeastern
4. Army

Stanford Regional

1. Stanford
2. Baylor
3. Cal State Fullerton
4. Wright State

Tallahassee Regional

1. Florida State
2. Mississippi State
3. Oklahoma
4. Samford

And here's a link to NCAA.com's interactive bracket, which includes region-to-region pairings. 

Now for some dates to know ... 

• Regional play gets underway on Friday, June 1 and runs through Monday, June 4.
  
• The Super Regionals will run from from June 8 through June 11. 
•  The College World Series in Omaha will begin on June 16 and last until June 26 or 27. 
  

Now let's light this candle. 

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