Now that the 16 host sites have been announced and the automatic bids have been handed out, here's a final look at the field. The last pick was down to Troy and Cal State Bakersfield -- the combination of Arkansas-Little Rock winning the Sun Belt title (bumping a bubble team) and a fourth Western regional gave the nod to Bakersfield.
| Gainesville Regional No. 1 Florida Miami Jacksonville Bethune-Cookman |
Tallahassee Regional Florida State Florida International Alabama Alcorn State |
| Tempe Regional No. 8 Arizona State UC Irvine Kansas State New Mexico |
Los Angeles Regional Fresno State UCLA Cal State Bakersfield San Francisco |
| Chapel Hill Regional No. 5 North Carolina East Carolina Seton Hall Charlotte |
Corvallis Regional Oregon State Connecticut Creighton Wright State |
| Columbia Regional No. 4 South Carolina Stetson NC State Sacred Heart |
Clemson Regional Clemson UCF Coastal Carolina Austin Peay |
| Nashville Regional No. 3 Vanderbilt Southern Miss California Belmont |
Atlanta Regional Georgia Tech Georgia Georgia Southern Manhattan |
| Austin Regional No. 6 Texas Arkansas Texas State Illinois |
Fort Worth Regional TCU Oklahoma Dallas Baptist Oral Roberts |
| College Station Regional No. 7 Texas A&M Arizona Mississippi State Arkansas-Little Rock |
Houston Regional Rice Baylor LSU Princeton |
| Charlottesville Regional No. 2 Virginia Oklahoma State James Madison Maine |
Fullerton Regional Cal State Fullerton Stanford Kent State Navy |
Last five in: LSU, Mississippi State, Jacksonville, Dallas Baptist, Cal State Bakersfield
First nine out: Troy, Elon, Hawaii, Mercer, Texas Tech, Ole Miss, Oregon, Southeastern Louisiana, Wichita State
Jeremy Mills is a researcher for ESPN and is a contributor to ESPN.com's college baseball coverage.
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Jeremy Mills
Jeremy Mills joined ESPN in September 2006 as a member of the Stats & Information team. During the day, he ensures that the scores and statistics reported by ESPN are correct; at night, he scours the world of college baseball for interesting and/or obscure happenings.
Mills' love of college baseball started while attending Rice University (honestly, what other sport was there to follow?). Before joining ESPN, he created a college baseball website to provide scores and standings for all Division I teams.
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