The Old Dominion baseball team wraps up its regular season at the Bud this weekend, starting today (6:05 pm). Long Island comes to Norfolk with a 24-23-1 record and a few nice wins over Illinois State, Yale and North Dakota State and played the Pioneer league leader Bucknell to a tie. ODU will wrap up the 3 game series on Saturday May 17 with a double header (1:05 & 4:00 pm). The team has played very well this year and strived for what will come next. The CUSA tournament starts Wednesday May 21 at Southern Mississippi and the winner of the Tournament will be crowned on Sunday May 24.
ODU has its own fate in its hands, a must win weekend with LIU followed by a good showing in the tournament should get Old Dominion an invite to the NCAA Baseball 64 team playoff. At the present time there are several perditions out for the field of 64. The most recent projected field of 64 from Perfect Game has Old Dominion, Long Beach State, San Diego State and Dallas Baptist as he last four teams in for the postseason field, while Tennessee, Illinois, San Diego and UAB are the first four teams out.. The bracket set forth by PG has Old Dominion going head to head with UCF in GAINESVILLE, Fla.
Bids by conference: SEC (10), ACC (8), Big 12 (6), Pac-12 (4), Missouri Valley (3), American Athletic (3), Big West (3), Mountain West (3), Big Ten (2), Conference USA (3-2). They have Rice CUSA auto, UAB presently in and ODU as potentially as one of the last 4 in.
31 Auto qualifiers only leaves 33 at large bids available and this year has been especially competitive.
CONFERENCE AUTOMATIC BIDS
Atlantic 10: Saint Louis
American Athletic: Louisville
Atlantic Coast: Virginia
America East: Stony Brook
Atlantic Sun: Mercer
Big Ten: Indiana
Big 12: TCU
Big East: Creighton
Big South: Liberty
Big West: UC Irvine
Colonial Athletic: William & Mary
Conference USA: Rice
Horizon: Wright State
Ivy League: Columbia
Metro Atlantic: Canisius
Mid-American: Ball State
Mid-Eastern Athletic: Delaware State
Missouri Valley: Evansville
Mountain West: New Mexico
Northeast: Bryant
Ohio Valley: Southeast Missouri
Pac-12: Oregon State
Patriot: Bucknell
Southeastern: Florida
Southern: Western Carolina
Southland: Sam Houston State
Southwestern Athletic: Alabama State
Summit: Western Illinois
Sun Belt: Louisiana-Lafayette
West Coast: Pepperdine
Western Athletic:SacramentoState
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