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5/24/2009, 02:42 PM
Four Atlantic Coast Conference schools were selected Sunday as regional hosts for the 2009 NCAA baseball tournament.
No. 4 ranked North Carolina joined conference members Clemson, Florida State and Georgia Tech as ACC hosts. Other conferences with multiple hosts are the Big 12 (Oklahoma, *Texas*), Big West (Cal State Fullerton, UC Irvine), Conference USA (East Carolina, Rice) and SEC (Florida, LSU, Ole Miss).
The road to Omaha begins with regional play at the following sites/hosts:
• Atlanta/Georgia Tech
• Austin, *Texas*/*Texas*
• Baton Rouge, La./LSU
• Chapel Hill, N.C./UNC
• Clemson, S.C./Clemson
• Fort Worth, *Texas*/TCU
• Fullerton, Calif./Cal State Fullerton
• Gainesville, Fla./Florida
• Greenville, N.C./East Carolina
• Houston/Rice
• Irvine, Calif./UC-Irvine
• Louisville, Ky./Louisville
• Norman, Okla./Oklahoma
• Oxford, Miss./Ole Miss
• Tallahassee, Fla./Florida State
• Tempe, Ariz./Arizona State
Each of the 16 host schools are guaranteed berths in the 64-team tournament, which starts Friday. The complete pairings for the 2009 field will be announced during Monday's The Road to Omaha selection show (ESPN, 12:30 p.m. ET).
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=4202816
No. 4 ranked North Carolina joined conference members Clemson, Florida State and Georgia Tech as ACC hosts. Other conferences with multiple hosts are the Big 12 (Oklahoma, *Texas*), Big West (Cal State Fullerton, UC Irvine), Conference USA (East Carolina, Rice) and SEC (Florida, LSU, Ole Miss).
The road to Omaha begins with regional play at the following sites/hosts:
• Atlanta/Georgia Tech
• Austin, *Texas*/*Texas*
• Baton Rouge, La./LSU
• Chapel Hill, N.C./UNC
• Clemson, S.C./Clemson
• Fort Worth, *Texas*/TCU
• Fullerton, Calif./Cal State Fullerton
• Gainesville, Fla./Florida
• Greenville, N.C./East Carolina
• Houston/Rice
• Irvine, Calif./UC-Irvine
• Louisville, Ky./Louisville
• Norman, Okla./Oklahoma
• Oxford, Miss./Ole Miss
• Tallahassee, Fla./Florida State
• Tempe, Ariz./Arizona State
Each of the 16 host schools are guaranteed berths in the 64-team tournament, which starts Friday. The complete pairings for the 2009 field will be announced during Monday's The Road to Omaha selection show (ESPN, 12:30 p.m. ET).
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=4202816