College World Series 2018 preview: Oregon State Beavers pave the way

Here’s how each NCAA Baseball College World Series team made it to Omaha.

If you’re new to NCAA Baseball and the College World Series, here’s the format they’ve used since 1999. There have been talks of tweaking the setup a bit, but why fix what’s not broken?!

The system is perfect and rewards teams who win their first game of each respective round — which is how it should be.

NCAA Baseball Regional Round (64 teams)

• 64 teams –16 Regional sites
• Seeded 1-4 (16 one seeds, 16 two seeds, etc.)
• Regional Round: Double elimination
• Hosted by the one seed.

NCAA Super Regionals Round (16 teams)

• Winners of the Regionals are paired up in a best of three “Super Regionals” series. The highest seed of the two host. If two one-seeds advance, the team with the National seed designations hosts.

College World Series (Eight Teams) Location: Omaha, Nebraska — TD Ameritrade Park.  (neutral site)

• The eight winners of their respective Super Regionals matchup
• There are two sides of the bracket — set up much like the Regional Round
• It’s nearly identical to the NCAA Baseball Regionals with four teams in each side of the bracket.
• Double-elimination format
• The winner of each four-team bracket then advances to the College World Series finals.
• The NCAA Baseball College World Series title game is a best two out of three series.