Although the Oklahoma Sooners won't be at home during the NCAA Baseball Championship, there will still be some familiarity.
The Sooners on Monday were announced as the 2-seed in the Chapel Hill Regional of the NCAA baseball tournament along with No. 1 and host North Carolina, No. 3 Nebraska and No. 4 Holy Cross. OU will get old Big 12 foe Nebraska first at 4 p.m. CT Friday.
Oklahoma heads to Chapel Hill Regional with North Carolina, Nebraska, Holy Cross
OU was one of 64 teams selected to the NCAA tournament field after going 35-20 in its first year in the daunting SEC. That SEC slate has the Sooners calloused for postseason play with nine wins against RPI top-25 teams and 13 top-50 wins, including a series win over RPI No. 1 Vanderbilt. The Sooners already have 12 wins over teams in the field.
This will be OU's 42nd appearance in an NCAA regional and fourth season in a row to make it this far. The Sooners made the College World Series final in 2022.
This journey to Omaha for the Sooners will start in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, against Nebraska. There's a storied history in every sport between the two schools, with OU holding a 118-94-1 all-time advantage on the baseball diamond. They most recently met at the start of last season in Arlington and OU won 7-6.
This season, the Cornhuskers went 32-27 while in the Big Ten.
Against the rest of the regional field, the Sooners have met UNC only twice during the 2010 NCAA Norman Regional and won both meetings. OU is also 2-0 against Holy Cross.
The winner of Chapel Hill Regional will play the victor of the Eugene Regional in Super Regionals. That regional includes No. 12 national seed Oregon, Arizona, Utah Valley and Cal Poly. If the Sooners get through regionals, they would travel to Eugene unless Oregon is upset.
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