Florida Gators will host a Regional at Condron Ballpark
The Florida Gators will be staying home for the start of the NCAA Tournament. Sunday night the 16 regional sites were announced and Gainesville was on the list.
The 2023 campaign marks Florida’s third-straight season hosting an NCAA Regional including the 13th overall under Head Coach Kevin O’Sullivan out of a possible 15 seasons. In total, this will be the 19th NCAA Gainesville Regional hosted in program history.
Florida enters the NCAA Tournament as the SEC Regular Season Co-Champions after playing to a 20-10 record in conference play. The Gators’ 42 regular season wins marked the second-most in team history. Following a 2-1 record in Hoover that featured a trip to the SEC Tournament Semifinals, the Orange & Blue are 44-14 on the season and ranked as highly as No. 2 nationally.
Being a Regional host means the Gators will get to host three other schools this weekend. Florida is likely to be a National Seed as well. The top eight teams in the country are National Seeds. That means they would be the host school for a Regional and a Super Regional should they advance. Florida has not advanced past the Regional round since 2018 when they went to the College World Series. The last time Florida made the tournament but was not a host was in 2019 when they were sent to the Lubbock Regional hosted by Texas Tech.
64 total teams will be selected for the NCAA Tournament on May 29, with the 16 teams chosen as host schools welcoming three visiting teams to each site. Four teams will compete across each of those 16 NCAA Regional sites to determine which 16 programs will advance to NCAA Super Regionals, scheduled for June 9-12.
Gators résumé
Florida has one of the best résumés in the country. The No. 2 team, according to D1Baseball, Florida complied a 44-14 record, including a 22-11 record against SEC opponents (including the SEC Tournament).
The Gators shared a conference title with Arkansas and have the No. 4 RPI in the country.
Florida has a stellar 30-6 record when playing at Condron Family Ballpark.
16 Regional host sites
(Regional sites are listed alphabetically, not in order of seed)
Auburn, Alabama (Auburn)
Baton Rouge, Louisiana (LSU)
Charlottesville, Virginia (Virginia)
Clemson, South Carolina (Clemson)
Columbia, South Carolina (South Carolina)
Conway, South Carolina (Coastal Carolina)
Coral Gables, Florida (Miami)
Fayetteville, Arkansas (Arkansas)
Gainesville, Florida (Florida)
Lexington, Kentucky (Kentucky)
Nashville, Tennessee (Vanderbilt)
Palo Alto, California (Stanford)
Stillwater, Oklahoma (Oklahoma State)
Terre Haute, Indiana (Indiana State)
Tuscaloosa, Alabama (Alabama)
Winston-Salem, North Carolina (Wake Forest)
