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This upcoming week will see four college baseball teams battle it out during the Auburn Regional to determine who advances to the NCAA Baseball Tournament. Auburn University will play host to Penn, Samford, and Southern Mississippi from June 2 to 5 at Plainsman Park in Auburn, Alabama.
The hosts enter the Auburn Regional tournament as the 13th seed in the NCAA, and are the favorites to make it out of the qualification round. The first game of the double-elimination tournament will feature top seed Auburn Tigers taking on fourth seed Penn. The winner of the first game will face the winner of No. 2 seed Southern Miss versus No. 3 seed Samford.
The regional tournament will be played in a double-elimination format, as opposed to the single-elimination style of March Madness for example. This means that teams must lose two games before being eliminated.
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The winner of the regional playoff advances to the second round to face the winner of the Clemson Regional, which features Clemson, Tennessee, Charlotte, and Lipscomb.
For fans hoping to watch all of the regional action, the games will be broadcast live on ESPN+. Both ESPN+ and ESPN2 will also broadcast the other regional games across the nation.
Schedule for the NCAA Baseball Auburn Regional Tournament
The double-elimination tournament begins on Friday, June 2, and runs until Monday, June 5 (if necessary). As previously mentioned, Samford is playing in the opening match of the tournament against Southern Miss at 2 pm on ESPN+. Hosts Auburn take on Penn in Friday's second game at 7 pm, which will also air on ESPN+.
The schedule can then get complicated as the tournament is double elimination, which is a format that not everyone may be familiar with.
This marks the 24th time in school history that the Auburn Tigers have appeared in the NCAA tournament, with the prestigious university winning the regional tournament on seven different occasions.
After winning the Sun Belt championship, the Southern Miss Golden Eagles will be looking to make it through the Auburn Regional and advance to the NCAA College World Series for the second time in the school's history, having previously done so in 2009.
