AAC Baseball will have two representatives in the 2024 NCAA Tournament, regular season champ ECU and tournament champ Wichita State.
East Carolina
East Carolina was a force throughout the 2024 AAC Baseball season, impressing in nonconference play and following it up with a top finish in the league. Injuries saw them stumble a bit down the stretch, but the Pirates have a shot to make some noise with several of those key players expected to make their return for the NCAA Tournament.
The Pirates will host their regional as the No. 1 seed. Joining them in Greenville is their first opponent, No. 4 Seed Evansville, as well as No. 2 Seed Wake Forest and No. 3 Seed VCU.
This is ECU’s sixth time hosting at Clark-LeClair Stadium and the Pirates’ 34th appearance in the NCAA Tournament. They’ve qualified for regional play eight times in 10 years under head coach Cliff Godwin.
The Greenville Regional is paired with the Knoxville Regional, home of No. 1 National Seed, Tennessee.
Tulane
Tulane secured automatic entrance to the NCAA Tournament field by virtue of their AAC Baseball Tournament championship, their second tournament title in as many seasons after taking home the trophy last season as well. This is Tulane’s 10th conference tournament title and their 23rd appearance in the NCAA Tournament.
The Green Wave are the No. 4 Seed in the Corvallis Regional, home of host Oregon State, the No. 15 overall seed in the tournament. Also in the field are No. 2 Seed UC-Irvine and No. 3 Seed Nicholls.
Tulane has met two of its regional members on the diamond already this year. The Green Wave were swept in New Orleans by UC Irvine and won a pair of midweek games against Nicholls earlier in the season, one at home and one on the road.
The Corvallis Regional is paired with the Lexington Regional, home of No. 2 Seed, Kentucky.
NCAA Tournament Bracket
The bracket is set.
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Elsewhere in the AAC
South Florida has made a coaching change, dismissing Billy Mohl after seven seasons with the Bulls. USF was one of two teams, the other Memphis, who failed to reach the AAC Baseball Tournament, falling in their final game of the season to UAB and ending up on the wrong side of the bubble. USF is the only program to have made a coaching change at this time.
