AAC Baseball will have two representatives in the 2025 NCAA Tournament, regular season champ UTSA and tournament champ East Carolina.
East Carolina
For the fourth time in program history, East Carolina won the AAC Tournament Championship, taking down Tulane in the championship game. The Green Wave had won the last two tournament titles. ECU won the season before that in 2022, as well as in 2015 and 2018.
The Pirates had a relatively down season by their standards in league play, finishing 13-14 in the regular season before making their run through the field in Clearwater. They went undefeated during the tournament, beating Charlotte, South Florida (twice) and Tulane.
The Pirates will be the No. 3 seed in the Conway regional. Joining them there will be their first opponent, No. 2 Seed Florida, as well as No. 4 Seed Fairfield and host, No. 1 Seed Coastal Carolina.
This is ECU’s 21st appearance in the NCAA Tournament in the past 26 seasons. ECU went 1-2 against Coastal Carolina in the regular season and did not play Florida or Fairfield.
The Conway Regional is paired with the Auburn Regional, home of No. 4 National Seed, Auburn.
UTSA
The Roadrunners won the regular season championship, proving enough along the way to earn an at-large berth in the NCAA Tournament. This is UTSA’s first regional appearance via an at-large selection with their previous two appearances as conference tournament champions.
UTSA is the No. 2 Seed in the Austin Regional, home of host Texas, the No. 2 national seed in the tournament. Also in the region are No. 3 Seed Kansas State, whom the Roadrunners will face in their opening game, and No. 4 Seed Houston Christian.
UTSA has met two of its regional members on the diamond already this year. The Roadrunners beat Texas 8-7, in Austin, and defeated Houston Christian, 12-1.
The Austin Regional is paired with the Los Angeles Regional, home of No. 15 National Seed, UCLA.
NCAA Tournament Bracket
