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NORMAN – For the fifth straight season and 43rd time overall, Oklahoma baseball has been selected to the NCAA postseason.
The Sooners received an at-large bid to the 2026 NCAA Baseball Championship, and will begin postseason play at the Atlanta Regional hosted by Georgia Tech. The 64-team bracket was revealed Monday on ESPN.
Oklahoma, the regional No. 2 seed, will play regional No. 3 seed The Citadel at 4 p.m. CT Friday on ESPN+. Regional host and No. 2 national seed Georgia Tech will face regional four-seed UIC on Friday at 11 a.m. CT on ACCN.
The winner of the Atlanta Regional will face the winner of the Lawrence Regional, which features No. 15 national seed Kansas, Arkansas, Missouri State and Northeastern.
Oklahoma is making its 43rd appearance in an NCAA Regional, fifth straight and sixth under Johnson. OU’s 43 appearances in the NCAA tournament rank eighth in the nation. The Sooners are 101-86 all-time in NCAA tournament games, have appeared in 11 College World Series (including 2022) and won national championships in 1951 and 1994.
OU is 6-1 all-time vs. host Georgia Tech, most recently beating the Yellow Jackets in Atlanta in 2017. Most notably, the Sooners defeated Georgia Tech in the 1994 national championship to win their second title. OU has met The Citadel once in program history, beating the Bulldogs 9-7 in Orlando in 2014. A meeting against UIC would be the first in the history of the two schools.
This is the seventh time in OU’s last nine NCAA tournament appearances that Oklahoma will play a regional at an ACC school. In those six regionals, the Sooners have advanced to Supers twice.
The Sooners are ranked No. 24 in the final NCAA RPI and boast an overall strength of schedule that is ranked sixth in the nation. OU also has six wins against RPI top-25 teams and 10 top-50 wins.
Oklahoma, which has nine wins this season against teams in the NCAA Tournament field, won four SEC conference series in its second season in the league.
Ticket information for the Atlanta Regional can be found via SoonerSports.com/tickets.
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