FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – The No. 12 Nova Southeastern baseball team is ranked sixth in the first NCAA South Regional rankings of the season.
The regional rankings are used to determine which teams have the greatest chance of earning an at large bid to the NCAA South Region Tournament. Three teams, the winners of the Sunshine State Conference regular season title, Gulf South Conference Tournament championship and the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference tournament winner, will receive automatic bids to the tournament. The rest of the tournament field will be filled with the top ranked teams left in the regional rankings.
Unless a team outside of the top-seven ranked squads wins the GSC Tournament, a team must place in the top-seven in the regional rankings to have a chance at a bid into regionals. Pegged sixth, the Sharks are in line to make their second-straight appearance in the NCAA South Regional Tournament.
At the top of the rankings is No. 2 Tampa, a team the Sharks will face on the road May 4-5. Behind Tampa is No. 9 Delta State, the favorite to win the GSC automatic bid, and Lynn, who the Sharks will face this coming weekend at the NSU Baseball Complex.
Two teams from the GSC are tied for fourth in the region, No. 22 North Alabama and No. 25 West Florida. Behind the Sharks is Alabama-Huntsville in seventh. The distance between sixth and seventh is vast, as the Sharks have seven regional losses to the Chargers’ 18. Finishing out the top-10 is Florida Tech, Valdosta State and West Alabama.
The Sharks will have more opportunities than any other team to move up in the regional rankings. The Sharks will play nine more regular-season regional games, at least three more than any other team in the rankings. Of those nine games, six will be against top-three teams.
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