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Georgia, Coastal Carolina move up in latest NCAA baseball tournament bracket predictions, by D1Baseball

Texas, Florida State top latest college baseball Power 10 rankings

Editor's note: The following article was published first on d1baseball.com.

We’re at the final stretch of the regular season, and that means it’s time for the latest D1Baseball Field of 64 Projections. Note that we will have weekly projections leading up to selection Monday and daily projection updates during conference tournament week.

In terms of significant changes to the top eight seeds in our projections, there are three changes to the top eight national seeds. Tennessee, Clemson and UC Irvine moved out of the top eight, while Georgia, Auburn and Vanderbilt took those spots. Georgia continues to have the top RPI in college baseball, Auburn has a robust resume and is coming off a road series win over Tennessee and Vanderbilt is coming off a home series win over Alabama.

In terms of the top 16 seeds, there were two notable changes in this week’s projections. UC Irvine dropped out of the top 16 altogether while NC State dropped out after going 0-2 at Miami and seeing its RPI drop to 36 — a 14-spot drop from last week at this time. The two new entrants as hosts include Oregon and Arizona. The Ducks continue to surge in the RPI and now have marquee series wins over UCLA and Oregon State, while Arizona, which is coming off a series win over TCU, has one of the more compelling postseason resumes out there.

Mark Etheridge, Kendall Rogers and Aaron Fitt met in our weekly NerdCast to deliberate the latest field of 64 projections.

Bids by conference: SEC (14), ACC (9), Big 12 (7), Big Ten (4), Sun Belt (3), Big West (2), Big East (2)
Last four in: Kansas State, Kentucky, Iowa, Xavier
First four out: UT Rio Grande Valley, Western Kentucky, Michigan, Notre Dame
Four to watch: Virginia, Virginia Tech, Kennesaw State, Washington

DI Baseball Field of 64 Projections

(* denotes conference automatic qualifier, parentheses indicate national seed)

Austin, TX Tucson, AZ
1. Texas* (1)
2. UTSA*
3. Kansas State
4. Oral Roberts*
1. Arizona (16)
2. Southern California
3. Texas A&M
4. Sacramento State*
Fayetteville, AR   Los Angeles
1. Arkansas (2)
2. Dallas Baptist*
3. Kansas
4. Missouri State*
1. UCLA (15)
2. UC Irvine*
3. Arizona State
4. San Diego*
Tallahassee, FL Corvallis, OR
1. Florida State* (3)
2. Troy
3. Mississippi State
4. Bethune-Cookman*
1. Oregon State (14)
2. Oklahoma
3. UConn*
4. Nevada*
Baton Rouge, LA Eugene, OR
1. LSU (4)
2. Miami
3. SE Louisiana*
4. Central Connecticut*
1. Oregon* (13)
2. TCU
3. Cal Poly
4. Fairfield*
Athens, GA Morgantown, WV
1. Georgia (5)
2. Georgia Tech
3. Northeastern*
4. Tennessee Tech*
1. West Virginia* (12)
2. Duke
3. Kentucky
4. George Mason*
Auburn, AL Conway, SC
1. Auburn (6)
2. Southern Miss
3. Stetson*
4. Bryant*
1. Coastal Carolina* (11)
2. NC State
3. Florida
4. High Point*
Chapel Hill, NC Clemson, SC
1. North Carolina (7)
2. Ole Miss
3. Iowa
4. Holy Cross*
1. Clemson (10)
2. Alabama
3. Cincinnati
4. Wright State*
Nashville, TN Knoxville, TN
1. Vanderbilt (8)
2. Louisville
3. Xavier
4. Yale*
1. Tennessee (9)
2. Wake Forest
3. East Tenn. State*
4. Kent State*

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