April 23, 2025

Griffin’s group “under consideration” in NCAA’s first region rankings

In the first edition of the NCAA's baseball region rankings, No. 17 Carson-Newman (33-14) found itself listed amongst ten teams in alphabetical order in the Southeast Region as announced by the NCAA on Wednesday evening.

INDIANAPOLIS- In the first edition of the NCAA's baseball region rankings, No. 17 Carson-Newman (33-14) found itself listed amongst ten teams in alphabetical order in the Southeast Region as announced by the NCAA on Wednesday evening.

Carson-Newman is one of four South Atlantic Conference schools listed in the region rankings, joined by Catawba, Coker, and Lenoir-Rhyne.

The Peach Belt is represented by just one school, North Georgia. Conference Carolinas makes up the other five teams ranked in the region. Belmont Abbey, Mount Olive, North Greenville, UNC Pembroke and Young Harris

Among the teams listed under consideration, C-N has played ten games against those teams and is 4-6.

The Eagles are tied for the fourth-best RPI at .573 with Young Harris. C-N has played the sixth toughest schedule in the Southeast region and is 30-14 in those contests. Based on the DII performance indicator, Carson-Newman ranks fourth-best in the region.

The selection committee uses these rankings as a guideline to make up the NCAA Tournament field. The top eight teams in the region make the NCAA Tournament with three automatic bids going to the winners of the conference tournaments from the South Atlantic Conference, Conference Carolinas and the Peach Belt Conference. The other five spots will consist of at-large bids.

The top two seeds will host the Southeast Region opening round tournament. The team that wins the Southeast Regional tournament qualifies for the DII College World Series in Cary, North Carolina May 30th to June 7th.

The NCAA will release region rankings every Wednesday leading up to the selection show on Sunday, May 11th at 10:30 p.m. eastern time.

No. 17 Carson-Newman concludes the regular season this weekend with Mars Hill. The three-game home weekend series is scheduled to begin on Friday at 3:00 p.m. All games will air with a video stream available on FloSports with a subscription. There will also be a free audio stream available courtesy of the Eagle Sports Network on cneagles.com/live.