Baseball | May 30, 2016

CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. – The Boston College baseball team is NCAA Tournament bound, as the Eagles earned an at-large bid to play in the field of 64 in the Oxford Regional beginning on Friday, June 3. It is the 11th time BC has made the NCAA Tournament and the first since 2009.
 
BC (31-20) earned the No. 3 seed and will take on No. 2 seed Tulane (39-19) at 4 p.m. at Swayze Field in Oxford, Miss. Top-seed and host Ole Miss (43-17) will play fourth-seed Utah (25-27), who earned an automatic bid by winning the Pac-12, at 8 p.m. The four-team regionals are a double-elimination bracket that spans from June 3-6.
It will be the second time in program history the Eagles will face the Green Wave. BC opened the 2010 season in New Orleans and went 2-1. The Eagles have never faced Ole Miss or Utah in program history.
 
The last time the Eagles made the field of 64, they defeated Texas State, 8-7, in a comeback win in Austin before battling host Texas in the longest game played in NCAA history in the second game. Texas earned a 3-2 victory in 25 innings and BC fell, 4-3, to Army to drop out of the tournament.
 
A record 10 Atlantic Coast Conference teams made this year's tournament, including a record six host sites: Miami, Louisville, Virginia, Florida State, NC State, and Clemson. The 10 teams also tied an NCAA record and are the most from any conference in the field in 2016.
 
For the first time ever, five New England teams – BC, Bryant, Connecticut, Fairfield and Rhode Island – are in the field. In 2005, Rhode Island, Maine, Quinnipiac and Harvard all made the tournament.
 
The Eagles are 19-21 all-time in the NCAA Tournament and have earned a spot in the College World Series four times (1953, 1960, 1961, 1967).
 
Notes on the Eagles:

• The Eagles won a program-best six conference series and turned in the most ACC wins (14) since 2010.
• They were also 8-8 against teams ranked in the top 25 and 4-3 against top-10 teams over the year.
• BC began the season 8-0, the best start in program history.
• The Eagles won 10 of their 15 final regular-season games, including five of the final six ACC series.
• Boston College collected the most neutral and road victories in the ACC in 2016, notching 20 on the year. The Eagles also played the most games away from home (32). They recorded a .645 win percentage (20-12) away from The Heights, the best in the ACC Atlantic division and second only to Miami (11-4; .733) overall.