The NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament continues this weekend with the last step before the College World Series in Omaha, NE. All of the games will be on television. The eight Super Regional sites will be covered either through ESPN, ESPN2 or ESPNU.
Winners of the eight Super Regionals will converge at the College World Series starting on June 15.
Veteran college baseball announcers Carter Blackburn, Tom Hart and Mike Patrick will be involved in the play-by-play.
Analysts will include Alex Cora, Nomar Garciaparra, Doug Glanville, Paul Lo Duca and Kyle Peterson.
Super Regional action begins this Friday, June 7 and will conclude Monday, June 10.
Here’s the ESPN announcement.
Entire NCAA Division I Baseball Championship Super Regional Coverage Begins Friday
ESPN’s record-setting coverage of the 2013 college baseball season – more than 270 regular-season and conference tournament games, and all possible 153 NCAA Division I Baseball Championship contests for the first time – will continue with the Super Regionals Friday, June 7 to Monday, June 10.
ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPNU will combine to televise every game of the eight best-of-three Super Regionals (up to 24 games). Each Super Regional winner will advance to the College World Series. For the 11th straight year, ESPN and ESPN2 will combine to televise the entire College World Series (up to 17 games), including the best-of-three College World Series Finals.
This year’s schedule of up to 153 Championship games across surpasses the previous high of a possible 83 scheduled contests last year. The additional games come from coverage of all 16 Regional sites, an increase over six sites in 2012, four in 2011 and two each of the previous six years.
ESPN Super Regionals Schedule (Schedule subject to change)
Date Time (ET) Matchup / Commentators Game Networks Fri, June 7 1 p.m. South Carolina vs. North Carolina (Chapel Hill)
Dari Nowkhah, Danny Graves & Danny Kanell1 ESPN2 4 p.m. Rice vs. NC State (Raleigh)
Tom Hart & Paul Lo Duca1 ESPN2 7 p.m. Oklahoma vs. LSU (Baton Rouge)
Mike Patrick, Kyle Peterson & Kaylee Hartung1 ESPN 7 p.m. UCLA vs. Cal State Fullerton (Fullerton)
Carter Blackburn, Nomar Garciaparra & Jessica Mendoza1 ESPN2 Sat, June 8 Noon North Carolina vs. South Carolina (Chapel Hill)
Dari Nowkhah, Danny Graves & Danny Kanell2 ESPN Noon Indiana vs. Florida State (Tallahassee)
Mike Morgan & Doug Glanville1 ESPNU 1 p.m. Mississippi State vs. Virginia (Charlottesville)
Clay Matvick & Ben McDonald1 ESPN2 3 p.m. Louisville vs. Vanderbilt (Nashville)
Dave Neal & Chris Burke1 ESPN 4 p.m. NC State vs. Rice (Raleigh)
Tom Hart & Paul Lo Duca2 ESPN2 7 p.m. LSU vs. Oklahoma (Baton Rouge)
Mike Patrick, Kyle Peterson & Kaylee Hartung2 ESPN2 7 p.m. Kansas State vs. Oregon State (Corvallis)
Joe Davis, Alex Cora & Jay Walker1 ESPNU 10 p.m. Cal State Fullerton vs. UCLA (Fullerton)
Carter Blackburn, Nomar Garciaparra & Jessica Mendoza2 ESPN2 Sun, June 9 1 p.m. South Carolina vs. North Carolina (Chapel Hill)
Dari Nowkhah, Danny Graves & Danny Kanell3 * ESPN 1 p.m. Florida State vs. Indiana (Tallahassee)
Mike Morgan & Doug Glanville2 ESPNU 4 p.m. Vanderbilt vs. Louisville (Nashville)
Dave Neal & Chris Burke2 ESPN 4 p.m. Rice vs. NC State (Raleigh)
Tom Hart & Paul Lo Duca3 * ESPNU 7 p.m. Oklahoma vs. LSU (Baton Rouge)
Mike Patrick, Kyle Peterson & Kaylee Hartung3 * ESPN2 7 p.m. Virginia vs. Mississippi State (Charlottesville)
Clay Matvick & Ben McDonald2 ESPNU 10 p.m. UCLA vs. Cal State Fullerton (Fullerton)
Carter Blackburn, Nomar Garciaparra & Jessica Mendoza3 * ESPN2 10 p.m. Oregon State vs. Kansas State (Corvallis)
Joe Davis, Alex Cora & Jay Walker2 ESPNU Mon, June 10 1 p.m. Indiana vs. Florida State (Tallahassee)
Mike Morgan & Doug Glanville3 * ESPN2 4 p.m. Mississippi State vs. Virginia (Charlottesville)
Clay Matvick & Ben McDonald3 * ESPN2 7 p.m. Louisville vs. Vanderbilt (Nashville)
Dave Neal & Chris Burke3 * ESPN2 7 p.m. Kansas State vs. Oregon State (Corvallis)
Joe Davis, Alex Cora & Jay Walker3 * ESPNU * If necessary
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