The Liberty Flames are looking to get back to an NCAA Regional this season for the first time since 2022 as we approach the stretch run of this season. Liberty is currently 36-17 overall and 19-8 in CUSA play, currently sitting in second place in the conference standings entering the final weekend series of the regular season.
The Flames are currently at 37 in RPI, setting the team up in pretty solid shape in the at-large field discussion should the team not win the CUSA Tournament. Liberty is down from last week’s ranking of 27. The Flames have a 4-6 record against Quad 1 opponents, 11-7 in Quad 2 games, 10-2 in Quad 3 games, and 11-2 against Quad 4. Liberty continues to be projected into the NCAA Tournament field by most projections this week. CUSA is also pegged to get three teams in the field by many with Louisiana Tech on the bubble as what would be the fourth team from the league to make the field. Let’s take a look at those projections.
The Flames are currently being pegged as a 3-seed in the Chapel Hill, North Carolina Regional by D1Baseball, hosted by No. 5 overall seed North Carolina. Other teams in this projected regional include 2-seed UC Santa Barbara and 4-seed Campbell.
UCLA is picked as the No. 1 overall seed while the other regional hosts projected by D1Baseball are Georgia Tech (2), Georgia (3), Auburn (4), North Carolina (5), Texas (6), Alabama (7), Texas A&M (8), Southern Miss (9), Florida (10), Florida State (11), Mississippi State (12), West Virginia (13), Oregon State (14), Kansas (15), and Oregon (16).
In Baseball America‘s projected field this week, Liberty is the No. 3 seed in the field and placed in the Morgantown, West Virginia regional where No. 16 overall seed West Virginia would be the host alongside No. 2 seed Ole Miss and No. 4 seed Binghamton.
On3 Sports currently has Liberty as a three-seed in the Athens Regional alongside No. 6 overall seed Georgia, Virginia, and Niagara.
The Flames conclude the regular season this weekend with a three-game series at Middle Tennessee in Murfreesboro, Tennessee starting Thursday evening at 7 p.m. The CUSA Tournament begins in Kennesaw, Georgia on May 20.
