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 finished the regular season at 38-18 overall and 21-9 in CUSA play, finishing in second place in the conference standings while preparing for the 2026 CUSA Tournament. Liberty went 11-3 in weekend series during the season, only losing to West Virginia, Missouri State, and Louisiana Tech. The first two are both expected to make Regional play while Louisiana Tech is currently on the wrong side of the bubble.
The Flames are currently at 36 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 up slightly from last week’s ranking of 37. The Flames have a 4-6 record against Quad 1 opponents, 11-7 in Quad 2 games, 12-3 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 Jacksonville State and Missouri State also expected to make the field. Let’s take a look at those projections.
The Flames are currently being pegged as a 3-seed in the Lincoln, Nebraska Regional by D1Baseball, hosted by No. 13 overall seed Nebraska. Other teams in this projected regional include 2-seed Arkansas and 4-seed Wright State. UCLA is picked as the No. 1 overall seed while the other regional hosts projected by D1Baseball are Georgia Tech (2), Georgia (3), North Carolina (4), Texas (5), Alabama (6), Auburn (7), Texas A&M (8), Southern Miss (9), Florida (10), Florida State (11), West Virginia (12), Nebraska (13), Mississippi State (14), Kansas (15), and Oregon (16).
In Baseball America‘s projected field this week, Liberty is a No. 3 seed in the field and placed in the Austin, Texas regional where No. 4 overall seed Texas would be the host alongside No. 2 seed UC Santa Barbara and No. 4 seed Binghamton.
On3 Sports currently has Liberty as a three-seed in the Chapel Hill Regional alongside No. 5 overall seed North Carolina, Tennessee, and Illinois-Chicago.
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.
