The 2013 baseball season is in the home stretch and Clemson is in contention to host an NCAA Regional.  Each week we will take a look at where the Tigers stand in the push to host.

The path to the Super Regionals and much easier for the teams that are named a Regional Host.  A number of factors are considered when selecting the teams to host including record, RPI, Strength of Schedule (SOS), facilities, bids and other factors.

This week’s TCI Regional Host projections are:

Host Locks (6)

The following teams will be locks to host a regional and have a great chance to be a national seed:

North Carolina (41-4) – RPI (1) – SOS (31)

LSU (39-5) – RPI (2) – SOS (41)

Vanderbilt (38-6) – RPI (3) – SOS ( 30)

Virginia (38-8) – RPI (4) – SOS ( 26)

Florida State (35-9) – RPI (6) – SOS (33)

Oregon State (33-8) – RPI (5) – SOS (35

Likely Hosts (6)

Oregon (32-10) – RPI (7) – SOS (18)

Cal State Fullerton (35-7) – RPI (8) – SOS (78)

NC State (34-11) – RPI (9) – SOS (24)

South Carolina (32-12) – RPI (11) – SOS (20)

Mississippi State (33-12) – RPI (10) – SOS (11)

Indiana (33-8) – RPI (12) – SOS (83)

Bubble Teams

Clemson (30-14) – RPI (17) – SOS (8)

Ole Miss (31-14) – RPI (20) – SOS (29)

Florida (25-19) – RPI (19) – SOS (1)

Louisville (32-10) – RPI (24) – SOS (85)

UCLA (27-12) – RPI (15) – SOS (14)

Arizona State (27-12) – RPI (18) – SOS (19)

South Alabama (33-12) – RPI (14) – SOS (40)

Oklahoma (33-10) – RPI (34) – SOS (160)

Georgia Tech (28-16) – RPI (22) – SOS (23)

Virginia Tech (27-18) – RPI (13) – SOS (2)