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 (7)

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

North Carolina (42-4) – RPI (1) – SOS (18)

LSU (41-6) – RPI (4) – SOS (44)

Vanderbilt (41-6) – RPI (2) – SOS ( 29)

Virginia (39-8) – RPI (3) – SOS ( 21)

Florida State (38-9) – RPI (5) – SOS (32)

Oregon State (37-8) – RPI (6) – SOS (41)

NC State (37-11) – RPI (7) – SOS (17)

Likely Hosts (5)

The following teams are not locks, but are very likely to host:

Oregon (36-11) – RPI (8) – SOS (34)

Cal State Fullerton (38-7) – RPI (9) – SOS (69)

South Carolina (33-14) – RPI (11) – SOS (9)

Mississippi State (35-13) – RPI (10) – SOS (8)

Indiana (35-9) – RPI (12) – SOS (94)

Bubble Teams (7)

Right now it looks like four of these teams will host:

Clemson (30-15) – RPI (14) – SOS (6)

Ole Miss (33-16) – RPI (20) – SOS (35)

Louisville (37-10) – RPI (23) – SOS (129)

UCLA (30-13) – RPI (15) – SOS (23)

Arizona State (29-14) – RPI (17) – SOS (20)

South Alabama (36-13) – RPI (16) – SOS (51)

Kansas State (34-15) – RPI (27) – SOS (62)

Miami (30-18) – RPI (18) – SOS (3)

Fat Lady Warming Up

The following teams are still alive, but barely:

Georgia Tech (29-18) – RPI (25) – SOS (16)

Virginia Tech (30-19) – RPI (13) – SOS (2)

Oklahoma (34-14) – RPI (43) – SOS (137)

Florida (25-23) – RPI (19) – SOS (1)