With postseason looming, where is Auburn baseball projected in NCAA Tournament?

AUBURN — Fifty-four games later, Auburn baseball has another regular season behind it and plenty to look toward.

The sixth-ranked Tigers wrapped up their regular season over the weekend with their first series loss in more than a month, having won six consecutive series between April 4 and May 9.

Now, ahead of Auburn‘s appearance at this week’s SEC Tournament, which starts Wednesday, May 20 (TBA, SECN), there’s plenty of reason to believe the program will land a national seed in the NCAA Tournament for a second consecutive season, playing the nation’s strongest schedule and boasting the country’s third-best RPI.

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“I feel like I’m one of a handful of coaches that every time we take the field, because of the schedule and what we’ve been through and the wins we look at that we’ve had, that I think we have a chance to win a baseball game against anybody in America,” head coach Butch Thompson said.

Here’s a look at the latest projections, as well as Auburn’s postseason résumé as the Tigers head to Hoover.

Auburn baseball’s 2026 NCAA Tournament résumé

• Top 25 rankings (May 18)
  • Baseball America: No. 6 (-2)
  • Coaches Poll: No. 6 (-)
  • D1Baseball: No. 6 (-1)
  • NCBWA: No. 7 (-2)
  • Perfect Game: No. 8 (-3)
• RPI: No. 3
  • Strength of schedule: No. 1
  • Record: 36-18, 17-13 SEC
    • Home: 21-10
    • Away: 10-8
    • Neutral: 5-0
    • Quad 1: 17-16
    • Quad 2: 7-2
    • Quad 3: 4-0
    • Quad 4: 8-0

Auburn baseball’s latest bracketology projections

• Baseball America (May 18): No. 6 overall seed
  • Regional projection: 2-seed Missouri State; 3-seed TCU; 4-seed Bethune-Cookman*
  • Super regional opponent: Hattiesburg regional (Southern Miss, Arkansas, High Point, Campbell)
• D1Baseball (May 18): No. 7 overall seed
  • Regional projection: 2-seed Wake Forest, 3-seed Louisiana, 4-seed North Florida*
  • Super regional opponent: Gainesville regional (Florida, Cincinnati, NC State, Rider*)
• USA TODAY (May 19): No. 6 overall seed
  • Regional projection: 2-seed Boston College; 3-seed Miami-Ohio*; 4-seed Yale*
  • Super regional opponent: Starkville regional (Mississippi State, Oklahoma State, Michigan, Binghamton*)

Asterisks denote automatic qualifiers.

Adam Cole is the Auburn athletics beat writer for the Montgomery Advertiser. He can be reached via email at acole@gannett.com or on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, @colereporter.To support Adam’s work, please subscribe to the Montgomery Advertiser.

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