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Bracket Set for 2026 Sun Belt Baseball Championship Presented by Troy University

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NEW ORLEANS — Following the conclusion of the regular season Saturday evening, the Sun Belt Conference announced the seeds and matchups for the 2026 Sun Belt Baseball Championship presented by Troy University. 
 
The 10-team tournament will be held at DABOS Park in Montgomery, Ala., from Tuesday, May 19, to Sunday, May 24.

Southern Miss (40-14, 22-8 SBC) won 14 of its last 15 conference games to finish 22-8 and earn its first-ever Sun Belt regular-season championship and the No. 1 seed in the tournament. The Golden Eagles have won nine-straight games heading into the postseason, where they will be looking for their third Sun Belt tournament title (2023 & 2024) in four all-time appearances.
 
No. 2 seed Coastal Carolina, No. 3 seed App State, No. 4 seed Troy, No. 5 seed South Alabama and No. 6 seed Texas State also earned byes into the eight-team double-elimination portion of the tournament bracket.  
 
A pair of single-elimination games between No. 10 seed Marshall and No. 7 seed Louisiana and No. 9 seed Georgia State and No. 8 seed Old Dominion will open tournament play on Tuesday, May 19. 

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Every tournament game will be nationally broadcast on ESPN+, concluding with the championship game at 2:00 p.m. ET/1:00 p.m. CT on Sunday, May 24. 

Tickets remain available, with prices starting at just $10. 
 
Coastal Carolina is the defending tournament champion and reigning national runner-up, having dethroned Southern Miss, 7-5, in the winner-take-all Sun Belt championship game last season. The win snapped the Golden Eagles’ 18-game winning streak and extended the Chanticleers own winning streak to 18 games. Coastal Carolina would go on to win eight-straight NCAA tournament games to extend that streak to 26-straight wins, before falling to LSU in the championship series of the 2025 College World Series. 
 
Both the Golden Eagles and Chanticleers are ranked in all five national polls entering the postseason. 

Historically a multi-bid conference, the Sun Belt has sent multiple teams to the postseason in 30-of-36 campaigns since 1989. The Sun Belt’s first-ever appearance in the College World Series championship series in 2025 came on the heels of a four-season span in which it sent 14 teams to NCAA Baseball Regionals, 10 to NCAA Baseball Regional finals and two to NCAA Baseball Super Regionals. That grouping included four regional hosts and national seeds—No. 13 Coastal Carolina (2025), No. 16 Southern Miss (2025), No. 10 Coastal Carolina (2023) and No. 16 Georgia Southern (2022). 
 
The Sun Belt has sent four teams to NCAA Baseball Regionals in three of the past four seasons and hosted two NCAA Baseball Regionals for the first time in conference history in 2025. 

For more information, including relevant links and daily recaps, visit Sun Belt Baseball Championship Central.