NEW ORLEANS – For the third time over the past four seasons, a Sun Belt program is bound for an NCAA Baseball Super Regional.
After dropping its regional opener to Miami, 10-5, on Friday, May 29, Troy rattled off four-straight wins over a three-day span to earn the first Super Regional berth in program history.
The Trojans scored 50 runs across their four elimination games—defeating Rider, 15-7, on Saturday, May 30, and Miami, 9-6, on Sunday, May 31, to set up a regional final matchup with host and No. 8 national seed Florida. Troy used a nine-run bottom of the sixth inning to outpace Florida, 16-11, on Sunday, May 31, and force a winner-take-all Game 7 in the Gainesville Regional. The Trojans jumped out to a lead in the top of the first of the Monday, June 1, finale and never trailed in a 10-2 victory over the Gators to punch their ticket to Super Regionals with a 36-30 record on the year.
When Gainesville Regional champion Troy takes Riddle-Pace Field this weekend to host its first-ever Super Regional against Little Rock, it will be the eighth all-time Super Regional appearance by a Sun Belt program since the format was adopted in 1999. Troy joins Coastal Carolina (2025), Southern Miss (2023), Louisiana (1999, 2000, 2014 & 2015) and former member FIU (2001) in representing the Sun Belt in an NCAA Baseball Super Regional.
The Trojans will open Super Regional action from Riddle-Pace Field in Troy, Ala., at 5:00 p.m. ET/4:00 p.m. CT on Friday, June 5, on ESPNU, followed by a 3:00 p.m. ET/2:00 p.m. CT Saturday, June 6, matchup on ESPN2. The if-necessary game will be played on Sunday, June 7.
The Sun Belt paces all non-autonomy conferences with three Super Regional appearances since 2023—Southern Miss (2023), Coastal Carolina (2025) and Troy (2026).
Sun Belt tournament runner-up Louisiana advanced to the Starkville Regional final, giving the Sun Belt multiple regional finalists for the fifth-straight season. After dropping its regional opener to Cincinnati, 12-2, on Friday, May 29, the Ragin’ Cajuns battled back with wins over Lipscomb, 10-4, and Cincinnati, 8-6, before succumbing to host and No. 14 national seed Mississippi State, 19-5, on Sunday, May 31. Louisiana concluded the 2026 season with a 41-25 mark.
Texas State won its College Station Regional opener, 5-4 over USC on Friday, May 29, but then dropped a pair to host and No. 12 national seed Texas A&M, 17-2, and USC, 15-4, to conclude its season 37-26.
Sun Belt regular-season runner-up and reigning national runner-up Coastal Carolina was eliminated from the Tallahassee Regional with back-to-back narrow losses to Northern Illinois, 12-10, and host and No. 10 national seed Florida State, 2-1. The Chanticleers finished the 2026 season at 37-23.
Sun Belt regular-season and tournament champion Southern Miss hosted an NCAA Baseball Regional in Hattiesburg for the second-straight year as the No. 9 national seed. The Golden Eagles were eliminated with back-to-back losses to Little Rock, 7-4, and Virginia, 15-11 in 10 innings. Southern Miss finished the 2026 campaign with a 44-17 record, running its NCAA Division I-leading streak of 40-win seasons to 10-straight.
For the 31st time in 37 seasons since 1989—and the fifth-straight campaign—the Sun Belt was represented by multiple teams in NCAA Baseball Regionals. The Sun Belt was 1-of-4 conferences with five-or-more teams in the NCAA field, joining the SEC, ACC and Big 12. For the sixth-straight year, the Sun Belt was represented in a regional final—including multiple regional finalists for the fifth-straight season.
Over the past five years, the Sun Belt has sent 19 teams to NCAA Baseball Regional, 12 to NCAA Baseball Regional finals, three to NCAA Baseball Super Regionals and one to the College World Series championship series.