IRVING, Texas – East Carolina has been selected as one of the 16 regional hosts for the 2021 NCAA Baseball Championship, as announced by the NCAA D1 Baseball Committee Sunday night, May 29.
It marks the fourth consecutive championship that the Pirates (42-18) will host a Greenville regional. The remaining at-large teams, top-16 national seeds and first-round regional matchups will be announced Monday, May 30 at noon ET/11 a.m. CT on ESPN2.
An American team has hosted a regional in each of the past five championships and six of the last seven. Houston (2017) and 2015) and Louisville (2014) are the other American Athletic Conference teams to host a regional. In addition to hosting in 2018, 2019 and 2021, ECU hosted a regional at Clark-LeClair Stadium in 2009, and also hosted opening round regional tournaments on two occasions at different venues.