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2021 NCAA Baseball Tournament Super Regionals: Dates, TV Channels, Schedule and Odds

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The NCAA Division I baseball tournament moves on to the super regionals stage this weekend with the 16 remaining teams set to battle it out for a berth in the first round of the College World Series.

Of the eight best-of-three series, four will run from Friday to Sunday, with the remaining four beginning on Saturday and ending on Monday.

Vanderbilt and East Carolina get the ball rolling at 12 p.m. ET on Friday, June 11, before Texas Tech faces Stanford. Arkansas, the No. 1 overall seed, is in action at 6 p.m. ET on Friday against North Carolina State.

Here's all you need to know ahead of this weekend.

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NCAA baseball tournament super regional dates and sites

Four of the eight series begin on Friday, June 11 and run until Sunday, June 13. The remaining four series get the ball rolling on Saturday June 12 and run until Monday, June 14.

As ever, the super regional stage takes place across eight different sites. Texas and Mississippi both have two sites each in Austin and Lubbock and Knoxville and Starkville respectively, while the remaining four include Fayetteville, Arkansas; Tucson, Arizona; Columbia, Missouri and Nashville, Tennessee.

Which teams are in?

No. 1 overall seed Arkansas is one of the six SEC teams left in the tournament, along with Tennessee and Vanderbilt—the No. 3 and No. 4 seeds respectively—No.7-seeded Mississippi State, No. 12 seed Ole Miss and LSU.

The latter is one of three unseeded teams left in the super regionals along with Dallas Baptist University and South Florida, one of the two AAC representatives together with No. 13 seed East Carolina.

The Pac-12 and Big 12 have two teams each in No. 5 seed Arizona and No. 9 seed Stanford, and No. 2 Texas and No. 8 Texas Tech.

No. 11 seed Old Dominion is the sole Conference USA representative, while North Carolina State and No. 10 Notre Dame fly the ACC flag.

How to watch the NCAA baseball tournament on TV

The tournament is televised across the ESPN networks, with Monday's games broadcast on ESPN2, ESPN3 and ESPNU.

How to watch NCAA baseball tournament online

Every game can be live-streamed via WatchESPN, while selected games are available via fuboTV.

2021 NCAA baseball tournament TV schedule

(All times ET, number in between bracket denotes overall national seed)

Fayetteville Super Regional

Arkansas (1) vs. North Carolina State

  • Game 1: Friday, June 11—6 p.m., ESPNU
  • Game 2: Saturday, June 12—3 p.m., ESPN2
  • Game 3 (if needed): Sunday, June 13—6 p.m., ESPN2 or ESPNU

Lubbock Super Regional

Texas Tech (8) vs. Stanford (9)

  • Game 1: Friday, June 11—3 p.m., ESPNU
  • Game 2: Saturday, June 12—3 p.m., ESPNU
  • Game 3 (if needed): Sunday, June 13—3 p.m., ESPN2 or ESPNU

Nashville Super Regional

Vanderbilt (4) vs. East Carolina (13)

  • Game 1: Friday, June 11—12 p.m., ESPN2
  • Game 2: Saturday, June 12—12 p.m., ESPN2
  • Game 3 (if needed): Sunday, June 13—3 p.m., ESPN2 or ESPNU

Tucson Super Regional

Arizona (5) vs. Ole Miss (12)

  • Game 1: Friday, June 11—9 p.m., ESPNU
  • Game 2: Saturday, June 12—10 p.m., ESPN2
  • Game 3 (if needed): Sunday, June 13—9 p.m., ESPN or ESPNU
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Robert Moore #1 celebrates with Casey Opitz #12 of the Arkansas Razorbacks after hitting a home run during a game against the Nebraska Cornhuskers at the NCAA Fayetteville Regional at Baum-Walker Stadium at George Cole Field on June 7 in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The Razorbacks defeated the Cornhuskers 6-2. Wesley Hitt/Getty Images

Austin Super Regional

Texas (2) vs. South Florida

  • Game 1: Saturday, June 12—9 p.m., ESPNU
  • Game 2: Sunday, June 13—9 p.m., ESPN2 or ESPNU
  • Game 3 (if needed): Monday, June 14—4 p.m. or 7 p.m., ESPN2 or ESPNU

Columbia Super Regional

Dallas Baptist University vs. (11) Old Dominion

  • Game 1: Saturday, June 12—12 p.m., ESPNU
  • Game 2: Sunday, June 13—12 p.m., ESPN2 or ESPNU
  • Game 3 (if needed): Monday, June 14—1 p.m., ESPNU

Knoxville Super Regional

Tennessee (3) vs. LSU

  • Game 1: Saturday, June 12—7 p.m., ESPN2
  • Game 2: Sunday, June 13—12 p.m. or 3 p.m., ESPN2 or ESPNU
  • Game 3 (if needed): Monday, June 14—4 p.m. or 7 p.m., ESPN2 or ESPNU

Starkville Super Regional

Mississippi State (7) vs. Notre Dame (10)

  • Game 1: Saturday, June 12—2 p.m., ESPN
  • Game 2: Sunday, June 13—6 p.m., ESPN2 or ESPNU
  • Game 3 (if needed): Monday, June 14—7 p.m., ESPN2 or ESPNU

2021 NCAA baseball tournament odds

DraftKings has the No. 1 overall seed Arkansas as the 9-5 favourite to win the World Series, followed by Vanderbilt at 9-2 and Texas at 5-1 respectively and Tennessee at 6-1.

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