The 16 regional hosts for next weekend's first round of the NCAA Tournament have been announced, and Oregon St. (42-12) is among them, hosting the Corvallis Regional for the 5th time, starting Friday.
The other hosts are:
LSU (44-14-1) in Baton Rogue, LA
Louisiana-Lafayette (53-7) in Lafayette, LA
Florida (40-21) in Gainsville, FL
Florida St. (43-15) in Tallahassee, FL
Virginia (44-13) in Charlottesville, VA
TCU (42-15) in Fort Worth, TX
South Carolina (42-16) in Columbia, SC
Miami (41-17) in Coral Gables, FL
Vanderbilt (41-18) in Nashville, TN
Louisville (45-15) in Louisville, KY
Rice (41-18) in Houston, TX
Cal-Poly (45-10) in San Luis Osbispo. CA
Indiana (42-13) in Bloomington, IN
Oklahoma St. (45-16) in Stillwater, OK
Mississippi (41-18) in Oxford. MS
The 8 National Seeds and the brackets will be announced tomorrow morning at 9 AM PST, and will be aired on ESPNU.
Oregon St. also hosted regionals in 2005, 2006, 2011, and 2013, and went 3-0 in each of them.
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