After claiming its second-straight America East baseball title and third overall, the Binghamton Bearcats were selected to the Stillwater Regional of the 2014 NCAA Baseball Tournament, the committee announced Monday afternoon on ESPNU.
The Bearcats will face host and 10th-ranked Oklahoma State to open NCAA play on Friday night at 7 p.m. on ESPN3. Joining the Bearcats and Cowboys in Stillwater are Cal State Fullerton and Nebraska.
On Sunday, BU won the 2014 America East title with a memorable 8-7 win in 12 innings over top-seeded Stony Brook in the longest title game in conference history. The Bearcats were four outs from elimination before rallying to force extra innings and then BU won it when freshman Eddie Posavec hit a bases-loaded RBI single with one out in the bottom of the 12th.
Binghamton is 1-4 all-time in the NCAA tournament. The Bearcats lone win came in 2009, defeated George Mason 11-6. Last year the Bearcats lost a pair of tight games to N.C. State and Ole Miss.
Stony Brook University became the first America East team under the current NCAA tournament format to advance to the Super Regional Round and then went on to the College World Series in 2012. An America East team has won at-least one game in four of the last five NCAA tournament’s beginning with Binghamton in 2009.