INDIANAPOLIS -- The 2015 America East Baseball Champion Stony Brook Seawolves will head to the Fort Worth Regional of the NCAA Championship on Friday, May 29, after earning the conference's automatic bid to the tournament. The 64-team field was revealed on Monday afternoon by the NCAA Selection Committee on ESPNU.
The Seawolves (34-14-1) are the No. 3 seed in the region and will face No. 2 N.C. State, an at-large selection from the ACC, on Friday at 3:30 PM ET. The game will be aired live on ESPN3. Top-seed in the region and host, TCU, will face No. 4 Sacred Heart at 8 p.m. on Friday.
"This is a good bracket," Stony Brook head coach Matt Senk said. "TCU is an outstanding team and of course N.C. State out of the ACC is really playing well and has played well for a good month or so and Sacred Heart taking their tournament. This is a good field and we are excited to be a part of it."
Stony Brook earned the automatic bid by claiming the program's fifth America East Tournament title this past Saturday. This will be the fifth NCAA Tournament appearance for the Seawolves and the first since the school's historic run to the College World Series in 2012.
This is the first time Stony Brook enters the field as a No. 3 seed. The Seawolves own a 7-10 record in NCAA Tournament games, including winning the Coral Gables Regional and the Baton Rouge Super Regional in 2012.
Stony Brook 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 six NCAA tournament’s beginning with Binghamton in 2009.