College Baseball Notebook: Ga. Tech, UCLA, Kansas, Georgia are top seeds in conference tournaments

The field for the NCAA Tournament will begin taking shape this week with 28 of the 29 automatic bids to be decided in conference tournaments.

Yale became the first qualifier with its 7-5 victory over Brown in the Ivy League championship game Sunday.

The 64-team national tournament opens with regional play on May 29. Regional hosts will be announced Sunday and the rest of the field next Monday. The College World Series is June 12 through June 21 or 22 in Omaha, Nebraska.

A look at the tournaments in the power conferences:

Site: Truist Field; Charlotte, North Carolina.

Days: Tuesday to Sunday.

2025 champion: North Carolina.

Top seed: Georgia Tech.

Short hops: The Yellow Jackets are the top seed for a second straight year, this time under first-year coach James Ramsey. ... Georgia Tech ended the regular season with 10 straight wins over ACC opponents. The Yellow Jackets lead the nation in scoring (10.7 runs per game) and batting average (.358). ... North Carolina leads the ACC in ERA (3.71) and fielding (.981) and reliever Caden Glauber has an ACC-leading 1.96 ERA. ... Boston College (36-20, 17-13), picked last in the ACC preseason coaches' poll, had the best regular season in the program's 80-year history. ... Louisville's Tague Davis leads the nation with 34 homers.

Site: Charles Schwab Field; Omaha, Nebraska.

Days: Tuesday to Sunday.

2025 champion: Nebraska.

Top seed: UCLA.

Short hops: The Bruins (48-6, 28-2 Big Ten) set a program record for regular-season wins and conference wins and were the only program in the nation to take at least two of three games each weekend. ... UCLA's 3.34 ERA is second in the nation and projected No. 1 MLB draft pick Roch Cholowsky has hit a Big Ten-leading 21 homers. ... Nebraska enters with a Big Ten-best seven-game winning streak, is batting .314 and ranks fourth nationally in fielding (.984). ... Catcher Burke-Lee Mabeus' squeeze bunt in the 14th inning Saturday sent Oregon to a 6-5 win over Southern California, giving the Ducks the No. 3 seed over the Trojans. ... USC leads the nation with nine shutouts.

Site: Surprise Stadium; Surprise, Arizona.

Days: Tuesday to Saturday.

2025 champion: Arizona.

Top seed: Kansas.

Short hops: This is the first time the tournament is at Surprise Stadium, the spring training home of the Kansas City Royals and Texas Rangers. ... Kansas' regular-season championship was the Jayhawks' first since they won the Big Seven in 1949. ... West Virginia leads the Big 12 in ERA (3.90), hits allowed per nine innings (7.64), shutouts (6) and fielding (.981). ... Arizona State's Landon Hairston has hit a program record-tying 27 homers. ... UCF's 19 conference wins are its most since it had the same number in the Atlantic Sun in 2005. ... Oklahoma State leads the Big 12 with 137 homers, its most since 1997.

Site: Metropolitan Complex; Hoover, Alabama.

Days: Tuesday through Sunday.

2025 champion: Vanderbilt.

Top seed: Georgia.

Short hops: Georgia won nine of 10 league series, including all five on the road against ranked opponents, a first in SEC history. The Bulldogs' 147 homers are the most in the nation. ... Texas has recorded consecutive 40-win regular seasons for the first time since 2010-11. ... Gavin Lyons' nine wins and Caden Sorrell's 1.45 RBIs per game for Texas A&M lead the SEC. ... Alabama's 18 SEC wins were its most since 2009. ... Florida's Brandon Lawson averages a walk a game and leads the SEC with a .507 on-base percentage. ... Defending national champion LSU, the No. 14 seed in the 16-team field, was 9-21 (.300) in SEC play, its worst conference record since 4-15 (.211) in 1977.

UCLA, North Carolina (43-10-1) and Georgia Tech (45-9) remained the top three Monday in the D1Baseball.com rankings.

In the Baseball America rankings, Tech moved up one rung to No. 2 and Carolina dropped one spot to No. 3.

UCLA bounced back from an 8-0 loss to Washington to beat the Huskies 6-5 and 6-1 to finish the regular season. Carolina took two of three at home against N.C. State. Georgia Tech outscored Boston College 38-3 over three games on the road, its most lopsided series win over a Top 25 opponent.

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FILE - The NCAA logo is seen on a baseball during an NCAA college baseball tournament regional game between Louisiana-Lafayette and Mississippi State in Lafayette, La., June 2, 2014. (AP Photo/Jonathan Bachman, File)

Adam Scott officially is set for his 100th consecutive major next month in the U.S. Open, which added 24 players to the field from the world ranking, with more spots available through qualifiers in England and Dallas on Monday.

Scott effectively secured his spot among the top 60 in the world with a tie for fourth in the Cadillac Championship at Doral. He is at No. 49 in this week's ranking, which the U.S. Open uses to determine who avoids qualifying.

Others exempt from the top 60 include Jordan Spieth, Patrick Reed and Alex Smalley, who tied for second in the PGA Championship to move up 36 spots to No. 42.

Matti Schmid, who had the lead during the final round of the PGA Championship and wound up in a tie for fourth, earned one of five exemptions awarded to leading players in the FedEx Cup on the PGA Tour who were not already exempt.

The exemptions finalized Monday means 70 players in the 156-man field will go through qualifying, an unusually low number for a major that prefers that roughly half the field has to qualify. The U.S. Open is June 18-21 at Shinnecock on New York's Long Island.

Adding to the field Monday were qualifiers in Dallas and England.

The 36-hole qualifier at Walton Heath in England offered seven spots (and two spots for alternates). Among those in the field was Thomas Detry. He was set to earn an exemption from LIV Golf until Lucas Herbert won in Virginia. Detry was at No. 61 going into the PGA Championship and poised to move up until missing the cut by one shot at Aronimink. He fell to No. 64.

Detry left Philadelphia for London to go through 36 holes of qualifying, and he was headed for a playoff to determine the final spots.

The Dallas qualifier — the first of 11 to be held in North America over the next month — featured Sergio Garcia among 14 players from LIV Golf.

Scott's streak began with the 2001 British Open, and he has not missed one since, even going through U.S. Open qualifying when he wasn't exempt. It's the longest streak since Jack Nicklaus played in 146 in a row, from the 1962 Masters through the 1998 U.S. Open.

Scott's one close call was breaking a bone in his hand before the 2008 U.S. Open at Torrey Pines, but he played — grouped with Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson in the opening two rounds — and tied for 26th that week.

“I would rather win some stuff, and let’s celebrate winning the U.S. Open than just playing in it,” Scott said three weeks ago. “I can give myself a pat on the back for hanging in there and playing all these events. I think there’s some luck in it, but I think I’ve had generally great advice around me from a physical and training standpoint that’s kept me healthy and pretty much injury-free.”

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Alex Smalley hits from the fourth tee during the final round of the PGA Championship golf tournament at Aronimink Golf Club, Sunday, May 17, 2026, in Newtown Square, PA. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

Matti Schmid, of Germany, hits from the bunker on the 13th green during the final round of the PGA Championship golf tournament at Aronimink Golf Club, Sunday, May 17, 2026, in Newtown Square, PA. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

Adam Scott, of Australia, looks at his ball on the 10th green during the second round of the PGA Championship golf tournament at Aronimink Golf Club, Friday, May 15, 2026, in Newtown Square, PA. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)