Projected NCAA Tournament host sites

Special to SportsLine
May 6, 1999

This is an unofficial ranking of the top contenders to host the 16 NCAA Tournament Sub-Regionals and Super Regionals.

Although 16 teams will be declared hosts on May 17, only the top eight remaining teams will have home-field advantage through the Super Regionals.

The NCAA Tournament begins on May 28. The College World Series begins July 11.

The envelopes please ...

Rock solid
Rank
Site
Host school
1 College Station Texas A&M
2 Tallahassee Florida State
3 Miami, Fla. Miami
4 Palo Alto, Calif. Stanford
5 Columbus Ohio State
6 Fayetteville, Ark. Arkansas
7 Wichita, Kan. Wichita State
8 Tuscaloosa Alabama
9 Miss. State Miss. State
10 Lubbock Texas Tech
On the bubble
11 Austin Texas
12 Waco, Texas Baylor
13 Los Angeles USC
14 Fullerton, Calif. CS-Fullerton
15 Baton Rouge, La. LSU
16 New Orleans Tulane
17 Auburn, Ala. Auburn
18 Chapel Hill North Carolina
Longshots
19 Minneapolis Minnesota
20 Stillwater Oklahoma State
21 Columbia South Carolina
22 Clemson, S.C. Clemson