The Kansas Jayhawks have made the NCAA Baseball Tournament for the sixth time in their history. Kansas earned a 2-seed, the highest seed of non-regional-hosts, and will travel to Fayetteville, Arkansas to play in that regional. Its first game is against Creighton at 7:00 pm on Friday, May 30.
It’s not easy to win a regional as a road team, as hosts (1-seeds) have won 66.8% of all regionals since 1999 (the first year of the 64-team format). 2’s have won 18.8% of regionals, 3’s 12.3%, and 4’s only 2.3%.
The betting odds for the Fayetteville regional have this skewed even higher in favor of host-team Arkansas, who is the #3 overall seed in the field and the betting favorites to win the College World Series.
- 1. Arkansas – 79.45%
- 2. Kansas – 11.35%
- 3. Creighton – 6.98%
- 4. North Dakota State – 2.21%
Even though KU has a difficult path ahead of it, the team has had a great season which includes a program-most 43 wins of which 26 are come-from-behind. This team is very capable of winning a regional.
Charting the Hawks 