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NCAA TOURNAMENT: NC State Headed To Auburn

NC State has been tabbed the No. 3 seed in the Auburn Regional with No. 1 seed Auburn, No. 2 seed UCF, and No. 4 seed Milwaukee in the 2026 NCAA Baseball Championship Tournament.
By James Henderson
May 25, 2026
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NC State has been tabbed the No. 3 seed in the Auburn Regional with No. 1 seed Auburn, No. 2 seed UCF, and No. 4 seed Milwaukee in the 2026 NCAA Baseball Championship Tournament.

Stay tuned for more shortly on NC State baseball!

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9:55p, 5/29/26
Y'all have a good night
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In reply to BigLefty24 • 9:55p, 5/29/26
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You can't afford to let Nance sit out there and struggle. You've been gifted a rare gimmie for game two with the Auburn loss. All hands on deck to win this game. Turn it into a bullpen game, throw your best guys for an inning, switch pitchers every inning to keep them ready for the rest of the weekend, whatever you need to do to win the game.

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9:55p, 5/29/26
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No defense can stop that one. Missed opportunity unless we figure it out at the plate.
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9:55p, 5/29/26
Well, it might be on to tomorrow
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9:55p, 5/29/26
Might as well leave him in. Andrews, have fun with Auburn tomorrow
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9:55p, 5/29/26
Throwing BP out there
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9:55p, 5/29/26
I've never seen someone throw low to mid 90s bp, but here we are…
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9:55p, 5/29/26
They're just taking BP off Nance. Sheesh.
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In reply to ClePack • 9:55p, 5/29/26
ClePack said:
That's game. Good thing we left nance in, lol


Outfielder needs to make that play
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9:56p, 5/29/26
Hope hart can hit the portal for some hitters
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9:56p, 5/29/26
Their best hitters are crushing the ball, Head, sherm and McHugh are not

That simple
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In reply to Alex Gee • 9:56p, 5/29/26
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No defense can stop that one. Missed opportunity unless we figure it out at the plate.

well we could have made a change on the mound to keep it close....sheesh
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9:56p, 5/29/26
I hope Hart figures out how to use the pitching hook.
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9:56p, 5/29/26
Might as well get you through the rest of this inning at this point
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9:56p, 5/29/26
we will get a chance to get back - we need to pull Nance
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9:57p, 5/29/26
Worst outing of his career. What a time for it.
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In reply to SportManagementEngineer • 9:57p, 5/29/26
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Just absolutely incapable of getting the clutch hit all year.

I was shocked earlier when it said we were the third best team in the ACC with the bases loaded. Supposedly we hit .407 with the bases loaded this year. Sure doesn't feel like it.


Probably have skewed numbers from the 25 run beat downs State put on the Delaware State Techs in the pre-conference schedule.
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9:57p, 5/29/26
This team just isn't good. They haven't been good all year. They couldn't win with Dudan and Mahron. I am not sure why I even got my hopes up.
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9:57p, 5/29/26
Good night, y'all.
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9:57p, 5/29/26
You just can't get by on 95 when you're leaving your change up and curve up in the zone that much. You're going to get hammered.
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9:57p, 5/29/26
kids has not looked like he is comfortable on the mound since the start.....but keep trotting him out there.....
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In reply to PGAWolf • 9:58p, 5/29/26
Exactly. Team was mediocre before the injuries
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9:58p, 5/29/26
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UCF is better team tonight.
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9:58p, 5/29/26
he just told him he has to eat this inning so that we can save arms
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In reply to ClePack • 9:58p, 5/29/26
ClePack said:
Hope hart can hit the portal for some hitters


We will need a new pitching coach and 3-4 arms that can go 5+ innings in ACC play. Nance regressed this year
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9:59p, 5/29/26
Lol. We saving arms?
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In reply to Alex Gee • 9:59p, 5/29/26
Alex Gee said:
Bmjones4 said:
Alex Gee said:
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Alex Gee said:
Reminder the inning is over with no runs if you had a competent Right Fielder.


Why are you such a nance apologist haha

It was a ball that hits fence in air, not a can of corn. They are squaring him up tonight, it's ok to admit it


Sure, but it's a play an average defender makes and it's a tie game through 3 ahead of schedule on pitch count.

Auburn's stadium sends everything to the fences.


So just to be clear, you think nance looks good tonight?


Our best chance to come out of this thing is at least 9 more outs from Nance tonight. He's the kind of guy that can pitch how he has so far and shove for 3 more innings if we don't look like the bad news bears behind him.


Waiting for the 6th to start shoving
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9:59p, 5/29/26
6 straight balls? gotta pull the kid
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In reply to PGAWolf • 9:59p, 5/29/26
PGAWolf said:
This team just isn't good. They haven't been good all year. They couldn't win with Dudan and Mahron. I am not sure why I even got my hopes up.


Lol this is why I said I didn't care to see us make it, lose game one and beat up on a four seed game two and then lose close game three.

Now it's just we are facing the one seed tomorrow to go home,

Frustrating team to watch this year.
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In reply to ClePack • 10:00p, 5/29/26
ClePack said:
Exactly. Team was mediocre before the injuries


This. Avent retiring got us in the tourney. Avg team at best.
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10:00p, 5/29/26
good thing the pen is just now getting loose.........
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In reply to pack2010 • 10:00p, 5/29/26
I have been pounding the table for a new pitching coach for years lol. I welcome that
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In reply to James Henderson • 10:00p, 5/29/26
James Henderson said:
UCF is better team tonight.


Yep. One team took advantage against a struggling pitcher, the other did not.
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10:01p, 5/29/26
For the last two years it feels like these teams should have done better
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10:03p, 5/29/26
Comes back to the heart of the order not being able to get a big hit. How many times has TY Head and McHugh come up this year in big spots and did nothing. It's happened all year.
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