ORLANDO – For the second time in three years, the UCF baseball team has earned an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament. The Knights have earned a No. 2 seed and will participate in the NCAA Auburn Regional.
The NCAA Auburn Regional will run Friday, May 29 to Monday, June 1 at Auburn’s Plainsman Park in Auburn, Alabama.
The Black and Gold (31-21) have earned the No. 2 seed in the four-team regional and will open play against the No. 3 seed NC State Wolfpack (32-22) on Friday at 6 p.m. ET. The No. 4 national seed and host Auburn Tigers (38-19) will begin play on Friday at 1 p.m. ET and will face the No. 4 seed Milwaukee Panthers (25-31).
The NCAA appearance will mark UCF’s second under third-year head coach Rich Wallace and the program’s 14th NCAA Regional appearance in program history. The Knights last appeared as the No. 3 seed in the 2024 NCAA Tallahassee Regional and made it to the regional final that season.
This year’s appearance will mark just UCF’s second outside of the Sunshine State and its first in outside of the state in 25 years. UCF last took part outside of the state of Florida in 2001 at the NCAA Columbia Regional in Columbia, South Carolina. Of the Black and Gold’s now 14 appearances nine have been in Tallahassee.
The Knights will head to Auburn with a 31-21 overall record and set Big 12 era records in both conference wins with 19 (19-11) and league series wins with seven. The 19 league wins marks the Black and Gold’s most since 2005 when they were a member of the Atlantic Sun Conference. UCF also posted its highest finish in Big 12 play this season by tying for third place in the conference standings en route to earning its best Big 12 Tournament seed with the No. 4 seed at last week’s 2026 Big 12 Tournament in Surprise, Arizona. The Knights went on the reach the quarterfinal round before falling to the 19th-ranked and fifth seeded Oklahoma State Cowboys by a score of 12-6.
UCF will enter this week’s NCAA Regional with the nation’s 36th RPI.
The postseason appearance for Black and Gold Baseball marks the 10th for UCF for the 2025-26 academic year. The 10 NCAA appearances ties for the most in UCF history with the 2018-19 athletic year.
For tickets and more information, visit the tournament central page at AuburnTigers.com.
Headed to the NCAA Auburn Regional ⚔️
— UCF Baseball (@UCF_Baseball) May 25, 2026
First Regional outside of the Sunshine State in 25 years! pic.twitter.com/2P5MQFbSNB