Florida Gators baseball snuck into the 2013 NCAA Tournament on Monday, earning a berth to the event for the sixth-straight year despite finishing the season with a 29-28 record and losses in nine of their last 13 games.
The three seed in the Bloomington Regional, Florida will open play Friday at 1 p.m. against two-seed Austin Peay (45-13). The game will air live only on ESPN3.com.
Also in the Bloomington Regional are its hosts, one-seed Indiana (43-14), and four-seed Valparaiso (31-26). The Gators went 1-2 against the Hoosiers during a three-game series in Gainesville, FL back in March.
Regional action will continue through Sunday or Monday (if necessary) with the winner out of Bloomington moving on to face the victor from the Tallahassee Regional.
Florida is not hosting a regional for the first time since 2007, when the Gators missed the tournament entirely, but is making its 29th all-time appearance in regional play. UF has been to six-straight NCAA Tournaments under the leadership of head coach Kevin O’Sullivan but is still looking for its first national championship. Florida has reached the College World Series seven times and played for the national title twice (2005, 2011).
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