UConn is the only No. 2 seed to host a regional. The host of ESPN's selection show seemed surprised that A) the Huskies are hosting and that B) top seed Florida State is not.
These were topics brought up n conversation with selection committee chairman Tim Weiser.
"A number of the things," Weiser said of the decision to send FSU on the road. "Obviously, we have a history in the past of taking a No. 1seed and placing it at different sites. ... Part of the rational (in the past), and continues to be this time is if you have the opportunity without sacrificing the competitive integrity of the game to put a regional site at a location that hasn't historically had one, I think that's good for college baseball. I feel strongly about an obligation to explore that. Frankly, the differentiation between a Connecticut and some of the other teams that were competing for it were very, very small."
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