11Point7: The College Baseball Podcast

2026 NCAA Baseball Regional Picks + Omaha 8 Snake Draft For Cash

The 11.7 Podcast crew previews the NCAA baseball postseason by announcing a Homefield Apparel sponsored competition using a 16-team snake draft to see who can get the most teams to the College World Series and then they will document how the cash prize is spent in Omaha. They promote the $10 College Baseball Insiders bracket challenge, then draft their teams, recap the undrafted schools, and discuss their draft strategy afterwards. Using Dimitri’s detailed regional chart (records, RPI, SOS, hitting/pitching stats), they begin regional-by-regional winner and runner-up picks, noting perceived soft seeds, upset possibilities, and betting odds, with in-depth banter on some tough regionals to pick. Dimitri leaves for his Championship Softball game after making additional regional picks, his Omaha 8, and title pick. Ben and Noah finish the remaining regionals, then each selects super regional winners, and a national champion. They close with plans for live shows during regionals and by plugging the Homefield x 11.7 Diamond Den in Omaha.

00:00 Intro
00:22 Homefield $1,000 Omaha Teams Snake Draft
03:35 Snake Draft Begins
17:30 Final Picks and Recap
22:45 Coastal Twitter Beef
24:03 Regional Picks Begin
25:33 Los Angeles Regional Picks
31:50 Atlanta Regional Picks
36:53 Athens Regional Picks
42:14 Auburn Regional Picks
47:49 Chapel Hill Regional Picks
52:14 Austin Regional Picks
55:33 Tuscaloosa Regional Picks
59:18 Gainesville Regional Picks
01:03:06 Hattiesburg Regional Picks
01:07:16 Dimitri's Remaining Bracket
01:20:46 Tallahassee Regional Picks
01:26:17 Eugene Regional Picks
01:32:49 College Station Regional Picks
01:37:12 Lincoln Regional Picks
01:39:23 Starkville Regional Picks
01:43:25 Lawrence Regional Picks
01:47:35 Morgantown Regional Picks
01:51:39 Omaha 8 Bracket Picks
01:56:34 National Championship Picks
02:01:53 Live Shows & Omaha Plans
02:05:09 Preseason Omaha 8 Draft Lookback
02:11:07 Sign Off

The 11.7 Podcast drops its annual post–Selection Monday “superlatives” episode, running through 12 NCAA Regional categories (hardest/easiest regional, which hosts won’t advance, two/three/four-seeds most likely to advance, teams that can reach Omaha, best-uniform regional, most-watched regional, most offensive regional, and best pitching regional). The hosts also congratulate broadcaster Jack DeLongchamps on landing ESPN regional work in Starkville and a College World Series reporting role, then discuss Mercer being left out of the Field of 64 despite a top-30 RPI, arguing the decision reflects broader issues for mid-majors, scheduling, and the sport’s direction. They shout out their 11.7 Awards winners, debate why certain teams were seeded where they were, and preview an upcoming deeper regional-by-regional breakdown episode.

00:00 Intro
01:42 Shoutout to Jack
03:38 Mercer Snub Fallout
09:16 Mid Major Future Debate
13:21 117 Awards Recap
15:48 Regionals Hype and Superlatives
18:46 Hardest Regional Picks
25:47 Easiest Regional Picks
33:18 Top Eight Seed Upset
38:15 Upset Alerts Brewing
40:03 Seeds 9–16 Host in Trouble
42:00 College Station Breakdown
46:07 Other Hosts on Watch
48:27 Two Seeds to Advance
53:23 Three Seed Shock Picks
59:18 Four Seed Chaos Picks
01:06:34 Georgia Tech Ramsey Talk
01:08:51 Four Omaha Teams Regional
01:10:03 Super Regional Pairings
01:11:20 Drafting Regional Picks
01:13:24 Best Uniform Regional
01:17:40 Most Watched Debate
01:23:06 Most Offensive Regional
01:28:31 Best Pitching Regional
01:31:11 Starkville and Morgantown Spotlight
01:34:08 Wrap Up and Next Shows

We pick the winners for each conference championship. It's 2am, timestamps will probably come eventually. It's in alphabetical order. Please enjoy

We hopped on Youtube Live and built a field of 64 from scratch. You can scrub over to the 1 hour mark if you only want to listen to that. 

 

Here's the youtube link if you want visuals: https://www.youtube.com/live/CmaQ0Wz6ux4?si=T3_JmnB0Q7PMsiV-

 

The first hour was recapping the weekend and showing off our new website features. 

 

We plan on going live every night on our youtube until Omaha to interact with the chat and cover the college baseball postseason! Yall go subscribe to it. Not all will be on podcast form. 

 

We love you, let's have a great postseason!

The 11.7 Podcast crew wraps up the final midweek slate and previews the last regular-season weekend, including weekend pick ’em selections and early conference tournament coverage for leagues starting Thursday (Ivy, Patriot, Southland).

They discuss Mercer and Jacksonville State’s midweek wins, the new DSR metric, selection committee factors, and how volatile the 10–16 regional host range remains, especially in the Big Ten (Nebraska, Oregon, USC) and ACC (Georgia Tech title race, Wake hosting push, NC State/Virginia Tech bubble, Virginia’s slide). They hit Big 12 positioning (Kansas vs West Virginia, Cincinnati’s case), SEC seeding chaos and bubble debates (Kentucky, Oklahoma, Tennessee, LSU), Big West’s tight race with UC Irvine in danger of missing its own tournament, Sun Belt host/bid scenarios, AAC concerns around UTSA’s profile, and Southland tournament format and picks, then finish with pick ’em rivalry series and under-the-radar matchups.

00:00 Intro
01:36 DSR Metric Bonus Episode
03:40 Ice Cream Sandwich Debate
07:36 Jacksonville State Hosting Talk
09:14 Midweek Wins Shoutouts
10:14 Big Ten Hosting Scenarios
16:15 ACC Race And Bubble Teams
23:38 ACC Tournament Strategy Talk
34:53 Big 12 Title And Hosts
39:29 Parity And Title Contenders
42:25 Dangerous Two Seeds
43:37 Bubble Teams Big 12
46:55 SEC Bubble Chaos
49:52 Texas A&M Injury Woes
51:17 Hacopian MLB Hype
01:00:52 Big West Standings Drama
01:05:07 Sun Belt Hosts Debate
01:11:57 AAC One Bid Questions
01:16:38 Conference USA Bid Math
01:17:57 Southland Tournament Format
01:25:55 Patriot and Ivy preview
01:26:42 Ivy picks and bets
01:29:27 Sponsor shoutouts
01:30:23 Pick em standings
01:33:27 FSU vs Miami pick
01:38:02 Georgia vs Auburn debate
01:43:03 Coastal vs Louisiana
01:45:25 USC vs Oregon showdown
01:49:09 FDU vs LIU pick
01:54:39 Michigan vs Ohio State
01:58:41 Wrap up and sign off