Georgia Tech, Georgia Top Baseball America Ranking for 64 Teams — Ncaa Super Regional Schedule
Baseball America’s ncaa super regional schedule ranking is out, and Georgia Tech and Georgia sit at the top of the discussion after both earned 80 grades for run production. The 64-team 2026 NCAA Tournament field was ranked for postseason value, not just regular-season résumé.
That means the list leans on what teams should bring over a short run, with offense, pitching defense, run differential per game and average fastball velocity all feeding the evaluation. Each team was graded on a 20-to-80 scale, where 80 marked the best team in the tournament in that category and 20 marked the worst.
Georgia Tech’s lineup pressure
Georgia Tech’s 80-grade offense comes with a roster built to stress pitchers from the first inning. C Vahn Lackey, Drew Burress and Jarren Advincula head the star-power group, and the Yellow Jackets also had multiple position players projected to go in the first round.
That depth is what separates the team from a one-dimensional slugging group. Burress and Lackey are part of a lineup that was described as giving opponents nightmares, while Tate McKee anchors the pitching side as the ace.
The tradeoff sits on the mound. Georgia Tech’s run prevention graded 60, and its pitching depth could be outmatched on a given day by top staffs that can match its bats pitch for pitch.
Georgia’s power and patience
Georgia matched Georgia Tech with an 80 grade for run production, but it got there in a different way. Daniel Jackson, Joey Volchko and Tre’ Phelps were named the Bulldogs’ star-power players, and the offense hit the most home runs in Division I.
The bigger wrinkle for Georgia is how often it reaches base without needing a big swing. The Bulldogs drew an absurd amount of walks, rarely struck out, and still carried a run-prevention grade of 55 after walking a lot of hitters with an 11.6% walk rate.
That combination creates a profile that can win a game by pressure or by volume. It also leaves less margin for error if the pitching staff cannot trim the free passes that showed up in the grading.
UCLA and North Carolina
UCLA landed in the middle of the power conversation with Roch Cholowsky, Will Gasparino and Mulivai Levu leading the way. Its run production graded 60, and it averaged 8.2 runs per game, while the run-prevention side graded 70.
The Bruins had a chance to look even stronger on the mound if Logan Reddemann had been healthy. He had been absent since mid-April, and the absence kept UCLA from getting the 80-grade pitching staff it might have had.
North Carolina brought another balanced profile, with Owen Hull, Ryan Lynch, Jason DeCaro and Jake Schaffner featured among its star players. The Tar Heels’ offense graded 60 and their run prevention graded 70, backed by a deep lineup built around Schaffner, Hull, Cooper Nicholson, Colin Jayek and Gavin Gallaher and by a staff that ranked eighth in ERA, 32nd in FIP and 37th in xFIP.
That ranking gives readers a clean postseason snapshot before the bracket settles into actual games. The teams that rate best on offense and pitching now carry the clearest advantage, while the line between elite and vulnerable shows up quickly in the grades the tournament field received.
