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Super-Regional Info from Around the Internet (2016)

ESPN.com's Graham Hays previews the super-regionals.

Each super-regional series will be played over two days (a single game on Day 1, with a double-header on Day 2 if a decisive third game is needed). As detailed here, two series will be played on Thursday-Friday (Florida-Georgia, Oklahoma-Louisiana Lafayette); three will be played on Friday-Saturday (Alabama-Washington, James Madison-LSU, Florida State-Utah); and three on Saturday-Sunday (Michigan-Missouri, Auburn-Arizona, Oregon-UCLA).

For many of these teams, making the super-regionals is old-hat. The super-regional format is now in its twelfth year, having been introduced in 2005. Here are the teams with the longest continuous streaks of making the supers:

Alabama, made it all twelve years

 Oklahoma, seven straight

 Oregon, seven straight

 Louisiana-Lafayette, five straight

 Florida State, four straight

 UCLA, three straight

 LSU, two straight

 Auburn, two straight

And some impressive near-continuous streaks:

Michigan, eleven out of twelve

 Arizona, eleven out of twelve

 Florida, nine of the last ten years

 Missouri, eight of the last nine years

Georgia, eight of the last nine years

 Washington, seven of the last eight years

 Finally, James Madison and Utah will be making their first-ever appearances in the super-regionals.

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