The road to Omaha is never easy, and this opening weekend just proved that. The 2026 NCAA Tournament regionals have delivered major upsets, run-rule beatdowns, and enough drama to reshuffle expectations heading into today's final day of regional play.
Several tickets have already been punched to the Super Regionals, including Georgia, North Carolina, and Texas.
However, the biggest story of the weekend was the early exit of No. 1 overall seed UCLA, which became the first top seed eliminated from the tournament. No. 4 seed Saint Mary's bounced the Bruins on Sunday, edging UCLA 6-5 in 10 innings to send the top seed home before the week was out.
UCLA wasn't the only host team packing its bags early. Nebraska, a top-16 seed hosting a regional in Lincoln, was knocked out Sunday after Arizona State beat the Huskers in the elimination game. Southern Miss suffered a similar fate in Hattiesburg, losing to Little Rock in the opening round and then falling to Virginia in the loser's bracket before being bounced entirely, never winning a game at their own regional.
The full bracket, updated regional scores, and the slate of today's winner-take-all games can be found below.
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- The 2026 Elite 11 Finals wrapped Sunday in Los Angeles after three days of drills, pro-day competition, and 7-on-7 sessions among the top 2027 quarterback prospects in the country.
- Nebraska commit Trae Taylor took home Rivals MVP honors after a dominant weekend, capping things off with a seven-touchdown performance in Sunday's 7-on-7 period to go along with top performer nods on each of the three days.
- See how elite commits for LSU, Miami, Alabama, Clemson, and others stacked up across the full top performers list.
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SEC commissioner Greg Sankey doubled down on the conference's football supremacy claims at spring meetings Wednesday, despite the Big Ten winning the last three national titles. The SEC still leads in raw talent, putting 87 players in this year's NFL Draft compared to 68 from the Big Ten, but more talent hasn't translated to winning when it counts most. Ari Wasserman argues that the SEC's decades of dominance are real history, not current reality, and that declarations of superiority need to be earned back on the field.
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