Home Team Determination
NCAA Regional Play
For first-round games, the highest-seeded team shall be designated as the home team. In subsequent games, the home team shall be determined according to a formula applied by the games committee. In determining which of two teams in any game will be the home team, the games committee or the NCAA site representatives uses the following guidelines:
1. The institution that has been the home team the fewer number of times in that particular tournament shall be designated the home team.
2. If the two teams are equal in this respect but unequal in the number of times they were the visitor, then the team that has been the visitor more often will be designated the home team.
3. If the two teams are equal in the number of times that they have been home and visitor, the games committee or the NCAA site representative(s) shall observe the following procedures in the order stated:
a. If the two teams have met previously in that particular tournament, the visitor in the previous game shall be the home team in the game in question.
b. The team that was visitor in its preceding game shall be the home team, unless both teams were visitors in their preceding games.
4. The better-seeded team will be designated as the home team.
NCAA Super Regional Play
Two Teams Advancing With Different Regional/National Seeds
For Game 1, the better seeded team will be the home team. The lower seeded team will be the home team in Game 2. The better seeded team will be the home team in Game 3, if necessary.
** If a super regional is a matchup of two national seeds (i.e., #8 national seed vs. #9 national seed) the team with the better national seed will be the home team in Games 1 and 3.
Two Teams Advancing with Equal Regional Seeds
For Game 1, the winner of a coin flip will be the home team. The loser of the coin flip will be the home team in Game 2. A second coin flip will determine the home team in Game 3, if necessary. These coin flips must both take place during the pretournament meeting. The traveling team will call the coin toss for Game 1, while the host team will call the coin toss for Game 3 or defer the call to their opponent.