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Just like the other major college sports, there is a carrot at the end of the stick for NCAA Division I baseball teams. The national champion is crowned at the end-of-season eight-team College World Series, which takes place in June at Charles Schwab Field in Omaha, Nebraska. The baseball schedule is grueling, typically consisting of around 50 games. Toss in conference tournaments, NCAA Tournament regionals and super regionals, then the CWS and the number of games climbs higher. The 2023 national champion LSU Tigers won 54 of their 71 games, but they were denied a chance at a repeat when they fell to North Carolina in the final of the Chapel Hill Regional.
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A total of 64 teams qualify for the NCAA postseason baseball tournament, including conference champions and at-large teams. The field is whittled down to eight teams through Regionals and Super Regionals that take place in the weekends preceding the CWS. The 2024 NCAA Baseball Championship concludes with the Men’s College World Series, which starts on June 14 and runs through June 24 at the latest. All of the action from the first pitch of the tournament through the last game of the College World Series can be found on the ESPN family of networks.
2025 College World Series Schedule
Selection Show: Monday, May 26 at 12:00 PM ET (tentative) ESPN2 or ESPNU
Regionals: Friday-Monday, May 30-June 2
Super Regionals: Friday-Monday, June 6-9
First day of 2025 College World Series: Friday, June 13
2025 College World Series Final: June 21-22/23
College Baseball doesn’t always get the national spotlight like football and basketball, but the College World Series brings just as much excitement as the College Football Playoff and March Madness. With the game becoming more and more popular over the years and betting markets increasing, the game is at an all-time high in terms of recognition. In a surprise development only two athletic conferences will be represented in Omaha. If you’re a fan of the Southeastern Conference or the Atlantic Coast Conference this tournament is right up your alley. The college baseball season concludes with the College World Series, an eight-team tournament held in Omaha, Nebraska in June to determine the season’s national champion. It is the culmination of a College Baseball Tournament that narrows a field of 64 teams down to eight. The eight teams in Omaha for the CWS play in two brackets of four teams each in a double-elimination format. The two winners then meet in a best-of-three series to determine college baseball’s national champion. The 2025 College World Series will take place from June 13-23 at Charles Schwab Field in Omaha and will be televised by ESPN, ESPN 2, ESPN+ and ESPNU. Read more
NCAA Baseball Tournament Format
Just like the NCAA basketball tournament, there are automatic qualifiers for all conference champions. But unlike the NCAA Tournament, a college baseball team's season ends after two losses, not just one. On the eve of the selection of the brackets for the NCAA Baseball Tournament, the selection committee releases the top 16 seeds. Those 16 teams host a four-team regional. Teams are seeded 1 through 4 in each mini-bracket, with No. 1 playing No. 4 in one game and No. 2 playing No. 3 in the other. The two winners face off in the second round of games, while the two losers meet in an elimination game on the same day.
From there, the two teams with one-loss meet in a second elimination game, while the 2-0 team can rest. Whichever team emerges from the losers bracket will have to win two games against the unbeaten club to advance. From there, the 16 regional format winners face off in a Super Regional. The teams are bracketed together just like in basketball, so you could easily see a pair of 4-seeds facing off for the right to go to the College World Series. The Super Regionals are a best-of-three series with the winner advancing to the CWS. In the College World Series, teams are split into two brackets of four, and the whole process begins again. The survivors of the two brackets play against each other in a best-of-three series to determine the National Champion.
Oregon State became the ninth school to win at least three national championships by downing Arkansas in three games in the 2018 CWS. The Beavers rallied from the losers bracket to advance to the final, where they again overcame a loss to win the next two games. The Beavers also won back-to-back titles in 2006 and 2007.
Back in the 1960s and 1970s, USC was the dominant program. There were fewer teams at that point, thus it shouldn't be surprising that a national powerhouse was able to stay on top for a long period of time. The Trojans won nine titles during those two decades, including a run of five straight from 1970-1974. USC’s 12 NCAA Tournament championships are five more than LSU, which last year broke a tie with Texas for the second-most DI baseball titles.
LSU has been the team of the 1990s and beyond. The Tigers made the first of their 19 CWS appearances in 1986 with all seven of their championships coming since 1991. They matched Oregon State for the most titles this century winning their third last year. That win moved LSU ahead of Texas for the second-most titles, though the Longhorns have appeared in the CWS a record 38 times, which is 13 more than Miami.
Florida State once again has an opportunity to end its ignominious streak of now 24 appearances without a national championship, though they’ve finished as runner-up three times. The 2024 CWS marks their 17th trip to Omaha since the 2000 season.
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