The final eight teams are now set for ‘The Greatest Show On Dirt’ at Charles Schwab Field in Omaha, Neb. for the 2025 NCAA Division I College World Series from June 13-23 if there is a Game Three of the National Championship Series. The field consists of Coastal Carolina, Arizona, Louisville, UCLA, Arkansas, Oregon State, LSU, and Murray State.
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Two programs from the Southeastern Conference, the University of Arkansas and Louisiana State University, from the Atlantic Coast Conference, the University of Louisville, in their first year of the Big 12 Conference, the University of Arizona, in their first year of the Big Ten Conference, UCLA, in their first-year as an Independent program, Oregon State University, from the Sun Belt Conference, Coastal Carolina University, and from the Missouri Valley Conference, Murray State University are all in the 2025 NCAA Division I CWS.
Murray State under head coach Daniel Skirka in his seventh season, was the No. 4 seed entering the NCAA Tournament in the Oxford Regional and is the fourth program to reach the College World Series with that seed and join Oral Roberts University in 2023, Stony Brook University in 2012 and Fresno State University in 2008 as the only programs to accomplish this historic feat. This is the first appearance for Murray State in the history of their program to reach the CWS.
Oregon State University under head coach Mitch Canham in his sixth season, is the first Independent program to reach the CWS since the University of Miami in 2004.
Oregon State has reached the CWS in 1952, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2013, 2017, and 2018 prior to 2025 and has won the National Championship in 2006, 2007, and 2018.
Coastal Carolina under first season head coach Kevin Schnall will appear in its second CWS and its first since they won the National Title in 2016.
LSU with head coach Jay Johnson in his fourth season has won the CWS in 1991, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2009, and 2023, while appearing in Omaha in 1986, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2008, 2009, 2013, 2015, 2017, and 2023, prior to 2025.
Arkansas, patrolled by head coach Dave Van Horn in his 23rd season, has never won a National Championship and his program has made it to the CWS in 1979, 1985, 1987, 1989, 2004, 2009, 2012, 2015, 2018, 2019, and 2022, before 2025.
UCLA under head coach John Savage in his 21st season, have made it to the CWS in 1969, 1997, 2010, 2012, and 2013, prior to 2025. The lone national title UCLA has was from their last appearance at Charles Schwab Field in 2013.
Louisville has never won a national championship with head coach Dan McDonnell in his 19th season with the program and has helped them reach the CWS in 2007, 2013, 2014, 2017, and 2019.
Arizona with head coach Chip Hale in his fourth season has won the CWS in 1976, 1980, 1986, and 2012 alongside appearing in Omaha in 1954, 1955, 1956, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1963, 1966, 1970, 1976, 1979, 1980, 1985, 1986, 2004, 2012, 2016, and 2021.
All the national seeds that made it to the 2025 CWS are UCLA at No. 15, Oregon State at No. 8, LSU at No. 6, Coastal Carolina at No. 13, and Arkansas at No. 3.
Media Day will be on Thursday, June 12 from 9:10 a.m. CT until 5 p.m. CT with all the eight programs practicing prior to the first day of the CWS on Friday, June 13.
Context For 2025 NCAA Division I CWS
The 2025 NCAA Division I College World Series announced its game start times from the organizers of the event, the College World Series of Omaha Inc. on Jan. 16.
All of the 2025 NCAA Division I CWS will be played at Charles Schwab Field in Omaha, Neb., from June 13-23 if there is a Game Three in the National Championship Series.
The ESPN family networks and ABC will broadcast the entire College World Series until the final out of the NCS.
The NCAA Division I College World Series is a double-elimination event alongside the Regionals and Super Regionals.
The MCWS has been in Omaha since the 1950 event prior to being held in Wichita, Kan., at Lawrence-Dumont Stadium in 1949 and in Kalamazoo, Mich. at Hyames Field from 1947 until 1948.
Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium was home to the MCWS from 1950-2010 prior to Charles Schwab Field opening its doors and the new location for the Creighton University baseball program in 2011.
Last year, the 2024 CWS featured half of the programs in the Power Five from the Southeastern Conference with the University of Kentucky, the University of Florida, Texas A&M University, and the University of Tennessee alongside the Atlantic Coast Conference with North Carolina State University, Florida State University, the University of Virginia and the University of North Carolina, which was the first time ever that the tournament had split the field in half from just two conferences.
No. 1 ranked, Tennessee under head coach Tony Vitello won their first National Championship in the 2024 CWS when they defeated Texas A&M 6-5 in the deciding Game Three.
Tennessee’s Dylan Dreiling was named the Most Outstanding Player at the 2024 CWS after he led the Volunteers with a .542 batting average, three home runs and 11 RBIs. In the championship series, Dreiling went 7-for-12 with scoring four runs and seven piling seven RBIs, while becoming the first player in MCWS history to homer in all three games of the finals.
The scope of the 2025 NCAA Division I season will now have its eyes on the last remaining eight teams that will get to Omaha. This includes the new Power-Four conference structure with the ACC, SEC, Big Ten and Big 12 having new programs, after the PAC-12 fell through on the alignment angle after the 2024 regular season out of the post Power-Five era.
2025 NCAA Division I CWS Schedule
All Games Will Be Played At Charles Schwab Field
All Game Start Times Are Eastern Daylight Time
^Denotes If Necessary
Friday, June 13, 2025
Arizona vs. No. 13 Coastal Carolina – 2 p.m. – ESPN
Louisville vs. No. 8 Oregon State – 7 p.m. – ESPN
Saturday, June 14, 2025
Murray State vs. No. 15 UCLA – 2 p.m. – ESPN
No. 6 LSU vs. No. 3 Arkansas – 7 p.m. – ESPN
Sunday, June 15, 2025
Game 5 – 2 p.m. – ESPN
Game 6 – 7 p.m. – ESPN 2
Monday, June 16, 2025
Game 7 – 2 p.m. – ESPN
Game 8 – 7 p.m. – ESPN
Tuesday, June 17, 2025
Game 9 – 2 p.m. – ESPN
Game 10 – 7 p.m. – ESPN
Wednesday, June 18, 2025
Game 11 – 2 p.m. – ESPN
Thursday, June 19, 2025
^Bracket 1 – TBD – ESPN
^Bracket 2 – TBD – ESPN
National Championship Series Schedule:
Saturday, June 21, 2025
Game 1 – 7 p.m. – ESPN
Sunday, June 22, 2025
Game 2 – 3 p.m. – ABC
Monday, June 23, 2025
^Game 3 – 7 p.m. – ESPN
