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.
