With the end of the super regional round of the 2025 NCAA tournament, which wrapped up June 9 with Murray State's 5-4 win against Duke, the eight-team field for the College World Series has been set, with festivities beginning on June 13 from Charles Schwab Field in Omaha, Nebraska.

The College World Series opens Friday with two games at Charles Schwab Field in Omaha, Nebraska. The first game pits Coastal Carolina against Arizona in the afternoon and Louisville and Oregon State at night.

Mid-June brings the entire college baseball world to Omaha to close the book on the 2024-2025 athletic calendar. Eight teams have made their way to the College World Series with the hopes of winning a national championship after hard-fought regionals and Super Regionals.

After reaching heights the program never saw before, the Warriors have the experience to continue growing into a national power.

Michael Kelly, a former Omaha World-Herald sports editor who's now retired, looks back on Creighton's unusual road to the College World Series in 1991.

And then there were eight... Now that the Murray State Racers got past the Duke Blue Devils in the final super regional, the field has been set for the Men's Co