2024 Men's College World Series

2024 College World Series
2024 College World Series
Dates	June 14–24
Venue	Charles Schwab Field Omaha
MOP	Dylan Dreiling, Tennessee
Umpires	Scott Cline; Mike Morris; Kellen Levy; David Uyl; Grady Smith; Jake Uhlenhopp; Linus Baker; Shawn Rakos
Broadcast
Television	ABC ; ESPN ; ESPN2 ; ESPN+ (United States – English)
TV announcers	Karl Ravech (play-by-play); Mike Monaco (play-by-play); Eduardo Pérez (analyst); Ben McDonald (analyst); Kyle Peterson (analyst); Chris Burke (analyst); Dani Wexelman (reporter); Kris Budden (reporter)
Radio	NRG Media & Westwood One
Radio announcers	John Bishop (play-by-play); Gary Sharp (analyst); Connor Happer (reporter)

Last updated September 26, 2024

The 2024 NCAA Men's College World Series^{[lower-alpha 1]} was the final stage of the 2024 NCAA Division I baseball tournament. It was scheduled from June 14 through 24 at Charles Schwab Field Omaha in Omaha, Nebraska. This marked the 77th edition of the College World Series and 74th time the event was held in Omaha.

The tournament featured eight teams in two double elimination brackets with the two winners meeting in a best-of-three championship series. With the advancement of Texas A&M and Tennessee to the championship series, a school was assured of winning its first ever College World Series championship, making this the first time a College World Series between two teams with no baseball championships since 2014; of the two, only Tennessee appeared in the championship final, doing so in 1951. The championship final saw Tennessee win its first national championship in program history after losing the first game to Texas A&M and then winning the second and third games.

Background

The top four national seeds qualified for the 2024 College World Series, with Arkansas being the highest ranked national seed to be eliminated, losing in their Fayetteville regional. Of the 8 teams in Omaha, 4 come from the SEC (three from the conference's East Division, one from the West Division), and 4 from the ACC (two from its Coastal Division, two from the Atlantic Division). It is the first time since the tournament expanded to eight teams in 1950 that only two conferences were represented in the College World Series.^[1] The 2024 MCWS became the first time ever that the first two games were capped with a walk-off hit after Tennessee hit a walk off single to defeat Florida State in Game 2. The following day, history continued as Kentucky hit a walk off homerun to become the third walk off hit in as many games.

Participants

School	Conference	Record (Conf)	Head Coach	Super Regional	Previous MCWS Appearances	Previous MCWS Best Finish	Previous MCWS W–L Record
Tennessee	SEC	55–12 (22–8)	Tony Vitello	Knoxville	6 (last: 2023)	2nd (1951)	9–12
Florida State	ACC	47–15 (17–12)	Link Jarrett	Tallahassee	23 (last: 2019)	2nd (1970, 1986, 1999)	30–46
North Carolina		47–14 (22–8)	Scott Forbes	Chapel Hill	11 (last: 2018)	2nd (2006, 2007)	18–23
Virginia		46–15 (18–12)	Brian O'Connor	Charlottesville	6 (last: 2023)	1st (2015)	13–12
Kentucky	SEC	45–14 (22–8)	Nick Mingione	Lexington	None		0–0
NC State	ACC	38–21 (18–11)	Elliott Avent	Athens	3 (last: 2021)	3rd (1968, 2021)	5–5
Florida	SEC	34–28 (13–17)	Kevin O'Sullivan	Clemson	13 (last: 2023)	1st (2017)	25–25
Texas A&M	SEC	49–13 (19–11)	Jim Schlossnagle	College Station	7 (last: 2022)	3rd (2022)	4–14

Bracket

Sources:^[2]^[3]Seeds listed below indicate national seeds only. All times Central.

First round			Second round			Semifinals				Finals

4	North Carolina	3

12	Virginia	2
			4	North Carolina	1

			1	Tennessee	6
1	Tennessee	12

8	Florida State	11
						1	Tennessee	7	−
Bracket 1
						8	Florida State	2	−
12	Virginia	3

8	Florida State	7
			8	Florida State	9

			4	North Carolina	5



										1	Tennessee	5	4	6

										3	Texas A&M	9	1	5
2	Kentucky	5¹⁰

10	NC State	4
			2	Kentucky	1

			3	Texas A&M	5
3	Texas A&M	3

	Florida	2
						3	Texas A&M	6	−
Bracket 2
							Florida	0	−
10	NC State	4

	Florida	5
				Florida	15

			2	Kentucky	4

Game results

Sources:^[3]

Bracket 1

June 14, 2024 1:00 pm CDT (UTC-5) Game 1	No. 4 North Carolina	3–2	No. 12 Virginia	Charles Schwab Field Omaha Attendance: 23,990 Umpires: HP:Scott Cline 1B: Mike Morris 2B: Kellen Levy 3B: David Uyl
	WP: Dalton Pence (5–1)	Box Score	LP: Chase Hungate (7–2)

June 14, 2024 6:00 pm CDT (UTC-5) Game 2	No. 1 Tennessee	12–11	No. 8 Florida State	Charles Schwab Field Omaha Attendance: 25,499 Umpires: HP: Grady Smith 1B: Jake Uhlenhopp 2B: Linus Baker 3B: Shawn Rakos
	WP: Nate Snead (10–2)	Box Score	LP: Brennen Oxford (2–1)
	HR: Moore (33), Tears (19)		HR: Ferrer (20)

June 16, 2024 1:00 pm CDT (UTC-5) Game 5	No. 12 Virginia	3–7	No. 8 Florida State	Charles Schwab Field Omaha Attendance: 29,989 Umpires: HP: Linus Baker 1B: Shawn Rakos 2B: Grady Smith 3B: Jake Uhlenhopp
	LP: Jay Woolfolk (4–2)	Box Score	WP: Carson Dorsey (8–4)
			HR: Ferrer (21), Ferrer (22), Lodise (8)

June 16, 2024 6:00 pm CDT (UTC-5) Game 6	No. 4 North Carolina	1–6	No. 1 Tennessee	Charles Schwab Field Omaha Attendance: 25,140 Umpires: HP:Kellen Levy 1B: David Uhl 2B: Scott Cline 3B: Mike Morris
	LP: Shea Sprague (3–2)	Box Score	WP: Drew Beam (9–2)
	HR: Honeycutt (27)		HR: Tears (20), Chapman (7)

June 18, 2024 1:00 pm CDT (UTC-5) Game 9	No. 8 Florida State	9–5	No. 4 North Carolina	Charles Schwab Field Omaha Attendance: 23,047 Umpires: HP: Mike Morris 1B: Linus Baker 2B: Scott Cline 3B: David Uyl
	WP: Andrew Armstrong (6–0) Sv: Connor Hults (5)	Box Score	LP: Aidan Haugh (4–3)
	HR: Williams (14), West (3)		HR: Honeycutt (28)

June 19, 2024 2:45 pm CDT (UTC-5) Game 11	No. 1 Tennessee	7–2	No. 8 Florida State	Charles Schwab Field Omaha Attendance: 24,696 Umpires: HP: Jake Uhlenhopp 1B: David Uyl 2B: Scott Cline 3B: Shawn Rakos
	WP: Zander Sechrist (5–1)	Box Score	LP: John Abraham (5–2)
	HR: Burke (20)		HR: Cantu (9), Lodise (9)

Bracket 2

June 15, 2024 1:00 pm CDT (UTC-5) Game 3	No. 2 Kentucky	5–4 (F/10)	No. 10 NC State	Charles Schwab Field Omaha Attendance: 24,488 Umpires: HP: Mike Morris 1B:Kellen Levy 2B: David Uyl 3B: Scott Cline
	WP: Johnny Hummel (4–0)	Box Score	LP: Derrick Smith (3–2)
	HR: McCarthy (8)		HR: Makarewicz (23)

June 15, 2024 10:15 pm CDT (UTC-5) Game 4	No. 3 Texas A&M	3–2	Florida	Charles Schwab Field Omaha Attendance: 25,774 Umpires: HP: Jake Uhlenhopp 1B: Linus Baker 2B: Shawn Rakos 3B: Grady Smith
	WP: Chris Cortez (10–3) Sv: Evan Aschenbeck (10)	Box Score	LP: Liam Peterson (3–5)
	HR: none		HR: none

June 17, 2024 1:00 pm CDT (UTC-5) Game 7	No. 10 NC State	4–5	Florida	Charles Schwab Field Omaha Attendance: 23,578 Umpires: HP: Shawn Rakos 1B: Grady Smith 2B: Jake Uhlenhopp 3B: Linus Baker
	LP: Fritton (3–7)	Box Score	WP: Cade Fisher (4–3) Sv: Brandon Neely (5)
	HR: Makarewicz (24)		HR: Caglianone (34), Shelnut (16)

June 17, 2024 6:00 pm CDT (UTC-5) Game 8	No. 2 Kentucky	1–5	No. 3 Texas A&M	Charles Schwab Field Omaha Attendance: 25,327 Umpires: HP: David Uyl 1B: Scott Cline 2B: Mike Morris 3B: Adam Dowdy
	LP: Mason Moore (9–4)	Box Score	WP: Ryan Prager (8–2) Sv: Josh Stewart (1)
	HR: Nicholson (23)		HR: none

June 19, 2024 10:00 am CDT (UTC-5) Game 10	Florida	15–4	No. 2 Kentucky	Charles Schwab Field Omaha Attendance: 23,687 Umpires: HP: Grady Smith 1B: Adam Dowdy 2B: Shawn Rakos 3B: Scott Cline
	WP: Pierce Coppola (1–4)	Box Score	LP: Dominic Niman (8–5)
	HR: Caglianone (35), Donay 2 (14)		HR: Pitre (10)

June 19, 2024 6:55 pm CDT (UTC-5) Game 12	No. 3 Texas A&M	6–0	Florida	Charles Schwab Field Omaha Attendance: 25,429 Umpires: HP: Adam Dowdy 1B: Mike Morris 2B: Grady Smith 3B: Linus Baker
	WP: Justin Lamkin (3–2)	Box Score	LP: Liam Peterson (3–6)
	HR: Sorrell (11)

Finals

Sources:^[4]

Game 1

June 22, 2024 6:30 p.m. (CDT) at Charles Schwab Field Omaha in Omaha, Nebraska
Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
No. 3 Texas A&M	2	0	5	0	0	0	2	0	0	9	13	0
No. 1 Tennessee	0	1	1	0	0	0	3	0	0	5	12	3
WP: Josh Stewart (2−2) LP: Chris Stamos (3−1) Home runs: TAMU: Grahovac (23), Kent (4) TENN: Dreiling (21), Ensley (12) Attendance: 26,498 Notes: HP: Mike Morris 1B: Linus Baker 2B: Grady Smith 3B: Jake Uhlenhopp Boxscore

Game 2

June 23, 2024 1:00 p.m. (CDT) at Charles Schwab Field Omaha in Omaha, Nebraska
Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
No. 1 Tennessee	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	4	7	0
No. 3 Texas A&M	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	7	1
WP: Aaron Combs (3–1) LP: Kaiden Wilson (0–2) Sv: Nate Snead (6) Home runs: TENN: Dreiling (22), Stark (11) TAMU: LaViolette (29) Attendance: 25,987 Notes: HP: Scott Cline 1B: Shawn Rakos 2B: Jake Uhlenhopp 3B: Mike Morris Boxscore

Game 3

June 24, 2024 6:00 p.m. (CDT) at Charles Schwab Field Omaha in Omaha, Nebraska
Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
No. 3 Texas A&M	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	2	5	13	0
No. 1 Tennessee	1	0	2	0	0	0	3	0	0	6	13	1
WP: Zander Sechrist (6–1) LP: Justin Lamkin (3–3) Sv: Aaron Combs (6) Home runs: TAMU: None TENN: Moore (34), Dreiling (23) Attendance: 24,685 Notes: HP: Grady Smith 1B: Jake Uhlenhopp 2B: Scott Cline 3B: David Uyl Boxscore

All-Tournament Team

The following players were members of the Men's College World Series All-Tournament Team.^[5]

Position	Player	School
P	Evan Aschenbeck	Texas A&M
P	Zander Sechrist	Tennessee
C	Jaxson West	Florida State
1B	Jac Caglianone	Florida
2B	Christian Moore	Tennessee
3B	Alec Makarewicz	NC State
SS	Dean Curley	Tennessee
OF	Dylan Dreiling (MOP)	Tennessee
	Jaime Ferrer	Florida State
	Vance Honeycutt	North Carolina
DH	Kaeden Kent	Texas A&M

Notes

↑ While the event's official name has been "NCAA Men's College World Series" since no later than 2008, the 2022 edition was the first in which the NCAA consistently included the word "Men's" in the event branding.

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References

↑ Olson, Eric (June 11, 2024). "College World Series might offer glimpse of future with only SEC and ACC teams in the field". Associated Press.
↑ "2024 NCAA baseball bracket: Men's College World Series scores, schedule". ncaa.com. NCAA. June 10, 2024.
1 2 "2024 Baseball Schedule".
↑ "2024 DI Baseball Championship and Men's College World Series Official Bracket".
↑ "College World Series Most Outstanding Player award history, winners". June 26, 2023. Retrieved June 26, 2023.

External links

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[1] While the event's official name has been "NCAA Men's College World Series" since no later than 2008, the 2022 edition was the first in which the NCAA consistently included the word "Men's" in the event branding.

[2] Olson, Eric (June 11, 2024). "College World Series might offer glimpse of future with only SEC and ACC teams in the field". Associated Press.

[3] "2024 NCAA baseball bracket: Men's College World Series scores, schedule". ncaa.com. NCAA. June 10, 2024.

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[5] "2024 DI Baseball Championship and Men's College World Series Official Bracket".

[6] "College World Series Most Outstanding Player award history, winners". June 26, 2023. Retrieved June 26, 2023.

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