Sooners Selected for NCAA Tournament, Play at Chapel Hill Regional

NORMAN – For the fourth straight season and 42nd time overall, Oklahoma baseball has been selected to the NCAA postseason.

The Sooners received an at-large bid to the 2025 NCAA Baseball Championship, and will begin postseason play at the Chapel Hill Regional in North Carolina. The 64-team bracket was revealed Monday on ESPN2.

"It is a great opportunity," said OU head coach Skip Johnson. "You don't take it for granted. It's something you cherish and remember forever because it's the investment you make in the kids that matter. It's about winning and losing, but it's the investment that they can move on and say they accomplished a goal that we set out at the beginning of the season. We're extremely excited and grateful for the opportunity to be one of the teams in the NCAA tournament."

Oklahoma, the regional No. 2 seed, will play regional No. 3 seed Nebraska at 4 p.m. CT Friday on ESPN+. Regional host and No. 5 national seed North Carolina will face regional four-seed Holy Cross on Friday at 11 a.m. CT.

The winner of the Chapel Hill Regional will face the winner of the Eugene Regional, which features No. 12 national seed Oregon, Arizona, Utah Valley and Cal Poly.

Oklahoma is making its 42nd appearance in an NCAA Regional, fourth straight and fifth under Johnson. The Sooners are 98-84 all-time in NCAA tournament games, have appeared in 11 College World Series (including 2022) and won national championships in 1951 and 1994.

OU holds a 118-94-1 advantage over familiar foe Nebraska, recently beating the Huskers on opening weekend in Arlington in 2024. The Sooners are 2-0 vs. the Tar Heels in program history, both meetings coming in the 2010 NCAA Norman Regional. OU is also 2-0 all-time against Holy Cross in a 2018 midweek series.

This is the fifth time in OU's last seven NCAA tournament appearances that Oklahoma will play a regional at an ACC school. In those five regionals, the Sooners have advanced to Supers twice.

The Sooners are ranked No. 26 in the final NCAA RPI and boast an overall strength of schedule that is ranked 15th in the nation. OU also has nine wins against RPI top-25 teams and 13 top-50 wins.

Oklahoma, which has 12 wins this season against teams in the NCAA Tournament field, won five of its 10 SEC conference series in its inaugural season in the league. The Sooners boast series wins over RPI No. 1 Vanderbilt and RPI No. 12 Ole Miss, along with five RPI top-10 victories.

OU tickets for the Chapel Hill Regional are available via SoonerSports.com/tickets.

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