2025 NCAA Division I baseball season

The 2025 NCAA Division I baseball season was a college baseball season in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division I level. It began on February 14, 2025, with play progressing through the regular season, various conference tournaments and championship series, and concluded with the 2025 NCAA Division I baseball tournament and 2025 Men's College World Series (MCWS). The MCWS, consisted of the eight remaining teams in the NCAA Tournament and held annually in Omaha, Nebraska at Charles Schwab Field Omaha, ended on June 22, 2025, with LSU winning the title.

Conference realignment

Two schools transitioned from NCAA Division II to Division I after the 2024 season.

• Mercyhurst joined the NEC.
• West Georgia joined the ASUN.

A total of 18 baseball-sponsoring schools changed conferences after the 2024 season.

• Arizona, Arizona State, and Utah joined the Big 12 Conference.
• California and Stanford joined the Atlantic Coast Conference.
• Oklahoma and Texas joined the Southeastern Conference.
• Oregon, UCLA, USC, and Washington joined the Big Ten Conference.
• Kennesaw State joined Conference USA.
• Merrimack and Sacred Heart joined the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference.
• Stephen F. Austin and UT Rio Grande Valley joined the Southland Conference.
• The two remaining members of the Pac-12 Conference, Oregon State and Washington State, respectively became an independent and an associate member of the Mountain West Conference during the Pac-12's effective hiatus.

The 2025 season was the last for six Division I baseball schools in their current conferences.

• Delaware and Missouri State joined Conference USA.
• Grand Canyon joined the Mountain West Conference.
• Seattle joined the West Coast Conference.
• UMass joined the Mid-American Conference.
• Horizon League member Purdue Fort Wayne dropped baseball after the 2025 season.

The 2025 season was also the last for New Haven in the Division II Northeast-10 Conference. The school started a transition to Division I in July 2025 as a new member of the Northeast Conference.

Other news

• March 4 – During the second inning of its 26–6 win over Holy Cross, George Mason set a new Division I record with 23 runs. The previous record of 21 had been shared by three teams — Penn in 1983, Wichita State in 1984, and Valparaiso in 2010.
• The Big West Conference reinstated it's postseason tournament to determine the winner of the automatic bid to the NCAA tournament, the previous conference tournament last held in 1998. This shift marked the first time in the NCAA Tournament Era where every conference held a postseason tournament to decide its champion.

Season outlook

Final Polls

Conference standings

Conference winners and tournaments

Twenty-nine athletic conferences each end their regular seasons with a single-elimination tournament or a double-elimination tournament. The teams in each conference that win their regular season title are given the number one seed in each tournament. The winners of these tournaments receive automatic invitations to the 2025 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.

Men's College World Series

Award winners

Coaching changes

This table lists programs that changed head coaches at any point from the first day of the 2025 season until the day before the first day of the 2026 season.

See also

• 2025 NCAA Division I softball season

References