The 2025 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament officially kicked off Friday with some teams pushing towards Omaha and others getting pushed to the brink.
All 16 regionals opened and half of the field has received their first loss. Weather impacted several of the games and a stormy forecast in certain parts of the country could provide some headaches through the rest of the weekend.
The winners of each regional will advance to the super regional round. Those teams will face off in a best-of-three series for a chance to reach the College World Series in Omaha.
Several national seeds elected to take the second game of the day but a few did decide to get there tournament started in the opening game. The first day featured some close games, several lopsided victories and some delays that pushed long days into longer nights.
Here’s a look at how the regionals have shaped up so far.
Nashville Regional
No. 1 Vanderbilt def. Wright State, 4-3
Louisville def. ETSU, 8-3
Austin Regional
No. 2 Texas def. Houston Christian, 7-1
UTSA def. Kansas State, 10-2
Fayetteville Regional
No. 3 Arkansas def. North Dakota State, 6-2
Creighton vs. Kansas, 8 p.m. ET
Auburn Regional
No. 4 Auburn vs. Central Conn St., 7 p.m. ET
Stetson def. NC State, 11-2
Chapel Hill Regional
No. 5 North Carolina def. Holy Cross 4-0
Nebraska vs. Oklahoma, 5:00 p.m. ET
Baton Rouge Regional
No. 6 LSU vs. Little Rock, 6 p.m. ET (Delayed)
Rhode Island vs. Dallas Baptist, 7:30 p.m.
Athens Regional
No. 7 Georgia def. Binghamton, 20-4
Oklahoma State vs. Duke, 6 p.m. ET
Corvallis Regional
No. 8 Oregon St. vs. Saint Mary’s, 8 p.m. ET
USC def. TCU, 13-1
Tallahassee Regional
No. 9 Florida State def. Bethune Cookman, 6-2
Mississippi St. vs Northeastern, 7:30 p.m. ET.
Oxford Regional
No. 10 Ole Miss vs. Murray St, 8 p.m. ET
Georgia Tech def. Western Kentucky, 9-2
Clemson Regional
No. 11 Clemson def. USC Upstate, 7-3
West Virginia def. Kentucky, 4-3
Eugene Regional
No. 12 Oregon vs. Utah Valley, 9 p.m. ET
Arizona def. Cal Poly, 3-2
Conway Regional
No. 13 Coastal Carolina vs. Fairfield, 6 p.m. ET
East Carolina def. Florida, 11-6
Knoxville Regional
No. 14 Tennessee def. Miami (OH), 9-2
Cincinnati def. Wake Forest, 11-6
Los Angeles
No. 15 UCLA def. Fresno St, 19-4
Arizona State vs. UC Irvine, 9 p.m. ET
Hattiesburg Regional
No. 16 Southern Miss. vs. Columbia, 7 p.m. ET
Miami (FL) def. Alabama, 5-3
For a look at the current state of the bracket, please click here.
No. 2 Texas 7, Houston Christian 1
The Longhorns took a step in the right direction after falling short in the SEC Tournament.
The Longhorns were the regular season champions of the SEC but fell in their first game to Tennessee. This dropped them to the No. 2 national seed and put some pressure on the Longhorns to show what they can do.
Texas was held scoreless in the first two innings but two hits and a few errors from Houston Christian led to the Longhorns going up 2-0 in the third. Houston Christian cut the deficit to one in the top of the third and thats score held until the fifth.
In the fifth, Texas really poured it on.
The Longhorns scored five runs on six hits and blew the game open 7-1. They would hold it down from this point and advance to the winner’s side of the bracket.
No. 5 North Carolina, Holy Cross 0
Some timely hitting in the middle innings and a strong performance on the mound guided North Carolina to a quick victory in their regional.
North Carolina produced four runs on seven hits, with all of the runs coming in the fourth-and-fifth innings. The star of the day, however, was starting pitcher Jake Knapp.
Knapp went 8.1 innings and only allowed four hits and three walks while striking out seven. He improved to 13-0 on the season and lowered his ERA to 1.98.
Walker McDuffie would enter in the ninth to close out the game and put the Tar Heels two wins away from a spot in the super regional.
East Carolina 11, Florida 6
The Florida Gators are officially fending off elimination.
The second seed in the Conway Regional could not hold off a relentless East Carolina offense that hung 11 runs on the Gators.
The Pirates went up 2-0 in the first, 4-0 in the second, 6-0 in the third and then 9-0 by the fourth inning. The Gators would put up two runs of their own in the bottom of the fourth but entered the bottom of the right trailing 11-2.
Florida but up a valiant effort in the eighth and ninth to cut the deficit to five but were unable to pull fully back.
Florida will now await the loser of Coastal Carolina and Fairfield and will need to avenge the loss against the Pirates later in the weekend to advance.
No. 1 Vanderbilt 4, Wright State 3
The No. 1 overall seed looked in danger of an upset loss in Friday night’s regional round action.
Wright State hit an RBI double and two solo home runs off Vanderbilt starter JD Thompson to storm out to 3-0 lead through four innings.
The Raiders held onto that lead through seven innings, when Brodie Johnston got the Commodores on the board with a solo home run.
Mike Mancini put Vanderbilt within one run of tying the game with a home run in the bottom of the eighth.
Riley Nelson followed that up with a two-RBI homer to give the Commodores their first lead of the night.
Wright State is now set to play ETSU in a Saturday elimination game at 3 p.m. ET.
Clemson 7, UPST 3
A clutch outing from Cam Cannarella helped Clemson emerge victorious from a back-and-forth battle with USC Upstate.
USC Upstate got off to an early 2-0 lead thanks to a home run from Johnny Sweeney in the second inning and RBI single from Gage Griggs in the fourth.
Clemson answered with a three-run bottom of the fifth to grab the lead before USC Upstate tied the game again at the top of the eighth.
The Spartans didn’t have long to enjoy the even score. A four-run bottom of the eighth, highlighted by a two-RBI homer from Cannarella, put the Tigers ahead for good.
Clemson will advance to face West Virginia in the winner’s bracket on Saturday at 6 p.m. ET.
This article will be updated soon to provide more information and analysis.
