OU Baseball: Oklahoma Sent to Chapel Hill Regional for 2025 NCAA Tourney

The Sooners will begin the 2025 NCAA Tournament in the Chapel Hill Regional, along with North Carolina, Nebraska and Holy Cross.

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NORMAN — Oklahoma baseball’s NCAA Tournament fate has been revealed.

The Sooners are a 2-seed seed in the Chapel Hill Regional, hosted by North Carolina. The other two teams in that regional are Nebraska and Holy Cross.

"It is a great opportunity," Oklahoma coach Skip Johnson said. "You don’t take it for granted. It’s something that you cherish and remember forever because it’s an investment that you make in the kids that matters. It’s about winning and losing, but it’s about accomplishing something. We’re extremely excited and extremely grateful for the opportunity to be one of the teams in the NCAAs."

Oklahoma (35-20, 14-16 SEC) enters the NCAA Tournament after winning two games at the SEC Tournament. The Sooners, seeded 12th, beat Kentucky in their first round game before beating 5-seed Georgia in the second round. OU fell to Vanderbilt in the quarterfinals.

Before that, the Sooners were in a slump. Oklahoma lost six of its final seven regular-season games, losing the final game of its home series against Ole Miss, getting swept on the road by Kentucky and dropping two of three against Texas at home.

While OU struggled in its 6-1 loss to Vanderbilt to close its SEC Tournament, the Sooners showed flashes of brilliance in Hoover, AL.

"Even with how the last game went, we know that we’re capable of hitting balls hard, driving in runs and holding people to few runs," pitcher Kyson Witherspoon said. "We’re confident."

Johnson added, "Now we’re 0-0 again. We finished our season, started in the conference tournament, and I think our conference tournament prepares us for Omaha. It’s almost identical to what happens in Omaha."

North Carolina is the No. 5 overall national seed and one of eight teams that will host Super Regionals if it wins its regional.

The Tar Heels are the highest-ranked non-SEC squad in the field of 64. The top four seeds are No. 1 Vanderbilt, No. 2 Texas, No. 3 Arkansas and No. 4 Auburn.

UNC (42-12, 18-11 ACC) finished third in the Atlantic Coast Conference during the regular season. The Tar Heels won three games at the ACC Tournament after winning seven of their final nine regular-season contests.

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Nebraska was a bubble team after finishing eighth in the Big Ten during the regular season. But the Cornhuskers (32-27, 15-15) left no doubt about their postseason status, winning the conference tournament and becoming the lowest-seeded team to win the conference tourney.

As the 3-seed in the regional, the Cornhuskers will be OU's first opponent.

"Great program, great coaches," Johnson said of the Cornhuskers. "They’ll be a great opportunity for us. They’re really good. They’ve been playing really good lately."

Regionals are played in double-elimination format. The winner of each regional advances to the best-of-three Super Regionals, hosted at the higher-seeded team’s campus. Super Regional series winners advance to the eight-team College World Series in Omaha.

The Chapel Hill Regional will begin on Friday.

The Sooners’ game against Nebraska will be the second of the regional, following the game featuring North Carolina and Holy Cross. First pitch of OU-Nebraska is slated for 4 p.m.