DURHAM, N.C. – With a 5-4 victory over Duke in a winner-take-all game, in a best-of-three series, the Murray State baseball team punched its ticket to Omaha for the 2025 Men’s College World Series on Monday night.
 
The Racers are making their first-ever appearances in the MCWS and are the first Missouri Valley Conference program to reach Omaha since Missouri State did so in 2003. Murray State is the 11th different MVC program to compete in the MCWS since the Valley’s first showing in 1950, and it marks the 20th appearance overall.
 
Since the NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament was expanded to 64 teams in 1999, Murray State is just the fourth regional No. 4 seed to make it to Omaha. The Racers join Fresno State (2008), Stony Brook (2012), and most recently, Oral Roberts (2023).
 
The Racers will begin its MCWS run on Saturday, June 14, at 1 p.m. CT against UCLA. The game will air nationally on ESPN with the winner taking on the winner of Arkansas/LSU on Monday at 6 p.m. CT.
 
The MCWS features two double-elimination brackets with the two winners meeting in a best-of-three championship series.