Coastal Carolina and Arizona baseball face off in the College World Series today. Here's where to watch and start time:

Beyond the immense significance the moment carries for Hale and his players, this year’s CWS is a chance for Arizona to add to its already illustrious baseball tradition. Heres

Arizona Baseball's opens up the College World Series with a highly-anticipated matchup against Coastal Carolina.

The University of Arizona baseball team (44-19) secured two of three games from the No. 1 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the Chapel Hill Super Regional from June 7-9, punching its ticket to the College World Series for the first time since 2021 as the Wildcats head back to Omaha,

There are 21 former Arizona high school baseball players among the eight teams in the College World Series. Here are five who could stand out.

January 1984: After Hale turned down a Congressional appointment to attend and play football at the Naval Academy, as well as an offer to play baseball at USC, he enrolled at Arizona. UA coach Jerry Kindall elected to start Hale on opening day, against Cal State-Dominguez Hills.

Former Arizona shortstop Clark Crist suffered a stroke in September 2024. His 1980 national champion teammates stood by him as he relearned to walk.

The Chanticleers enter the College World Series on a nation-best 23-game win streak. Coastal boasts the second-best team ERA in the country (3.21), and junior catcher Caden Bodine (.332 batting average, 75 hits) is MLB.com ’s No. 38 draft prospect.

Six conferences and an independent will be represented at the College World Series, and none of the teams were among the final eight in Omaha a year ago. In 2024, the SEC and ACC had four teams apiece in the CWS and all the talk was that college baseball would forevermore be dominated by the schools in those conferences that invest the most in the sport in scholarships,