The 2022 NCAA Men's College World Series was the final stage of the 2022 NCAA Division I baseball tournament. It was scheduled from June 17 through 27 at Charles Schwab Field Omaha in Omaha, Nebraska, but ended on June 26. This marked the 75th edition of the College World Series and 72nd time the event was held in Omaha. The NCAA has since changed the title of this story to "2022 Division I men's College World Series format change announced", reflecting its current use of the word "Men's" in conjunction with this event.
The tournament featured eight teams in two double elimination brackets with the two winners meeting in a best-of-three championship series.
Background The 2022 edition of the NCAA Men's College World Series featured four teams from the SEC, all from the conference's West Division; two from the Big 12, both of which announced they would join the SEC no later than the 2025–26 school year and were later confirmed as 2024–25 entrants; and one each from the ACC and Pac-12. Most of these teams advanced to Omaha by winning on the road, as only two were national seeds. The top national seed, Tennessee, was eliminated in its Super Regional by Notre Dame in a series that went the full three games. In the MCWS itself, the #2 national seed Stanford and Texas quickly went two-and-out, with the Cardinal first getting destroyed by Arkansas 17–2 then losing handily to Auburn. The Longhorns lost their opener to Notre Dame, then exited after being hammered by the #5 national seed, archrival Texas A&M. A&M reached the Bracket 1 final, losing there to Oklahoma.
Ole Miss went 5–1 at the MCWS, beating the Auburn Tigers once and the Arkansas Razorbacks twice in three matchups to advance to the championship series, where they swept Oklahoma to win the World Series. Ole Miss defeated the Sooners 10–3 in game 1 and 4–2 in game 2 to win the MCWS title.
Participants SchoolConferenceRecord (Conf)Head CoachSuper RegionalPrevious CWS AppearancesCWS Best FinishCWS W–L RecordACC40–15 (16–11)Link JarrettKnoxville2(last: 2002)4th(1957)3–4OklahomaBig 1242–22 (15–9)Skip JohnsonBlacksburg10(last: 2010)1st(1951, 1994)13–14Texas A&MSEC42–18 (19–11)Jim SchlossnagleCollege Station6(last: 2017)5th(1951, 1993)2–12 Texas Big 12 47–20 (14–10) Greenville 37(last: 2021) 1st 88–63StanfordPac–1247–16 (21–9)David EsquerStanford17(last: 2021)1st(1987, 1988)41–31ArkansasSEC43–19 (18–12)Dave Van HornChapel Hill10(last: 2019)2nd(1979, 2018)15–20Ole MissSEC37–22 (14–16)Mike BiancoHattiesburg5(last: 2014)3rd(1956, 2014)5-10AuburnSEC42–20 (16–13)Butch ThompsonCorvallis5(last: 2019)4th(1967)3–10
Bracket Seeds listed below indicate national seeds only
Game results
Bracket 1
Bracket 2
Finals
Game 1
Game 2
All-Tournament Team The following players were members of the Men's College World Series All-Tournament Team. Position Player School P Dylan DeLucia (MOP) Ole Miss Cade Horton Oklahoma C Michael Turner Arkansas 1B Tim ElkoOle Miss 2B Jared Miller Notre Dame 3B Justin Bench Ole Miss SS Peyton Graham Oklahoma OF Kevin Graham Ole Miss Tanner Tredaway Oklahoma Calvin Harris Ole Miss DH Kemp Alderman Ole Miss
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References
External links NCAA Baseball Championship Information