The scramble to build a competitive schedule, grueling road trips and a team bus snafu highlighted Oregon State's road back to national title contention

Men’s College World Series is set to begin this weekend in Omaha, Nebraska. Before the eight teams remaining in the NCAA baseball tournament begin vying for the championship trophy, here are 25 things to know about the ’25 MCWS.

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Caraway led off the bottom of the first inning with a line drive single to left, jumpstarting a game-changing first inning that featured seven runs and five hits, including back-to-back home runs. And the second of those homers came from McEntire, in his first-career postseason at-bat, when he belted a towering shot to left field.

Twenty-one months ago, Oregon State athletics was dealt what many saw as a death blow when the Pac-12 imploded, leaving them without a conference. The baseball team, unlike any other sport at OSU, opted to play a completely independent schedule this season.

The CWS opens Friday with the Sun Belt Conference's Coastal Carolina (53-11) playing the Big 12's Arizona (44-19) in a rematch of the 2016 finals won by the Chanticleers. No. 8 national seed Oregon State (47-14-1), an independent until the Pac-12 ramps up again in 2026-27, meets the ACC's Louisville (40-22) in the second game.

Oregon State is headed to the College World Series after beating Florida State 14-10 Sunday night to win the Corvallis Super Regional. OSU makes its eighth trip to the CWS in Omaha, a place where the Beavers have feasted. Oregon State won national titles in 2006, 2007 and 2018, and threatened a couple other times.

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I love this College World Series field, writes . We’ve got eight teams of all shapes and sizes, dreamers and big boys, small ball and big budgets. And, mostly,