First Glances
- It’s time to celebrate our national pastime in its purest form.
It requires nearly one-hundred fifty baseball games across the next month to determine a national champion. For those unfamiliar with the format, the first 100 plus of those will take place this coming weekend as four team double-elimination tournaments hosted at sixteen regional sites spread out across the country. These regional sites are earned across the course of a long and grueling regular season. The sixteen teams emerging from this gauntlet will square off in eight three game series, also held on campus sites, to determine who survives and advances on the “Road To Omaha.” Those who prevail meet in a pair of four team double-elimination brackets in America’s heartland. Once two teams are left standing, they will battle in a best of three National Championship Series.
College baseball’s pursuit of a championship is a four week journey unlike anything else in sport. It builds toward a ten day celebration in Omaha known simply as the College World Series.
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