The 2026 NCAA college baseball season has officially concluded, as a champion was crowned on June 22 in Omaha. Oklahoma, a team that didn’t have the hottest team entering the tourney, wound up catching fire and ultimately took a national title to Norman.

OU wins third national title

For Oklahoma, it is the school’s third national title and first since 1994. It also kept the NCAA Division I baseball championship in the SEC, as the Southeastern Conference has won it every single season since 2019 (Oregon State won in 2018).

The Sooners won the national title after the school took the decisive third & final game of the College World Series 13-2 over North Carolina. Oklahoma’s scoring was concluded by Kyle Branch‘s three-run home run in the eighth. However, Jaxon Willits, Dayton Tockey, and Dasan Harris were among the contributors throughout that game, as well.

It capped off a College World Series that included eight teams, and a pool that looked very different than what was expected. Top seed UCLA was knocked out in the Regionals, as was Georgia Tech. The Yellow Jackets fell victim to Oklahoma after the Sooners came back to win the final game of the Atlanta Regional.

After taking the Lawrence Super Regionals in Kansas, Oklahoma was the lone school not to be a top-16 seed in their specific pool. Alabama, Texas, and defending SEC champion Georgia were but all three were knocked.

North Carolina came through the top half of the bracket that featured West Virginia, Troy, and Ole Miss. Ole Miss was the school that won the 2022 College World Series, defeating the Oklahoma Sooners in the final.

The Sooners won Game 1 of the final on June 20. North Carolina, on the heels of terrific pitching from Ryan Lynch and Caden Glauber, won the second game before OU took Game 3.

What’s more impressive: all three of the starters in the CWS final for Oklahoma were freshmen (Cord Rager, Xander Mercurius, Nick Wesloski).

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