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Kansas Baseball to Play in Seventh NCAA Regional; Hosting at Hoglund Ballpark
5/25/2026 2:56:00 PM | Baseball
LAWRENCE, Kan. – Kansas Baseball has been selected for the NCAA Division I Baseball Championship for the seventh time in program history and will host a regional at Hoglund Ballpark for the first time in school history.
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KU received the No. 15 national seed and will play Northeastern on Friday at 12 p.m. CT on ESPN+ at Hoglund Ballpark. Arkansas and Missouri State are the other two teams in the regional and will play Friday at 5 p.m. CT on ESPN+.
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The Big 12 regular season and Big 12 Tournament Champions will be playing in their seventh regional in program history. Head coach Dan Fitzgerald has led Kansas to back-to-back NCAA Regionals for the second time ever and the first since the 1993 and 1994 seasons.
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"It's surreal," Fitzgerald said. "To see the stuff we're doing out at the ballpark in preparation for it is amazing, and also not surprising. It's something if you would have asked four years ago was this something way down on the list of something we would like to do, obviously I would have said yes. The day-by-day approach has not really allowed me to think forward to this. Then, a couple weeks ago it started becoming a reality. I'm so excited for the world to experience Hoglund when it's packed out. It's so fun to be back home."
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Kansas is the No. 1 seed in the Lawrence Regional, Arkansas is the No. 2 seed, Missouri State is the No. 3 seed and Northeastern is the No. 4 seed.
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The Jayhawks play Northeastern in the first game of the Lawrence Regional. The Huskies won the Coastal Athletic Association (CAA) Tournament for the second consecutive year to punch their ticket. After dropping the first game of the tournament, Northeastern won the next four games to claim its second straight CAA Tournament title. Northeastern (38-20, 22-8 CAA) leads the country with 210 stolen bases this season. The next closest team in Division I baseball is 29 stolen bases behind.
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Kansas and Northeastern have only played once before in baseball. That matchup came on Feb. 28, 2015 in the Snowbird Classic in Port Charlotte, Florida. Kansas won that game by a score of 6-4.
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KU won the Big 12 title outright this season with 22 league wins. It was the first regular season conference championship for Kansas since 1949 as a member of the Big Seven and only the fourth in school history (1923, 1924, 1949). The Jayhawks followed that up with the second Big 12 Tournament title in program history, and the first since 2006.
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Kansas will enter the NCAA Tournament with a 42-16 overall record, including a 22-8 mark in Big 12 play this season. The 42 wins are the fourth most in school history and the 22 conference victories set a school record. Kansas won seven consecutive Big 12 series and is the first Big 12 team with 20 conference wins in back-to-back seasons since Nebraska in 2000 and 2001.
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This season, Fitzgerald won Big 12 Coach of the Year for a second consecutive season. Fitzgerald is the first back-to-back Big 12 Coach of the Year since Augie Garrido did so at Texas in 2010 and 2011. He is also the first Kansas coach in program history to be named a coach of the year in two separate seasons.
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In addition to Fitzgerald, Kansas had seven players earn All-Big 12 accolades. Tyson LeBlanc and Boede Rahe earned All-Big 12 First Team, Cade Baldridge, Josh Dykhoff and Dominic Voegele were All-Big 12 Second Team selections and Brady Ballinger and Mason Cook received All-Big 12 Honorable Mention.
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The structure of an NCAA Regional is four teams are sent to a campus site and play in a double-elimination format. The winner of the Lawrence Regional will move on to play in super regionals next weekend against the winner of the Georgia Tech Regional in a three-game series for the right to play in the College World Series.
GAME SCHEDULE
Friday, May 29
Game 1: Northeastern vs. Kansas – 12 p.m. CT (ESPN+)
Game 2: Missouri State vs. Arkansas – 5 p.m. CT (ESPN+)
Saturday, May 30
Game 3: Game 1 Loser vs. Game 2 Loser – 12 p.m. CT
Game 4: Game 1 Winner vs. Game 2 Winner – 5 p.m. CT
Sunday, May 31
Game 5: Game 3 Winner vs. Game 4 Loser – 12 p.m. CT
Game 6: Game 5 Winner vs. Game 4 Winner – 5 p.m. CT
Monday, June 1 (if necessary)
Game 7: TBD
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KU received the No. 15 national seed and will play Northeastern on Friday at 12 p.m. CT on ESPN+ at Hoglund Ballpark. Arkansas and Missouri State are the other two teams in the regional and will play Friday at 5 p.m. CT on ESPN+.
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The Big 12 regular season and Big 12 Tournament Champions will be playing in their seventh regional in program history. Head coach Dan Fitzgerald has led Kansas to back-to-back NCAA Regionals for the second time ever and the first since the 1993 and 1994 seasons.
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"It's surreal," Fitzgerald said. "To see the stuff we're doing out at the ballpark in preparation for it is amazing, and also not surprising. It's something if you would have asked four years ago was this something way down on the list of something we would like to do, obviously I would have said yes. The day-by-day approach has not really allowed me to think forward to this. Then, a couple weeks ago it started becoming a reality. I'm so excited for the world to experience Hoglund when it's packed out. It's so fun to be back home."
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Kansas is the No. 1 seed in the Lawrence Regional, Arkansas is the No. 2 seed, Missouri State is the No. 3 seed and Northeastern is the No. 4 seed.
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The Jayhawks play Northeastern in the first game of the Lawrence Regional. The Huskies won the Coastal Athletic Association (CAA) Tournament for the second consecutive year to punch their ticket. After dropping the first game of the tournament, Northeastern won the next four games to claim its second straight CAA Tournament title. Northeastern (38-20, 22-8 CAA) leads the country with 210 stolen bases this season. The next closest team in Division I baseball is 29 stolen bases behind.
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Kansas and Northeastern have only played once before in baseball. That matchup came on Feb. 28, 2015 in the Snowbird Classic in Port Charlotte, Florida. Kansas won that game by a score of 6-4.
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KU won the Big 12 title outright this season with 22 league wins. It was the first regular season conference championship for Kansas since 1949 as a member of the Big Seven and only the fourth in school history (1923, 1924, 1949). The Jayhawks followed that up with the second Big 12 Tournament title in program history, and the first since 2006.
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Kansas will enter the NCAA Tournament with a 42-16 overall record, including a 22-8 mark in Big 12 play this season. The 42 wins are the fourth most in school history and the 22 conference victories set a school record. Kansas won seven consecutive Big 12 series and is the first Big 12 team with 20 conference wins in back-to-back seasons since Nebraska in 2000 and 2001.
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This season, Fitzgerald won Big 12 Coach of the Year for a second consecutive season. Fitzgerald is the first back-to-back Big 12 Coach of the Year since Augie Garrido did so at Texas in 2010 and 2011. He is also the first Kansas coach in program history to be named a coach of the year in two separate seasons.
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In addition to Fitzgerald, Kansas had seven players earn All-Big 12 accolades. Tyson LeBlanc and Boede Rahe earned All-Big 12 First Team, Cade Baldridge, Josh Dykhoff and Dominic Voegele were All-Big 12 Second Team selections and Brady Ballinger and Mason Cook received All-Big 12 Honorable Mention.
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The structure of an NCAA Regional is four teams are sent to a campus site and play in a double-elimination format. The winner of the Lawrence Regional will move on to play in super regionals next weekend against the winner of the Georgia Tech Regional in a three-game series for the right to play in the College World Series.
GAME SCHEDULE
Friday, May 29
Game 1: Northeastern vs. Kansas – 12 p.m. CT (ESPN+)
Game 2: Missouri State vs. Arkansas – 5 p.m. CT (ESPN+)
Saturday, May 30
Game 3: Game 1 Loser vs. Game 2 Loser – 12 p.m. CT
Game 4: Game 1 Winner vs. Game 2 Winner – 5 p.m. CT
Sunday, May 31
Game 5: Game 3 Winner vs. Game 4 Loser – 12 p.m. CT
Game 6: Game 5 Winner vs. Game 4 Winner – 5 p.m. CT
Monday, June 1 (if necessary)
Game 7: TBD
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