Men's College World Series: Everything you need to know before North Carolina vs. Oklahoma in the finals
The Tar Heels and Sooners, both undefeated in Omaha, begin the best-of-three finals on Saturday.
And then there were two.Eight teams arrived in Omaha a week ago with their sights set on a Division I baseball national championship, and two quickly separated themselves once games began. North Carolina and Oklahoma went undefeated on their respective sides of the Men’s College World Series bracket, setting the stage for a best-of-three finals between the Tar Heels and Sooners that begins Saturday at Charles Schwab Field.
This will be these programs’ third meeting in the postseason. In 2010, UNC was sent to the Norman regional and lost twice to the Sooners, who went on to make their first MCWS appearance since 1995. The inverse occurred last year, when the Sooners were eliminated by the Tar Heels at the Chapel Hill regional.
That recent matchup means there are a bunch of holdovers on both rosters who will view this year’s finals as a rematch of sorts. At the same time, the transient nature of college baseball today means there are also a ton of new players who will be competing against one another for the first time.Here’s everything you need to know about the two teams still standing in Omaha.
North Carolina Tar HeelsProgram historyThe Tar Heels are one of the most successful Division I programs that has never won a national title. This is their 13th trip to the College World Series, which, if they fall short again, would be the second-most of any program without a championship, behind only Florida State at 24 (UNC is currently tied with Clemson and Arkansas at 12). It was 20 years ago that UNC came closest to winning it all, and that was an unfortunate (if unlikely) case of deja vu: Both the 2006 and 2007 Tar Heels teams lost in the MCWS Finals to Oregon State.
They’ve returned to Omaha six times since those near-misses (2008, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2018, 2024) but haven’t reached the championship series again until this year. Head coach Scott Forbes has been around for nearly all of these deep postseason runs. His first stint on staff came as an assistant from 1999 to
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