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Duke Opens 2025 Road to Omaha in Athens against Oklahoma State
5/29/2025 5:09:00 PM | Baseball
DURHAM, N.C. – Duke baseball (37-19) opens the 2025 Athens Regional on Friday evening, taking on No. 3 seed Oklahoma State (28-23) at 6 p.m. from Foley Field. Friday marks the 12th NCAA Tournament appearance for the Blue Devils and the third consecutive season in the field.
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The Blue Devils are 15-14 under head coach Chris Pollard in the NCAA Tournament, advancing to the Super Regionals in 2018, 2019, and 2023. Duke and Oklahoma State have met twice in program history and once in the postseason.
No. 1 Seed Georgia
No. 3 Seed Oklahoma State
No. 4 Seed Binghampton
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The Blue Devils are 15-14 under head coach Chris Pollard in the NCAA Tournament, advancing to the Super Regionals in 2018, 2019, and 2023. Duke and Oklahoma State have met twice in program history and once in the postseason.
No. 1 Seed Georgia
- For the second consecutive year and eighth time in school history, Georgia serves as one of 16 regional hosts for the 2025 NCAA Baseball Tournament. In his second year at the helm, Wes Johnson has guided the Bulldogs to a national seed, becoming the first UGA baseball coach to take his first two teams to the NCAA Tournament. His combined mark of 85-32 (35-25 SEC) is the most overall victories and SEC wins by a coach in their first two seasons in Georgia baseball history. On the roster, a friendly face stands in the opposite dugout this weekend, as former Duke outfielder Devin Obee joined the Bulldogs as a graduate transfer this offseason.
No. 3 Seed Oklahoma State
- One of the last four teams to qualify for the tournament, Oklahoma State appears in its 12th consecutive NCAA Tournament and 50th overall, tied for the most all-time with Miami; only Texas (64) and Florida State (61) have more appearances. OSU's 12 consecutive regional appearances is the fourth-longest streak in the country behind Vanderbilt, LSU, and Florida. Josh Holliday's squad enters the weekend winners of 10 of their last 12 contests, including giving Kansas all they could handle in the second round of the Big 12 tournament. The Cowboys are batting .254 as a squad, the lowest in the regional, but hold the best ERA with a staff producing a mark of 4.33 on the mound.Â
No. 4 Seed Binghampton
- After a dramatic 6-5 extra-inning victory over the defending AEC champion Bryant, Binghamton returns to the NCAA Tournament for the sixth time in the last 16 years and second in the previous four, previously appearing at the 2022 Stanford Regional. The Bearcats lead the regional with a team average of .294 at the plate, led by senior catcher Zach Rogacki, who posts a .360 average with 71 hits in his final season. Tom Sinicki's squad enters the regional in Athens as winners of seven of their last nine games, including scoring 59 runs during their American East Championship run last week in Orono, Maine.Â
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- The Blue Devils return to a memorable regional this weekend in Athens and look to channel some of the magic at Foley Field. In 2018, the Blue Devils posted the best season in program history to date, winning 45 games, 18 ACC games, and securing the first Super Regional appearance in program history. That run to Supers began in Athens, as Duke lost its opening game to Troy, 6-0. Facing elimination on Saturday, Duke went out and downed Campbell 16-8, before putting up 15 runs against Troy to stay alive on Sunday. On Monday, needing two wins to advance, the Blue Devils thumped host Georgia 8-5 and 8-4 in consecutive games to punch their ticket to the Supers and win the program's first Regional Championship. It was the first for head coach Chris Pollard, who now has three regional wins and seven NCAA Tournament appearances in program history, the most by a head coach at Duke.
- Duke and Oklahoma State have met just two times before Friday evening in Athens, and once in the postseason. The most recent matchup came in 2003, when the Cowboys defeated the Blue Devils 2-1 in Durham. The last time these two sides met in the postseason was 1961 in Omaha, Nebraska, at the College World Series, the last time Duke appeared in Omaha.
- Sitting with 37 wins on the season and heading into regional weekend, Duke has its eyes set on the 40-win mark for the third time in program history. The Blue Devils have won 40-plus games twice (45 – 2018, 40 – 2024), both under head coach Chris Pollard. Duke has never registered back-to-back seasons with 40 or more victories and looks to tally that mark this postseason.
- Duke continues a trend of scoring throughout the middle innings of games once again this season, scoring 195 of their 475 (41.0%) runs this season from the fourth to the sixth inning.
- In May, Duke has been a force on the diamond, averaging 9.72 runs per game in the last 11 games played. In that stretch, the Blue Devils have scored 10-plus runs five times, including four run-rule victories, and a 10-run inning at No. 9 Clemson to take the middle game 15-10.
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