Who is in the 2025 College World Series bracket? Look at the teams that have qualified for CWS, with a field that includes some unseeded surprises.

The College World Series officially gets underway today when the Arizona Wildcats face the Coastal Carolina Chanticleers in Game 1 of the double-elimination round.

When Chip Hale looked at the team he and his staff assembled last fall he felt it was one that could get Arizona back to the College World Series. The belief was so strong that T-shirts were made and a banner hung in the clubhouse about the Wildcats’ ‘Chasing Five,

In baseball, that flashback-inducing opponent is Coastal Carolina. The Wildcats met the Chanticleers in the 2016 College World Series championship series and, after taking the opening game, dropped the next two to painfully fall short of the fifth national title in school history.

Six conferences and an independent will be represented at the College World Series. None were among the final eight in Omaha a year ago.