URI Baseball Earns Three Seed in Baton Rouge Region, Draws Dallas Baptist Friday in NCAA Tournament

Rhode Island was selected to the 2025 NCAA Baseball Championship as the No. 3 seed in the Baton Rouge Regional, as announced on ESPN2 on Monday afternoon. It is the highest NCAA seed in program history.

The Rams gathered as a team at the Mews Tavern to view the selection show, which announced the championship’s 64-team field. Rhode Island was one of 29 teams to receive an automatic berth through a conference championship, while 35 teams received at-large bids as decided on by the NCAA DI Baseball Committee.

In addition to the third-seeded Rams (38-20), the Baton Rouge Regional will include the SEC’s LSU, Little Rock from the Ohio Valley Conference and Dallas Baptist out of Conference USA. LSU – the No. 6 overall seed – is the site host. The Rams will open NCAA Tournament play Dallas Baptist in its opening game on Friday, May 30 at 7:30 p.m. The game will air on ESPN+.

The regional is a double-elimination bracket. The winner of the Baton Rouge Regional will face the winner of the Clemson Regional in a best-of-three Super Regional. The Clemson Regional includes No. 11 seed Clemson, SC Upstate, Kentucky and West Virginia. The Super Regional will be held from Friday, June 6 through Monday, June 9. The winner of the Super Regional advances to the College Baseball World Series, which is held in Omaha from June 12 through June 23.

Rhody earned the Atlantic 10’s automatic bid to the tournament, winning its third league title in program history on Saturday afternoon at Capital One Park in Tysons, Va. URI went 3-0 as the top seed at the Atlantic 10 Championship, having won the regular season, with wins over No. 4 Davidson (5-3) and No. 3 Saint Louis (8-2) before clinching the title with a 4-1 victory against No. 2 George Mason.

This will be Rhode Island’s third appearance at an NCAA Regional, having gone to the Long Beach Regional, hosted by 12-seed Long Beach State, in 2005, and the Columbia Regional, hosted by 6-seed South Carolina, in 2016.

Baton Rouge Regional
Alex Box Stadium
LSU
Little Rock
Rhode Island
Dallas Baptist

2025 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament Schedule
Regionals: Friday-Monday, May 30-June 2
Super Regionals: Friday-Monday, June 6-9
First day of College World Series games: Friday, June 13
College World Series Finals: Saturday-Monday, June 21-23