The bracket is set for Virginia’s side in the 2024 College World Series. No. 12 Virginia baseball (46-15) will face ACC rival and No. 4 overall seed North Carolina (47-14) in its first game in Omaha on Friday at 2 p.m. ) on ESPN. Also on UVA’s side in the CWS will be another ACC rival and No. 8 overall seed Florida State (47-15), who will face No. 1 overall seed Tennessee (55-12) on Friday at 7 p.m. ET.
Virginia, North Carolina, Florida State and Tennessee will play a double-elimination tournament until one team is left standing to advance to the finals of the 2024 College World Series. See the full College World Series bracket below:
Virginia is making its seventh appearance in the College World Series, its third in the last four years and its second in a row. UVA’s first game will be against a very familiar opponent in UNC, as the two old rivals have faced each other 312 times, but never in the NCAA Tournament. Likewise, Virginia and Florida State have played 94 times, but never in the NCAA tournament.
The first weekend of April, so-No. 10 North Carolina came to Charlottesville for a three-game series at Virginia. The Cavaliers won the first two games of the series, winning 14-11 and 7-2, before the Tar Heels salvaged the final with a 12-7 victory. Hosting the Chapel Hill Regional as the No. 4 overall seed in the NCAA Tournament, UNC defeated LSU in a 4–3 thriller in 10 innings to win the regional title and then outlasted West Virginia in two competitive games in the Super Regional, defeating the Mountaineers 8-6, 2-1 to secure the program’s 12th College World Series appearance and first since 2018.
View the 2024 College World Series bracket, schedule, matchups and TV information here.
The only meeting between Virginia and Florida State this season came in the ACC Tournament, with the Seminoles beating the Cavaliers 12-7. Florida State (47-15) is the No. 8 overall seed and, like UVA, has yet to lose a game in this NCAA Tournament. The Seminoles defeated UConn 24-4 and then beat the Huskies 10-8 in 12 innings to earn their 24th trip to Omaha and first since 2019.
Virginia and Tennessee have met only once before, in the opening game of the 2021 College World Series, when Andrew Abbott struck out 10 batters in six scoreless innings to lead the Cavaliers to a 6-0 victory over the Volunteers. Tennessee (55-12) earned the No. 1 overall seed in the NCAA tournament after winning the vaunted SEC baseball championship. The Volunteers swept the Knoxville Regional and then took 4th place at the Super Regionals. Evansville managed to win Game 2, but Tennessee defeated the Purple Aces 12-1 in Game 3 on Sunday night. Identical to Virginia, Tennessee is making its second consecutive trip to Omaha, its third in the last four years and its seventh in program history.
