KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Ten sites and 46 teams have been announced as the 2025 NAIA Baseball National Championship Opening Round gets underway May 12, ending May 15, with trips to the Avista-NAIA World Series on the line.
Six brackets with five teams and four more with four make up the 68th edition of the championship, which culminates in Lewiston, Idaho, for the 33rd time overall, May 23-31. The teams in this season’s championship are a combined 1711-661-3 (.721), and 40 have made at least one appearance in the championship field in their history.
The Cascade Collegiate Conference saw three teams earn a spot to the Opening Round of the 2025 NAIA Baseball Championship Tournament. University of British Columbia qualified as the CCC tournament runner up and will head to Hattiesburg Miss., to face Oklahoma Wesleyan as the third seed. Lewis-Clark State College entered as the CCC Tournament Champions with a host site berth, ready to face Wayland Baptist (Texas) as the third seed. Oregon Tech will also be in Lewiston, Idaho, for the programs first ever national postseason run. OIT received an at-large bid and will face Dickinson State (N.D.) as the fourth seed.
This year’s championship field includes 30 automatic qualifiers, 15 at-large selections, and one host bid. Automatic berths were given to teams that either won their respective conference tournament title or regular-season championship, or finished runner-up at the conference tournament or regular season as determined by each conference's qualification plan. The at-large bids were determined by the NAIA Baseball National Selection Committee.
All championship opening round games will be video-streamed by the host.
| INSTITUTION |
RECORD |
HOW THEY QUALIFIED |
APPEARANCES |
LAST TIME |
| Lewis-Clark State (Idaho) |
35-14 |
Cascade Collegiate Conference Tournament Champion and World Series Host |
4 |
2024 |
| British Columbia |
36-17 |
Cascade Collegiate Conference Tournament Runner-Up |
15 |
2024 |
| Oregon Tech |
38-14 |
At-Large |
1 |
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