ESPN Exclusively Presents the 2025 NCAA Men’s College World Series, June 13-23

ESPN’s first pitch through final out presentation of the NCAA Division I Men’s College Baseball Tournament concludes with exclusive coverage of the Men’s College World Series Presented by Capital One, June 13-23 at Charles Schwab Field Omaha. Every pitch of the MCWS will air on ESPN platforms beginning Friday, June 13 in the two double-elimination brackets.

The best-of-three MCWS Finals featuring the winners of the two brackets begins Saturday, June 21, and concludes with the crowning of the national champion. ESPN will air a 60-minute pregame show and unveil the Golden Spikes Award winner – honoring the nation’s top amateur baseball player – leading into Game 1 of the championship series on Saturday, June 21 (7 p.m. ET). Also, for the second year in a row, ABC will air a MCWS game with the Game 2 broadcast at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, June 22.

The winner in Omaha will be the 41^st and final NCAA Team Champion crowned on ESPN platforms during the 2024-25 college sports season. 

ESPN has exclusively presented the Men’s College World Series since 2003 and the company’s history with the event goes back 45 years. ESPN began televising MCWS games in 1980 – within the first year of the original network launch. 

Karl Ravech, the voice of ESPN’s Sunday Night Baseball, and versatile announcer Mike Monaco will share play-by-play duties throughout the MCWS. Former LSU All-American Ben McDonald, two-time All-American and 2001 SEC Player of the Year Chris Burke, former Big Leaguer and Sunday NightBaseball’s Eduardo Pérez and Omaha’s own Kyle Peterson will serve as expert analysts. Reporters Kris Budden, in her sixth season covering the MCWS and Dani Wexelman, making her fourth trip to Omaha, round out ESPN’s MCWS crew. 

Ravech, Burke, Peterson and Budden will serve as the team that calls the best-of-three MCWS Championship Series. 

New this season, ESPN will surround each game of the best-of-three Finals series with live, onsite studio support. Monaco, McDonald and former two-time Men’s College World Series champion and MLB star Jackie Bradley Jr. will make up the studio set, bringing fans in-depth pregame analysis, interviews and more.