With last Sunday’s NCAA Tournament win against Kentucky in the Clemson Regional, West Virginia baseball will be headed to an NCAA Super Regional for the second consecutive season -- success that demonstrates that the Mountaineers have built themselves a recipe for success both in the Big 12 and on the national level.
The past two seasons have seen the Mountaineers go 6-0 in the NCAA Regionals and advance to the college baseball equivalent of the Sweet 16 each year. Going back the past three seasons, West Virginia holds an overall record of 124-58 and the program has earned three consecutive NCAA Tournament bids for the first time since a four-season stretch from 1961-1965.
It shows that former head coach Randy Mazey and current head coach Steve Sabins have combined to put WVU on the college baseball map. In addition to the current two-year streak of making the Super Regional, the program has sent multiple players to the majors under their leadership, including JJ Wetherholt, who was the highest MLB Draft selection in WVU history at seventh overall in 2024. And this is just a sample of the massive strides that Mazey and Sabins have taken for this WVU program.
The program now plays in a state-of-the-art minor league stadium at Kendrick Family Ballpark in Morgantown, and with that stadium has come an increased effort to provide high-end training facilities. The new WVU Baseball Biomechanics and Performance Center opened at the end of March. The new facility will provide WVU baseball players with top sports science data and performance tracking systems.
And Sabins appears to be in a prime position to maintain the success that the Mountaineers have seen over the past three seasons. He will now walk away from the 2025 season having set the record for most wins in a season during his debut year, with multiple Mountaineers set to potentially hear their name called during the 2025 MLB Draft. And the the future looks bright, as well -- the program has already snagged two massive Division 2 transfer commits in Paul Schoenfeld and Chansen Cole. Schoenfeld is a top hitter coming from Colorado Mesa, while Cole is pitcher from Newberry College.
WVU baseball is in a great place right now, and it cannot be overstated that Mountaineer fans have to be excited about the level this WVU baseball program is at.