COLUMBIA, Mo. – Missouri Baseball Head Coach Kerrick Jackson has revealed the Tigers’ complete 2024 schedule, which features dates with eight different NCAA Regional qualifiers from a year ago, including three teams that advanced to the College World Series.
Mizzou’s regular-season slate will consist of 56 total games (29 home, 27 away/neutral), with the season opener set for Feb. 16, when the Tigers begin an eight-game swing on the West Coast with a four-game set against Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, Calif. Following that, MU will extend its season-opening stay in California, competing in the Tony Gwynn Legacy event in San Diego.
“We’re really excited about our schedule,” Jackson said. “The idea is to put together a quality non-conference schedule in order to prepare for SEC play. We start off on the West Coast against some quality teams. Cal Poly is a team that, year-in and year-out, is very competitive. We’ll also be playing in the Tony Gwynn Legacy event against some quality teams there as well. Overall, we’ll see some really strong competition that should prepare us for the conference season.”
The Tigers’ 2024 campaign will feature at least 24 games against 2023 NCAA Tournament teams, highlighted by five home series versus Southeastern Conference opponents who made postseason appearances this past spring. Three of those clubs—LSU, Florida and Tennessee—advanced to Omaha, with LSU emerging as the 2023 Division I National Champion after besting Florida in the title series.
The Tigers open their schedule with a two-week road swing that will see Mizzou play its first eight games of the season on the West Coast. Following the aforementioned three-game series with Cal Poly, Mizzou travels to San Diego for a total of four games against Cal State Bakersfield, San Diego State and UC San Diego as part of the Tony Gwynn Legacy (Feb. 22-24) event.
The Tigers return to Columbia for a nine-game home stand, hosting Southeast Missouri (Feb. 27) to open the home portion of their schedule. Mizzou welcomes Northern Kentucky (March 1-3) and Purdue Fort Wayne (March 8-10) for a pair of three-game series, sandwiching a midweek contest…
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