MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – The West Virginia University Department of Intercollegiate Athletics, along with the Big 12 Conference, has announced the 2026 baseball schedule.
 
The 54-game slate features 25 contests at Wagener Field at Kendrick Family Ballpark as well as 19 meetings with 2025 NCAA Tournament teams. In all, WVU will take on seven squads that reached the postseason.
 
The Mountaineers are coming off a historic season in which they set a new program record with 44 wins while reaching the NCAA Super Regionals for the second consecutive season. West Virginia also won the Big 12 regular season title for the second time in the last three years.
 
West Virginia opens its 135^th year of baseball and second under head coach Steve Sabins with a series at Georgia Southern from Feb. 13-15. The Mountaineers follow that with a weekend series at Liberty from Feb. 20-22, in Lynchburg, Virginia.
 
The Mountaineers open the home slate on Feb. 24 against Canisius, the third straight season that WVU has had a home game in the month of February.
 
West Virginia will then head back to The Peach State to play Kennesaw State from Feb. 27-March 1, taking on the Owls for the second straight season.
 
The Mountaineers return home for six straight beginning with a double midweek against Radford on March 3-4 before hosting defending Ivy League champion Columbia for its first home weekend series from March 6-8. WVU closes out its homestand with a midweek contest against Maryland on March 10.
 
Big 12 play gets started on March 13-15 when the Mountaineers travel to Baylor. WVU returns home after that for a midweek contest against Penn State on March 17 and a series against BYU from March 19-21.
 
After the first of three matchups with Marshall on March 24 in Huntington, the Mountaineers travel to Tempe, Arizona to take on Arizona State from March 27-29 for the first time in program history. WVU concludes its trip out west with a midweek non-conference game at Arizona on March 31.
 
The Mountaineers return home for an Easter weekend series against UCF from April 3-5 followed by a home contest against Marshall on April 7.
 
A trip to Lubbock, Texas to take on Texas Tech from April 10-12 precedes a neutral site game against Penn State at Meritus Park in Hagerstown, Maryland on April 15. The Mountaineers then return home for a weekend series with Houston, April 17-19.
 
The lone edition of the Backyard Brawl will take place on Tuesday, April 21, at Kendrick Family Ballpark.
 
West Virginia hits the road for series at Cincinnati from April 24-26 before the third game of the year against Penn State in State College on April 29.
 
The following two weekends, the Mountaineers take on teams from the Sunflower State with a series at home against Kansas State from May 1-3 and at Kansas from May 8-10. In between is the annual game against Marshall played at GoMart Ballpark in Charleston, West Virginia on May 5.
 
The Mountaineers close out the regular season at home for the second season in a row with a series against TCU from May 14-16.
 
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