UC Irvine Anteaters baseball

UC Irvine Anteaters
2024 UC Irvine Anteaters baseball team
Founded1970
UniversityUniversity of California, Irvine
Head coachBen Orloff (6th season)
ConferenceBig West
LocationIrvine, California
Home stadiumCicerone Field at Anteater Ballpark
(Capacity: 2,900)
NicknameAnteaters
ColorsBlue and gold[1]
   
NCAA Tournament champions
1973*, 1974*
College World Series appearances
1973*, 1974*, 2007, 2014
NCAA regional champions
1973*, 1974*, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2014
NCAA Tournament appearances
1970*, 1971*, 1972*, 1973*, 1974*, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2014, 2021, 2024
*at Division II level
Regular season conference champions
2009, 2021

The UC Irvine Anteaters baseball team is the varsity intercollegiate baseball program of the University of California, Irvine. The team's home venue is Cicerone Field at Anteater Ballpark located on campus in Irvine, California. UC Irvine baseball has been a member of the NCAA Division I Big West Conference since the start of the 2002 season which was the Anteaters' first season of play following the university's decision to revive its baseball program following the sport's discontinuation in 1992.

The Anteaters won the College Division national championship in 1973 and the Division II national championship in 1974. Since moving to Division I play they have appeared in the NCAA tournament ten times and the College World Series twice.

  1. ^ UCI Art Sheet (PDF). May 1, 2017. Retrieved November 12, 2017.