MORGANTOWN — Steve Sabins’ second season as the WVU baseball head coach features a couple of trips to the state of Georgia, a nonconference game against Big 12 foe Arizona and a showdown with TCU to end the regular season.
It just may be the most anticipated baseball season in school history, as the Mountaineers are projected as a top 15 team to start the season, according to Baseball America. WVU is coming off a school-record 44-win season, consecutive trips to a super regional, signed a transfer-portal class ranked among the best in the nation and features one of the Big 12’s top projected pitchers in junior Chase Meyer.
WVU won the Big 12 regular season title last season, its second in three years, and also returns offensive firepower in Armani Guzman and Gavin Kelly.
WVU’s schedule for the 2026 season was released Wednesday, with the season beginning on Feb. 13 with a three-game series at Georgia Southern. WVU will also travel to Georgia to face Kennesaw State in another three-games series beginning Feb. 27.
The 54-game schedule features 19 games against teams that played in the 2025 NCAA tournament, although 16 of those are against Big 12 opponents. That includes a one-game nonconference matchup at Arizona on March 31 that will not count in the Big 12 standings. Columbia, which won the IVY League last season, represents the lone nonconference foe that played in the NCAAs last season. Columbia travels to Morgantown for a three-game series beginning March 6.
WVU is scheduled to play 25 of the 54 games in Morgantown, one more than last season. The home opener is a midweek game against Canisius on Feb. 24.
The schedule also features games against in-state and regional foes Marshall, Maryland, Pitt and Penn State. The Marshall series is a three-game series with one game in Morgantown, one in Huntington and one in Charleston. The Penn State series is also a three-game series with games on each home campus and also a neutral-site game scheduled in Hagerstown, Md.
Pitt and Maryland are just one game each, with both scheduled in Morgantown. The Pitt game is scheduled for April 21. The Maryland game is scheduled for March 10.
According to Baseball America’s preseason top 25, TCU and WVU are the two favorites to win the Big 12 and those two schools will meet in the final three-game series of the regular season that begins May 14 in Morgantown.
WVU will also host Big 12 opponents Kansas State, Houston, UCF and BYU, while traveling to Baylor, Arizona State, Kansas, Cincinnati and Texas Tech. Big 12 play begins March 13, at Baylor.