the wolverines received an at-large bid to the 2019 ncaa division i baseball tournament. they defeated creighton in the regional finals and ucla in the super regionals to advance to the college world series for the first time since 1984. they became the first big ten conference team to advance to the college world series since indiana in 2013, and the first big ten conference team to advance to the championship round in the college world series since ohio state in 1966.