HONOLULU – The Hawai'i baseball team released its 2024 schedule Thursday, a 53-game slate that includes a 36-game home schedule beginning Feb. 16 with a four-game series against Ole Miss.
Owners of the nation's fifth longest active home winning streak at nine games, UH swept its final three home weekends of 2023 and won 11 of its last 12 home games. The 'Bows finished with their best home record since 1998 at 19-7 and turned in their second straight top-five Big West finish at 18-12 in conference play.
The Rainbow Warriors will play their first four weekend series and 15 of their first 16 games overall in Les Murakami Stadium. After opening with four games against 2022 College World Series champion Rebels from Feb. 16-18, the 'Bows will host perennial ACC power NC State for a three-game series, Feb. 23-25.
After playing a Tuesday game at Hawai'i Hilo on Feb. 28, UH hosts Holy Cross for a four-game series from March 1-4 before welcoming old WAC rival Rice to The Les for a four-game series, March 8-11. Hawai'i will then hit the road to open Big West play with a three-game series at Cal State Bakersfield (March 15-17) before returning home for a three-game nonconference series against another old WAC rival in San Diego State, March 22-24.
The Rainbow Warriors remain at home to play UC Irvine March 28-30 and Hawai'i Pacific on Apr. 2 before hitting the road for back-to-back weekends with three-game series at UC Davis (Apr. 5-7) and UC Santa Barbara (Apr. 12-14) sandwiched around a Tuesday game at Santa Clara on Apr. 9.
Following the road trip, Hawai'i returns to Les Murakami Stadium to host first-year program Chaminade on Apr. 16 before welcoming Cal Poly to LMS from Apr. 19-21. UH then heads back on the road to take on defending Big West champs UC San Diego, Apr. 26-28. The 'Bows return to the islands to host Hawai'i Hilo (Apr. 30), CSUN (May 3-5) and UC Riverside (May 9-12) before closing out the regular season with a series at Long Beach State (May 17-19) and a home series vs. Cal State Fullerton (May 23-25).
