MORGANTOWN — The No. 15-seeded West Virginia University baseball team hosts the 2019 NCAA Morgantown Regional today through Monday at Monongalia County Ballpark.

The Mountaineers (37-20) are making their 13th NCAA Championship appearance in program history and first since 2017. WVU earned an at-large berth and will host an NCAA Regional for the second time in school history and first since 1955.

West Virginia, seeded No. 1 in the regional and ranked No. 13 nationally, will host No. 2-seeded and 17th-ranked Texas A&M, No. 3-seed Duke and No. 4-seed Fordham. The Mountaineers open play against Fordham at 8 p.m. today on ESPN3, while Texas A&M and Duke will meet in Friday’s first game, at 4 p.m.

On Saturday, the winners of today’s games will play at 7 p.m., while the losers will meet at 2 p.m. in an elimination game. On Sunday, the winner of Saturday’s elimination game and the loser of Saturday’s winner’s bracket contest will square off at noon, and the winners advance to the Regional Final to play the winner of Saturday’s winner’s bracket game at 6 p.m. If necessary, a seventh game will be played at 4 p.m. Monday.

West Virginia welcomes Texas A&M, Duke and Fordham to Morgantown for the first time, while A&M is the first SEC baseball team to ever play at WVU.

WVU’s last NCAA appearance came in 2017, when the Mountaineers advanced to its third Regional Final in program history in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The last time West Virginia hosted an NCAA event was the 1955 NCAA District III Championship, when Wake Forest won a best-of-three series, 2-1.

The Mountaineers enter the NCAA Championship with a 37-20 record and a 17-5 mark at home. WVU’s 37 wins are tied for its second-most in program history. West Virginia, ranked in the top-25 in each major poll and as high as No. 13, finished fourth in the Big 12, the No. 2-ranked RPI conference in the country, with a 13-11 record.

Texas A&M enters the Morgantown Regional with a 37-21-1 overall record and a 16-13-1 mark in the SEC to finish fourth in the western division. The Aggies are ranked in the top-25 in each major poll and come in as high as No. 17 in this week’s Perfect Game poll.

Duke, an at-large team from the ACC, is making its eighth NCAA Tournament appearance and owns a 16-16 mark. The Blue Devils own a 31-25 overall record and a 15-15 mark in the ACC and placed fourth in the Coastal Division.

Fordham, the Atlantic 10 Conference Tournament champion, is making its eighth NCAA Championship appearance and first since 1998. The Rams posted a 38-22 overall record and went 15-9 in the A-10 to finish fourth. Fordham is receiving votes in this week’s NCBWA poll.