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RICHMOND, Va. – VCU Baseball head coach Shawn Stiffler announced a competitive 56-game schedule for the 2022 season Monday afternoon, featuring eight opponents that competed in the 2021 NCAA Baseball Tournament.
 
"Our schedule this year has great in-state rivalries, great Atlantic 10 rivalries, College World Series opponents, Super Regional opponents, and 15 total games against teams that were in the NCAA Championship field in the spring." Stiffler said. "This slate should challenge our young team to get ready for A-10 play."
 
Three of those teams (Old Dominion, Ole Miss, and East Carolina) were national seeds for the 2021 NCAA Regionals, while a fourth opponent, Virginia, advanced to the College World Series. 
 
The Rams open the season with a three-game tournament at Wake Forest in Winston-Salem, N.C., playing Rider, Lafayette, and the host Demon Deacons from Feb. 18-20. Rider is the reigning Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference champion.
 
VCU's first midweek opponent is Longwood, one of nine in-state foes on the schedule. The Rams travel to Farmville, Va., on Feb. 22, while the Lancers make the return trip to The Diamond on March 22.
 
The Rams travel to Oxford, Miss., for a three-game series with SEC foe Ole Miss from Feb. 25-27. The Rebels won the Oxford Regional in the spring to advance to the Super Regionals. VCU hosts its first home game against Old Dominion, the reigning Conference-USA champion, on March 1, with the return trip to Norfolk, Va., slated for May 10. Former VCU head coach Tony Guzzo (1983-94) is on the Monarchs staff.
 
VCU hosts a trio of home games from March 4-6, facing Lafayette, Princeton, and Rutgers as a part of the Central Virginia Classic. The Rams will play a home-and-home with Maryland on March 8 and 9, playing in College Park, Md., on Tuesday and at The Diamond on Wednesday. The Terrapins were an NCAA Regionals team in the spring, advancing to the Greenville Regional final.
 
Home series against MAAC opponents Monmouth (March 11-13) and Quinnipiac (March 18-20) bookend a midweek bout against Liberty, who advanced to the Knoxville Regional final, on March 15.
 
The Rams play at reigning Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference champion Norfolk State on March 23, before a weekend series at Greenville Regional champion East Carolina from March 25-27. VCU hosts William & Mary, now coached by former VCU pitching coach Mike McRae, on March 29 and plays the Tribe in Williamsburg, Va., on April 26.
 
VCU's Atlantic 10 schedule features home series against Davidson (April 8-10), Saint Joseph's (April 22-24), George Washington (May 6-8), and Fordham (May 19-21). The Rams will go on the road to face George Mason (April 1-3), Richmond (April 15-17), Dayton (April 29-May 1) and Massachusetts (May 13-15).
 
The Rams' non-conference schedule is rounded out by home-and-homes with VMI (April 5 at The Diamond, April 12 in Lexington, Va.) and Virginia (April 19 at The Diamond, May 3 at Charlottesville, Va.).
 
VCU earned the Atlantic 10's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament by capturing the 2021 A-10 championship, the seventh conference tournament title in program history. The Rams, who also won the A-10 regular season crown, opened the Starkville Regional by beating Campbell 19-4 to extend their program-record winning streak to 22 games.
 
VCU finished the year at 38-16, its seventh straight full season with 34 or more wins.