Draft:2024 BUCS Baseball National Championship

The 2024 BUCS Baseball National Championship will be the 3rd edition of the BUCS Baseball National Championship. The 12-team tournament was scheduled be contested over the weekend of the 23rd and 24 March 2024, at the Farnham Park National Baseball & Softball Complex. However, due to heavy rain over the proceeding weeks, the tournament was postponed, and rescheduled for the 17th and 18th April 2024

Loughbrough University are the defending champions, having won both of the previous tournaments, however, neither of their entered teams qualified for the tournament, meaning there would be a new champion for the first time under the BUCS umbrella, and since June 2018 when considering the BaseballSoftballUK (BSUK) run National Universities Championship.

Tournament Structure
The 12 qualified teams would be placed into 3 groups of 4, with each team playing 3 games in their group. The 3 group winners and the best runner up would then proceed to the semi-finals. The rest of the teams would compete in a round robin for the minor places

Qualified Teams
The 12 teams qualified based on their positions in the 2023-24 BUCS Baseball Season. Teams were split into 5 regional divisions (South Eastern, Western, Midlands, Northern and Scottish), with either 2 or 3 teams (depending on division size) qualifying for the National Championship.

However, with the postponement of the tournament, both Stirling and York dropped out, leaving 10 teams to compete in the tournament

Group A
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Group B
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Group C
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