NCAA DIVISION I COLLEGE BASEBALL WORLD SERIES & USA SWIMMING TRIALS

It’s busy, bust in Omaha, Neb.

And everybody out of the pool following the United States swimming Olympic trials, and eight teams onto the baseball field at Ameritrade Park for the Division 1 World Series.

In the pool, Katie Ledecky earned a trip to her third Olympics with a never-in-doubt victory in the women’s 400 meter freestyle Monday night. She touched the wall in 4 minutes, 27 seconds with runner-up Paige Madden five body lengths behind, but her winning time was off Ledecky’s world record of 3:56.46 that she set almost five years ago at the Rio Olympics.

And at the Australian trials on Sunday, the “Aussie Terminator” Ariarne Titmus, expected to be Ledecky’s biggest challenge in Tokyo, won the 400 free with the second-fastest time in history — 3:56.90.

There was also two Olympic rookies who locked up their spots for Tokyo, as teenager Torri Huske came away with the women’s 100 meter butterfly, while Michael Andrew held on to win the men’s 100 meter breaststroke. Then there was an even younger swimmer — 16-year-old Claire Curzan of Gary, N.C. wrapped up the expected second spot on the Olympic team in the 100 fly.

And now it’s the Elite Eight of college baseball, with the four opening round games of double-elimination set in two brackets, on Saturday and Sunday, and all scheduled for 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.

The last two to make it in were Virginia and Mississippi State, with the 7th-seeded Bulldogs getting past 10th-seeded Notre Dame in the deciding game three of the best-of-3 in the Starkville, Miss. Super Regional after the teams split the other two games.

And in the neutrial field Super Regional at Columbia, S.C., the unseeded Cavaliers got past unseeded Dallas Baptist, 5-2, with a 5-run top of the seventh inning that erased a 2-0 deficit. And Mississippi State did its damage by breaking open the contest with 6-run second frame.

And so the big show starts out with unseeded North Carolina State (35-18) which stunned top-seeded Arkansas with two-straight wins after being blown out in game 21-2, facing 9th-seeded Stanford (38-15) at 11 in the morning Saturday.

Then in the 7 o’clock contest, it’s unseeded Arizona (45-16) meeting up with 4th-seeded Vanderbilt (45-15).

This is Bracket One, with the two losers trying to survive Monday in the morninggame, and the two winners out to stay undefeated in the night cap.

In Bracket Two, the Sunday morningopening sends 2nd-seeded Texas (47-1) against Mississippi State, and in the night game, it’s Virginia versus 3rd-seeded Tennessee (48-16).

Here, too, it’s a battle on Monday morning morning as the two losers look to survive, and the two winners seek to remain unbeaten.

There are 297 school playing Division I baseball and 64 make the tournament that includes the Region, the Super Regionals, and the World Series.

Southern California has won the most titles, 12, but is not in this World Series. Texas and Stanford have won six each, and both are in quest of another one. Louisiana State and Arizona State have won five apiece, but are not playing in this one, and then there’s Arizona with four, and with another chance.

Of all the schools left, only Vanderbilt and VIrginia have met in the championship, with the Commodores defeating the Cavaliers, in the 2004 final, and in 2005, it was Virginia hoisting the championship trophy. Now they are in different brackets, but could again clash in the best-of-3 finale.