NCAA Baseball Tournament 2014 scores and bracket: College World Series set

After a 42-year absence, Ole Miss is finally returning to Omaha.

The Rebels were among three teams to punch their ticket to the College World Series with super regional championship wins on Monday night, joining TCU and Virginia. The final eight-team bracket has been officially set.

The Rebels, who have been notorious for skirting the edge of Omaha over the past decade, finally broke through with a 10-4 win over nationally seeded Louisiana-Lafayette on Monday night. Under head coach Mike Bianco, the club reached four super regionals between 2005 and 2009 without winning a single one. In several of those, the Rebels won Game 1 before dropping two in a row.

It was fitting then, that Ole Miss worked in the opposite order this time around, falling in Game 1 to the Ragin’ Cajuns on Saturday before rallying back for wins in consecutive elimination games.

TCU and Virginia became the only two national seeds to reach Omaha, the lowest total ever.

Here is the final field for Omaha:

For a complete bracket, visit NCAA.com. Here are the scores and recaps from Monday:

It was a suicide squeeze that gave the Horned Frogs new life on Monday. Kyle Bacak’s bunt broke a tie game in the top of the ninth inning, putting TCU in front for the first time all game. TCU entered the inning trailing, 5-4, after Pepperdine pushed the go-ahead run across in the bottom of the eighth.

The Horned Frogs are one of the hottest teams in the field at Omaha, having won 32 of their last 36 games. They’ll face off against Texas Tech on Sunday.

For years, the story was Ole Miss collapsing late in super regional play. The story on Monday was a late-game surge to seize control against the top-ranked team in the country. With the bases loaded in the top of the ninth inning, pinch hitter Holt Perdzock drove a bases-clearing double into the right field corner and then scored on a sacrifice fly, pushing the Rebels’ lead from two to six. The real hero was reliever Josh Laxer, who put together a monster save, allowing one unearned run over the final 3⅓.

Virginia took the drama out of Game 3 early, piling up a 6-0 lead by the third inning. Maryland managed to cut the deficit to four in the eighth inning, but the Cavs responded with a five-spot to put it away. Virginia, the highest-seeded team remaining in the tournament, will face off against Ole Miss on Sunday.