The Cortland baseball team is ranked 10th nationally in Division III in the D3baseball.com/National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) 2024 preseason poll.

Cortland is coming off a 2023 campaign in which the Red Dragons finished 34-13 and made its 30th straight NCAA Division III tournament appearance (1993-2019, 2021-23, no tournament in 2020). The NCAA streak is the longest ever in Division III history and it's the longest active streak among all NCAA divisions. 
 
Cortland has made 15 World Series appearances, all since 1995 - the most by any school since the eight-team Series format was adopted in 1991. Of those showings, 11 have come under current head coach Joe Brown (2000-01, 2005, 2007-08, 2010, 2012, 2014-16, 2021) since he started as head coach in 2000. Cortland won the 2015 national title, finished second nationally twice (2005, 2010), placed third four times (1997, 1998, 2016, 2021) and was fourth twice (2007, 2012).

The Red Dragons are scheduled to play 13 games this spring against teams that are either in the top 25 or the others receiving votes section of the preseason poll. Cortland opens the season Feb. 16 at second-ranked Salisbury and also faces the Sea Gulls on Feb. 18. The Red Dragons will play in a tournament in Greensboro, N.C., with games versus sixth-ranked Lynchburg, the defending national champion, along with eighth-ranked Marietta, 16th-ranked Denison and 20th-ranked Christopher Newport. 
 
Cortland also is heading to California for seven games from March 8-16 and will play 18th-ranked Chapman three times (March 14-16), 23rd-ranked La Verne once (March 12) and also-receiving Cal Lutheran three times (March 8-10). 
 
Cortland's home opener is slated for March 19 versus Hamilton, and the Red Dragons begin SUNYAC play March 22-23 with a three-game series at Oneonta.