The Cortland baseball team is ranked second nationally in Division III in the Collegiate Baseball Newspaper 2022 preseason poll.

Cortland is coming off a 2021 campaign in which the Red Dragons finished 33-9, won SUNYAC and NCAA regional titles and tied for third place nationally at the NCAA Division III World Series. 
 
Cortland set an NCAA Division III record with its 28th straight NCAA tournament appearance (1993-2019, 2021; the 2020 season was canceled in mid-March and the NCAA tournament wasn't held that season). The Red Dragons' 28-year playoff streak is the second-longest active run across all NCAA divisions behind only Division I Florida State's 43-year streak (1978-2019, 2021). 
 
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 15 games this spring versus teams either ranked or "receiving votes" in the Collegiate Baseball poll. Cortland opens the season Feb. 18 at defending national champion Salisbury, and also plays the top-ranked Sea Gulls on Feb. 20. The following weekend features games versus fifth-ranked Johns Hopkins and #13 N.C. Wesleyan, both at Hopkins in Baltimore. 
 
Cortland also is scheduled to play three SUNYAC games at #27 Oswego April 29-30, two non-league games versus #37 Rochester (March 2 away, April 20 at home), a three-game non-league home series with Johnson & Wales (R.I.) (receiving votes) March 19-20, and a three-game SUNYAC home series versus Brockport (receiving votes) April 8-9.