The Big Ten pitcher of the year, was taken by the Atlanta Braves in the seventh round with the No. 221 overall choice.
Brett Sears won numerous conference and national awards during his breakout senior season. Sears finished 9-1 with a 2.16 ERA and 101 strikeouts in 104 innings of work. Sears, 24, was named second-team All-America by D1Baseball, Baseball America, ABCA/Rawlings, the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association, and Perfect Game last month.
Sears was among the national leaders throughout the season, finishing fourth with a 0.88 WHIP, fifth in ERA (2.16), 19th in strikeout-to-walk ratio (5.32), 20th in hits allowed/9 innings (6.23), and 24th in walks allowed/9 innings (1.64).
Following Nebraska’s win over Purdue in the Big Ten Tournament, the senior became the first NU pitcher to go 9-0 since at least 1999.
Sears is the first Husker pitcher to record 100 or more strikeouts in a season since 2008, with 101 punchouts, the ninth-highest total in club history. Sears finished the season tied for eighth in program history with 104 innings pitched in 2024.
Sears becomes the seventh Husker pitcher picked in the first ten rounds under head coach Will Bolt, following Spencer Schwellenbach (2nd, 2021), Cade Povich (3rd, 2021), Emmett Olson (4th, 2023), and Jace Kaminska (10th, 2023).
He follows catcher Josh Caron, who was taken in the fourth round of the MLB Draft by the Seattle Mariners on Monday.
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