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28-618: The Norfolk State Spartans baseball team qualified for the NCAA Division I baseball tournament for the first time in 2021 by winning the 2021 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference baseball tournament . This article about a sports team in Virginia is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a university or college in Virginia is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . NCAA Division I baseball tournament The NCAA Division I Baseball Championship

56-500: A double-elimination bracket . The 16 national seeds are given the No. 1 seed in their assigned regional. The host sites are determined largely by merit – most national seeds host – but are also contested by bids from schools guaranteeing the NCAA a certain amount of revenue from that regional. Host teams traditionally have a large advantage, although the home team for each game is determined by rule, so

84-465: A team can lose a total of four games and still be crowned champions. During team selection, the top 16 of the 64-team field are given "national seeds". As in other NCAA tournaments, conference champions (usually determined by a tournament) receive automatic bids, and the selection committee fills the remaining spots. The first round of the tournament, called Regionals , consists of 16 locations that include four teams, seeded 1 through 4, competing in

112-491: Is an ESPN sports network only in Texas. All Super Regionals are on ESPN, ESPN2 & ESPNU. However they are mainly on ESPN2 & ESPNU. The CWS is on ESPN & ESPN2. In 1999, the NCAA began awarding eight teams with a national seed . These teams automatically host a super regional if they advance past the regional round, unless their facilities are considered inadequate by the NCAA and thus do not bid to host, or their home stadium

140-524: Is held each year from May through June and features 64 college baseball teams in the United States, culminating in the eight-team Men's College World Series (MCWS) at Charles Schwab Field Omaha in Omaha, Nebraska . The tournament is unique in that it features four tiers of competition, alternating between double-elimination brackets and best-of-three series. In fact, throughout the entire 64-team tournament,

168-877: Is not its home field, or hosted by a team that is not the highest team in the region, due to a number of factors including scheduling conflicts at the highest team's home venue, the host school's home venue being inadequate to host according to NCAA criteria, the host school not submitting a bid, and severe weather. Alex Box Stadium, Skip Bertman Field : 2009–present Condron Ballpark : 2021–present Founders Park : 2010–present Dell Diamond ( Round Rock, TX ): 2007 USA Baseball National Training Complex ( Cary, NC ): 2008 Reckling Park : 2001–present Grainger Stadium ( Kinston, NC ): 2001 Super Reg., 2004 Clark-LeClair Stadium : 2009–present Doak Field : 2008–present Bricktown Ballpark ( Oklahoma City, OK ): 2019 O'Brate Stadium : 2022–present 1947 NCAA Baseball Tournament The 1947 NCAA baseball tournament

196-411: Is unavailable because of scheduling conflicts; in some cases, a team may share a stadium with a minor league professional baseball team, or if their stadium does not meet NCAA requirements, host the event at the professional team's stadium. The former was the case for Cal State Fullerton in 1999, as its ballpark lacked the required seating capacity and media facilities at the time. In 2015, Missouri State

224-570: The Super Regionals , which are a best-of-three series between the winners of each paired regional. The Super Regionals are typically hosted by the higher national seed in the regional pairing. If that team does not advance, but the lower national seed advances, the Super Regional will be played at that team's field. If neither of the two advancing teams are national seeds, they will bid for hosting rights. Although one school hosts all three games,

252-488: The College World Series debuted in 2003 after CBS ceased coverage of the "one-off" College World Series championship game. This allowed the NCAA to institute the best-of-three series for the finals, which better mimics the traditional three-game series played during the regular season and makes a pitching staff's depth a key factor. ESPN and ESPN2 now cover the entire CWS. After 61 years at Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium ,

280-672: The College World Series moved to the new TD Ameritrade Park in 2011 . For the first time, the 2018 NCAA Division I baseball tournament seeded the top 16 teams, rather than only the top 8 teams as had been the practice since 1999. This ensures that the regional featuring top ranked team will be paired with the regional hosted by the sixteenth seeded team, where the previous Super Regionals qualifiers were paired generally along geographical lines. ESPN , ESPN2 , ESPNU , SEC Network , & ESPN3 covered every regional. Longhorn Network also covers games that Texas hosts for people in Texas for regionals but featured on ESPN3 since Longhorn Network

308-545: The College World Series, which was an eight-team double-elimination tournament. The 1950 event was the first in Omaha, where it has remained. From 1954 through 1974 the tournament consisted of eight districts, named by number. Each consisted of between two and five teams playing in differently formatted tournaments. Some years included automatic College World Series qualifiers, and that team played no district games; for an example see 1959 . The winner of each district moved on to

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336-433: The College World Series, which was now a four-team double-elimination tournament. From 1950 through 1953 , the preliminary rounds were not managed by the NCAA but rather by the district colleges, and thus these games are not recorded in the official history books of the NCAA. The winner of each district managed playoff (although some districts did not have playoffs and chose to select their teams by committee) were sent to

364-513: The College World series, which was double-elimination. The first year of the regional format was 1975 . Eight regionals consisted of four teams in a double-elimination tournament. The winner of each regional moved on to the College World Series, also double-elimination. The tournament essentially remained unchanged from the 1975 version, however, one regional consisted of six teams in a double-elimination tournament, with four teams in each of

392-555: The East and West brackets. At Yale Field , New Haven, Connecticut At Denver, Colorado The first College World Series was a best of three series. Future President of the United States George H. W. Bush was Yale's captain and appeared in the 1947 and 1948 College World Series. (Bush was actually waiting on-deck when Cal recorded the final out in the second game of the 1947 series.) This article related to

420-495: The NCAA expanded to a 64-team format with a regional and subsequent super regional round, with the winners of the super regionals advancing to the MCWS. The tournament begins with 16 double-elimination regional sites of four teams each; the NCAA seeds the teams 1–4 and announces the host school and venue, which is generally hosted by the highest seeded team in the region at their home stadium. The winners of each regional (16 teams) advance to

448-437: The NCAA identified the top 5 teams and slotted them into separate Regionals. Those teams are shown in with double underline . From 1987 through 1998, all eight Regionals included a top seed, which are also shown with double underline . Starting in 1999, there were 16 Regionals, and the top 8 national seeds are shown with double underline , while the next 8 seeds are shown with single underline . These seeded teams are not always

476-489: The host of the Regional, but in recent years, the list of hosts aligns very closely to the list of top seeds. The first tournament was an 8 team single elimination tournament. Four teams each were put into two playoff brackets, named the "Eastern playoff" and the "Western playoff." The winner of each bracket moved on to the College World Series, which was, at that time, a 2 team best-of-three-game series. The second year of

504-411: The host school sometimes plays as the visiting team. The regionals are paired together as in a typical 16-team bracket tournament; the regional containing the No. 1 national seed is paired with the regional containing the No. 16 national seed, that containing the No. 2 national seed with that containing the No. 15 national seed, and so forth. This creates the matchups for the second round of competition,

532-402: The other seven regionals. The winner of each regional moved on to the College World Series, also double-elimination. The tournament expanded again in 1982 —to 36 teams—to include two regionals with six teams while the other six regionals only had four teams. The Regionals remained double-elimination with the winners moving onto the College World Series, also double-elimination. Subsequently,

560-406: The super regional round, divided into eight super regional locations, each with two teams facing off in a best-of-three series; once again, the NCAA announces the host site between rounds, and each super regional is generally hosted by the higher-seeded of the two teams. Teams must submit a bid for hosting rights. At times, the host venue has been hosted at a venue of the highest seed's choosing that

588-457: The teams split home-team status in the first two games, with the host school batting last in the opening game and first in game 2. If a third game is needed, a coin toss determines home-team status. The eight Super Regional winners meet in Omaha, Nebraska , in the Men's College World Series. The MCWS mimics the earlier rounds, consisting of two double-elimination brackets of four teams each. Thereafter,

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616-671: The total national championships won by school, as well a map of all champions. The following tables show the total appearances in the NCAA Tournament by school. The official NCAA record only includes the District playoff games starting in 1954, so only the top 8 teams from earlier years appear on this table. This may not align with every individual school's media guide. Total Columns Table Entries 1947 through 1949 1950 through 1974 1975 through 1998 1999 to present From 1982 through 1986,

644-449: The tournament field expanded to 38 teams in 1985, 40 teams in 1986, and 48 teams in 1987. From 1988 through 1998 , the NCAA tournament featured 48 teams, which contested in eight regionals of six teams each for the right to go to the College World Series. The four-team regional format and the best-of-three super regional format debuted in 1999 , with the expansion of the tournament to 64 teams. The best-of-three championship series at

672-458: The tournament maintained the "Eastern playoff" and "Western playoff" format, however, they were now double elimination. The winner of each bracket moved on to the College World Series to play a best-of-three-game series. The third year of the tournament consisted of four regions named Region A , Region B , Region C , and Region D . Each region consisted of two teams playing in a best-of-three-game series. The winner of each region moved on to

700-523: The winners of each bracket meet in a best-of-three final. The winner of this final series wins the MCWS and is crowned the national champion. The school with the most national champions is USC with 12, though the Trojans have not won one since 1998, and have not appeared in the World Series at all since 2002. They are followed by LSU , with 7 national champions between 1991 and 2023. The following table shows

728-528: Was divided into two regional brackets, the Eastern playoff and the Western playoff. Each region played a single elimination bracket, with the champion advancing to the College World Series. The tournament field was determined by regional committees, some of whom held playoffs, while others selected specific conference champions, and still others simply selected their representatives. The eight teams were divided among

756-497: Was the first NCAA -sanctioned baseball tournament that determined a national champion. The tournament was held as the conclusion of the 1947 NCAA baseball season , beginning on June 20. The 1947 College World Series was played at Hyames Field on the campus of Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan from June 27 to June 28. The first tournament's champion was California , coached by Clint Evans . The tournament

784-491: Was unable to host because of scheduling conflicts with the minor-league team whose off-campus ballpark it used. In 2018, the NCAA expanded the national seeds to 16 teams, guaranteeing the lower seed the ability to host the super regional if the higher seed does not advance. Gray Shade and Italics indicates team made the Men's College World Series . Bold Italics indicates team won the Men's College World Series. Starting in 1999,

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