NCAA Division II Baseball Tournament
The NCAA Division II Baseball Tournament is an annual college baseball tournament held that is held at the culmination of the spring regular season and which determines the NCAA Division II college baseball champion. The initial rounds of the tournament are held on the campus sites, and, since 2009, the NCAA Division II Baseball National Finals have been held at the USA Baseball National Training Complex in Cary, North Carolina with the complex earning the bid to host through at least the 2018 championship.
Current season, competition or edition: 2020 NCAA Division II Baseball Tournament | |
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| Sport | College baseball |
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| Founded | 1968 |
| No. of teams | 56 |
| Most recent champion(s) | Tampa (8th title) |
| Most titles | Florida Southern (9 titles) |
| Official website | NCAA.com |
University of Mount Olive and Town of Cary are co-hosts of the National Finals.[1]
In 2019, the University of Tampa claimed its eighth national championship, going unbeaten in the College World Series as the 2 seed. The Spartans defeated Colorado Mesa 3–1 in the Championship Game.
Currently, Florida Southern has won the most Division II baseball titles with nine.
Format
The 56-team tournament consists of a field of eight double-elimination regionals. The eight regions are the Atlantic, Central, East, Midwest, South, Southeast, South Central and West. In most cases, the No. 1 seed hosts a regional.
The eight regional champions advance to the National Finals, which also follows a double-elimination format. Teams are not re-seeded for the National Finals. The tournament field is broken up into two four-team brackets. When four teams remain, the two one-loss teams play the unbeaten team from the opposite bracket. The two remaining teams play each other for the championship. If both finalists are unbeaten, the championship is, in effect, a best two-out-of-three series. If both finalists have one loss, the championship is a single winner-takes-all game. If one finalist is unbeaten and one finalist has a loss, the one-loss team must defeat the unbeaten team twice to win the championship. The unbeaten team needs to beat the one-loss team only once to win the championship.
Results
Champions
Teams that no longer compete in Division II are in italics. All such teams now compete in Division I.
See also
References
- "Division II Baseball Championship Results" (PDF). NCAA. NCAA.org. Retrieved January 16, 2016.
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Events listed in italics have been discontinued. | ||