NCAA Division II Baseball Tournament

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NCAA Division II Baseball Tournament
Current season, competition or edition:
Current sports event
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SportCollege baseball
Founded1968
No. of teams56
Most recent
champion(s)
Wingate (1st title)
Most titlesFlorida Southern (9 titles)
Official websiteNCAA.com

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. [1]

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[]

NCAA Division II Baseball Championship
(NCAA College Division Baseball Championship)
Year Site Stadium Championship
Champion Score Runner-up
1968
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Springfield, MO Meador Park Chapman 11–0 Delta State
1969
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Illinois State 12–0 Southwest Missouri State
1970
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Valley State 2–1 Nicholls State
1971
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Florida Southern 4–0 Central Michigan
1972
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Springfield, IL Lanphier Park Florida Southern 5–1 Cal State Northridge
1973
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UC Irvine 9–6 Ithaca
1974
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UC Irvine 14–1 LSU–New Orleans
1975
Florida Southern 10–7 Marietta
1976
Cal Poly Pomona 17–3 SIU Edwardsville
1977
UC Riverside 4–1 Eckerd
1978
Florida Southern 7–2 Delta State
1979
Valdosta State 3–2 Florida Southern
1980
Riverside, CA Riverside Sports Complex Cal Poly Pomona 13–6 New Haven
1981
Florida Southern 9–0 Eastern Illinois
1982
UC Riverside 10–1 Florida Southern
1983
Cal Poly Pomona 9–7 Jacksonville State
1984
Cal State Northridge 10–5 Florida Southern
1985
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Montgomery, AL Paterson Field Florida Southern 15–5 Cal Poly Pomona
1986
Troy State 5–0 Columbus State
1987
Troy State 7–5 Tampa
1988
Florida Southern 5–4 Sacramento State
1989
Cal Poly * 9–5 New Haven
1990
Jacksonville State 12–8 Cal State Northridge
1991
Jacksonville State 20–4 Missouri Southern State
1992
Tampa 11–8 Mansfield
1993
Tampa 7–5 Cal Poly
1994
Central Missouri State 14–9 Florida Southern
1995
Florida Southern 15–0 Georgia College
1996
Kennesaw State 4–0 Saint Joseph's (Ind.)
1997
Chico State 13–12 Central Oklahoma
1998
Tampa 6–1 Kennesaw State
1999
Chico State 11–5 Kennesaw State
2000
Southeastern Oklahoma 7–2 Fort Hays State
2001
St. Mary's (Tex.) 11–3 Central Missouri State
2002
Columbus State 5–3 Chico State
2003
Central Missouri State 11–4 Tampa
2004
Riverwalk Stadium Delta State 12–8 Grand Valley State
2005
Florida Southern 12–9 North Florida
2006
Tampa 3–2 Chico State
2007
Tampa 7–2 Columbus State
2008
Sauget, IL GCS Ballpark Mount Olive 6–2 Ouachita Baptist
2009
Cary, NC USA Baseball National Training Complex Lynn 2–1 Emporia State
2010
Southern Indiana 6–4 UC San Diego
2011
West Florida 12–2 Winona State
2012
West Chester 9–0 Delta State
2013
Tampa 8–2 Minnesota State Mankato
2014
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Southern Indiana 3–2 Colorado Mesa
2015
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Tampa 3–1 Catawba
2016
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Nova Southeastern 8–6 Millersville
2017
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Grand Prairie, TX AirHogs Stadium West Chester 5–2 UC San Diego
2018
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Cary, NC USA Baseball National Training Complex Augustana 3–2 Columbus State
2019
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Tampa 3–1 Colorado Mesa
2020
Cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic Cancelled
2021
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Cary, NC USA Baseball National Training Complex Wingate 5–3 Central Missouri
  • Participation vacated by the NCAA Committee on Infractions

Champions[]

Teams that no longer compete in Division II are in italics. All such teams now compete in Division I.

Rank Team Titles
1 Florida Southern 9
2 Tampa 8
3 Cal Poly Pomona 3
4 Central Missouri
Chico State
Cal State Northridge
Jacksonville State
Southern Indiana
UC Irvine
UC Riverside
Troy
West Chester
2
5 Augustana (SD)
Chapman
Columbus State
Delta State
Illinois State
Kennesaw State
Lynn
Mount Olive
Nova Southeastern
St. Mary's (TX)
Southeastern Oklahoma State
Valdosta State
West Florida
Wingate
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See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Division II Baseball Championship Results" (PDF). NCAA. NCAA.org. Retrieved January 16, 2016.
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