NCAA Division II Baseball Tournament
Current season, competition or edition: | |
Sport | College baseball |
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Founded | 1968 |
No. of teams | 56 |
Most recent champion(s) | Wingate (1st title) |
Most titles | Florida Southern (9 titles) |
Official website | NCAA.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) | ||||||||||
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Year | Site | Stadium | Championship | |||||||
Champion | Score | Runner-up | ||||||||
1968 Details |
Springfield, MO | Meador Park | Chapman | 11–0 | Delta State | |||||
1969 Details |
Illinois State | 12–0 | Southwest Missouri State | |||||||
1970 Details |
Valley State | 2–1 | Nicholls State | |||||||
1971 Details |
Florida Southern | 4–0 | Central Michigan | |||||||
1972 Details |
Springfield, IL | Lanphier Park | Florida Southern | 5–1 | Cal State Northridge | |||||
1973 Details |
UC Irvine | 9–6 | Ithaca | |||||||
1974 Details |
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 Details |
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 Details |
Southern Indiana | 3–2 | Colorado Mesa | |||||||
2015 Details |
Tampa | 3–1 | Catawba | |||||||
2016 Details |
Nova Southeastern | 8–6 | Millersville | |||||||
2017 Details |
Grand Prairie, TX | AirHogs Stadium | West Chester | 5–2 | UC San Diego | |||||
2018 Details |
Cary, NC | USA Baseball National Training Complex | Augustana | 3–2 | Columbus State | |||||
2019 Details |
Tampa | 3–1 | Colorado Mesa | |||||||
2020 |
Cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic | Cancelled | ||||||||
2021 Details |
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 |
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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 |
1 |
See also[]
- NCAA Division I Baseball Championship
- NCAA Division III Baseball Championship
- National Club Baseball Association
- List of college baseball awards
- U.S. college baseball awards
- Pre-NCAA baseball champion
References[]
- ^ "Division II Baseball Championship Results" (PDF). NCAA. NCAA.org. Retrieved January 16, 2016.
- NCAA Division II Baseball Tournament