1968 NCAA University Division baseball season

1968 NCAA University Division baseball season
NCAA Tournament
College World Series
Champions	USC (5th title)
Runners-up	Southern Illinois (1st CWS Appearance)
Winning Coach	Rod Dedeaux (5th title)
MOP	Bill Seinsoth (Southern California)
Seasons
←  1967 1969  →

The 1968 NCAA University Division baseball season, play of college baseball in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) began in the spring of 1968. The season progressed through the regular season and concluded with the 1968 College World Series. The College World Series, held for the twenty second time in 1968, consisted of one team from each of eight geographical districts and was held in Omaha, Nebraska at Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium as a double-elimination tournament. Southern California claimed the championship. ^[1]

Realignment

• Texas Tech joined the Southwest Conference, leaving the ranks of independents.

Conference winners

This is a partial list of conference champions from the 1968 season. Each of the eight geographical districts chose, by various methods, the team that would represent them in the NCAA Tournament. 10 teams earned automatic bids by winning their conference championship while 17 teams earned at-large selections. ^{[1] [2]}

Conference	Regular Season Winner
Atlantic Coast Conference	NC State
Big Eight Conference	Oklahoma State
Big Ten Conference	Minnesota
EIBL	Harvard
Mid-American Conference	Ohio
Pacific-8 Conference	Southern California
Southeastern Conference	Alabama
Southern Conference	East Carolina
Southwest Conference	Texas

Conference standings

The following is an incomplete list of conference standings:

1968 Big Eight Conference baseball standings v t e Conf Overall Team W   L   PCT W   L   PCT No. 5 Oklahoma State  ‍†‍‍y 15 – 3   .833 23 – 9   .719 Kansas State  ‍‍‍ 13 – 7   .650 15 – 16   .484 Oklahoma  ‍‍‍ 10 – 8   .556 13 – 14   .481 Iowa State  ‍‍‍ 9 – 9   .500 11 – 16   .407 Missouri  ‍‍‍ 9 – 11   .450 11 – 16   .407 Colorado  ‍‍‍ 6 – 10   .375 9 – 13   .409 Nebraska  ‍‍‍ 7 – 13   .350 10 – 15   .400 Kansas  ‍‍‍ 5 – 13   .278 7 – 10   .412 † – Conference champion y – Invited to the NCAA Tournament As of June 30, 1968 [3] ; Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

1968 Athletic Association of Western Universities baseball standings v t e Conf Overall Team W   L   PCT W   L   PCT No. 1 Southern California  ‍†‍‍y 16 – 2   .889 43 – 12   .782 No. 26 Stanford  ‍‍‍ 13 – 4   .765 36 – 12   .750 Washington State  ‍‍‍ 11 – 7   .611 29 – 9   .763 UCLA  ‍‍‍ 11 – 9   .550 35 – 20   .636 Oregon  ‍‍‍ 8 – 10   .444 –   – California  ‍‍‍ 7 – 12   .368 24 – 24   .500 Oregon State  ‍‍‍ 6 – 12   .333 23 – 13   .639 Washington  ‍‍‍ 2 – 18   .100 15 – 26   .366 † – Conference champion y – Invited to the NCAA Tournament As of June 30, 1968 [4] ; Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

1968 Southwest Conference baseball standings v t e Conf Overall Team W   L   PCT W   L   PCT No. 6 Texas  ‍†‍‍y 12 – 4   .750 23 – 11   .676 TCU  ‍‍‍ 13 – 5   .722 20 – 9   .690 Texas A&M  ‍‍‍ 10 – 5   .667 21 – 7   .750 Baylor  ‍‍‍ 9 – 7   .563 14 – 13   .519 SMU  ‍‍‍ 7 – 11   .389 10 – 14   .417 Rice  ‍‍‍ 6 – 12   .333 10 – 15   .400 Texas Tech  ‍‍‍ 2 – 15   .118 9 – 20   .310 † – Conference champion y – Invited to the NCAA Tournament As of June 30, 1968 [5] ; Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

College World Series

Main article: 1968 College World Series

The 1968 season marked the twenty second NCAA Baseball Tournament, which culminated with the eight team College World Series. The College World Series was held in Omaha, Nebraska. The eight teams played a double-elimination format, with Southern California claiming their fifth championship with a 4–3 win over Southern Illinois in the final. ^[1]

	First round					Second round					Third round
	Winner's bracket
		Harvard	0
		St. John's	2
							St. John's	312
							NC State	2
		Southern Illinois	6
		NC State	7
												St. John's	6
												USC	7
		Texas	5
		Oklahoma State	8
							Oklahoma State	5
							USC	6
		BYU	3
		USC	5
						Loser's bracket
							Harvard	1
							Southern Illinois	211				Southern Illinois	7
												Oklahoma State	1
							Texas	7
							BYU	0				Texas	5
												NC State	6

Semifinals

Finals

if needed

Re-ordered Semifinals

USC

2

NC State

0

USC

4

Southern Illinois

3

Southern Illinois

15

St. John's

0

Award winners

All-America team

Main article: 1968 College Baseball All-America Team

References

1. W.C. Madden & Patrick J. Stewart (2004). The College World Series:A Baseball History, 1947-2003. McFarland & Co. pp. 41–43. ISBN   9780786418428 . Retrieved August 15, 2014.
2. "NCAA Men's College World Series Records" (PDF). NCAA. 2009. p. 7. Retrieved August 15, 2014.
3. "College Baseball Conference Standings -- 1968". Boyd's World. Retrieved September 21, 2018.
4. "College Baseball Conference Standings -- 1968". Boyd's World. Retrieved August 15, 2014.
5. "College Baseball Conference Standings -- 1968". boydsworld.com. Retrieved July 16, 2020.