NCAA Division II baseball tournament

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NCAA Division II baseball tournament
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Sports current event.svg 2022 NCAA Division II baseball tournament
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Sport College baseball
Founded1968
No. of teams56
Most recent
champion(s)
Angelo State (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 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 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 2026 championship. University of Mount Olive and Town of Cary are co-hosts of the National Finals.

Contents

Currently, Florida Southern has won the most Division II baseball titles with nine. [1]

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)
YearHost cityStadiumChampionship Results
ChampionScoreRunner-up
1968 Springfield, MO Meador Park Chapman (1)11–0 Delta State
1969 Illinois State (1)12–0 Southwest Missouri State
1970 Valley State (1)2–1 Nicholls State
1971 Florida Southern (1)4–0 Central Michigan
1972 Springfield, IL Lanphier Park Florida Southern (2)5–1 Cal State Northridge
1973 UC Irvine (1)9–6 Ithaca
1974 UC Irvine (2)14–1 LSU–New Orleans
1975 Florida Southern (3)10–7 Marietta
1976 Cal Poly Pomona (1)17–3 SIU Edwardsville
1977 UC Riverside (1)4–1 Eckerd
1978 Florida Southern (4)7–2 Delta State
1979 Valdosta State (1)3–2 Florida Southern
1980 Riverside, CA Riverside Sports Complex Cal Poly Pomona (2)13–6 New Haven
1981 Florida Southern (5)9–0 Eastern Illinois
1982 UC Riverside (2)10–1 Florida Southern
1983 Cal Poly Pomona (3)9–7 Jacksonville State
1984 Cal State Northridge (2)10–5 Florida Southern
1985 Montgomery, AL Paterson Field Florida Southern (6)15–5 Cal Poly Pomona
1986 Troy State (1)5–0 Columbus State
1987 Troy State (2)7–5 Tampa
1988 Florida Southern (7)5–4 Sacramento State
1989 Cal Poly *9–5 New Haven
1990 Jacksonville State (1)12–8 Cal State Northridge
1991 Jacksonville State (2)20–4 Missouri Southern State
1992 Tampa (1)11–8 Mansfield
1993 Tampa (2)7–5 Cal Poly
1994 Central Missouri (1)14–9 Florida Southern
1995 Florida Southern (8)15–0 Georgia College
1996 Kennesaw State (1)4–0 Saint Joseph's (Ind.)
1997 Chico State (1)13–12 Central Oklahoma
1998 Tampa (3)6–1 Kennesaw State
1999 Chico State (2)11–5 Kennesaw State
2000 Southeastern Oklahoma (1)7–2 Fort Hays State
2001 St. Mary's (TX) (1)11–3 Central Missouri
2002 Columbus State (1)5–3 Chico State
2003 Central Missouri (2)11–4 Tampa
2004 Riverwalk Stadium Delta State (1)12–8 Grand Valley State
2005 Florida Southern (9)12–9 North Florida
2006 Tampa (4)3–2 Chico State
2007 Tampa (5)7–2 Columbus State
2008 Sauget, IL GCS Ballpark Mount Olive (1)6–2 Ouachita Baptist
2009 Cary, NC USA Baseball National Training Complex Lynn (1)2–1 Emporia State
2010 Southern Indiana (1)6–4 UC San Diego
2011 West Florida (1)12–2 Winona State
2012 West Chester (1)9–0 Delta State
2013 Tampa (6)8–2 Minnesota State Mankato
2014 Southern Indiana (2)3–2 Colorado Mesa
2015 Tampa (7)3–1 Catawba
2016 Nova Southeastern (1)8–6 Millersville
2017 Grand Prairie, TX AirHogs Stadium West Chester (2)5–2 UC San Diego
2018 Cary, NC USA Baseball National Training Complex Augustana (SD) (1)3–2 Columbus State
2019 Tampa (8)3–1 Colorado Mesa
2020Canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic
2021 Cary, NC USA Baseball National Training Complex Wingate (1)5–3 Central Missouri
2022 North Greenville (1)5–3 Point Loma
2023 Angelo State (1)6–5 Rollins
2024
2025
2026

* 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, save for Chapman, who competes in Division III.

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

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References

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