Current season, competition or edition: 2023 NCAA Division II baseball tournament | |
Sport | College baseball |
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Founded | 1968 |
No. of teams | 56 |
Country | United States Canada |
Most recent champion(s) | Tampa Spartans (9th title) |
Most titles | Florida Southern (9) Tampa (9) |
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.
Florida Southern and Tampa have ben the most successful programs, with nine titles each. [1]
Tampa are also the defending national champions, winning their ninth national championship in 2024.
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.
* Participation vacated by the NCAA Committee on Infractions
Team | Titles | Years |
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Florida Southern | 9 | 1971, 1972, 1975, 1978, 1981, 1985, 1988, 1995, 2005 |
Tampa | 9 | 1992, 1993, 1998, 2006, 2007, 2013, 2015, 2019, 2024 |
Cal Poly Pomona | 3 | 1976, 1980, 1983 |
West Chester | 2 | 2012, 2017 |
Central Missouri | 2 | 1994, 2003 |
Chico State | 2 | 1997, 1999 |
Angelo State | 1 | 2023 |
North Greenville | 1 | 2022 |
Wingate | 1 | 2021 |
Augustana (SD) | 1 | 2018 |
Nova Southeastern | 1 | 2016 |
West Florida | 1 | 2011 |
Lynn | 1 | 2009 |
Mount Olive | 1 | 2008 |
Delta State | 1 | 2004 |
Columbus State | 1 | 2002 |
St. Mary's (TX) | 1 | 2001 |
SE Oklahoma State | 1 | 2000 |
Valdosta State | 1 | 1979 |
Team | Titles | Years |
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Southern Indiana | 2 | 2010, 2014 |
Jacksonville State | 2 | 1990, 1991 |
Troy | 2 | 1986, 1987 |
Cal State Northridge | 2 | 1970, 1984 |
UC Riverside | 2 | 1977, 1982 |
UC Irvine | 2 | 1973, 1974 |
Kennesaw State | 1 | 1996 |
Cal Poly | 1 | 1989* |
Illinois State | 1 | 1969 |
Chapman | 1 | 1968 |
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