College World Series

For the women's softball championship, see Women's College World Series.

2006 College World Series Championship game at Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha, Nebraska.

The College World Series is the culmination of the NCAA Division I Baseball Championship which determines the NCAA Division I college baseball champion. It takes place in June of each year. Since 1950, the tournament has been held at Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha, Nebraska; earlier tournaments were held at Hyames Field in Kalamazoo, Michigan (1947-48) and Wichita, Kansas (1949). The name is derived from that of the Major League Baseball World Series championship.

2007

The 2007 College World Series was held from June 15-24, with 2006 champion Oregon State defending its title over 2006 runner-up North Carolina, winning 11-4 and 9-3 in the best-of-three series. The last team to repeat as national champions was LSU in 1997. The last repeat of the previous year's finals was in 1973, when USC defeated Arizona State for the second straight year. (USC won five straight titles from 1970-74.)

In 2007 the eight teams that advanced to the CWS started from an initial field of 64 teams, first from the 16 four-team double-elimination regionals. Oregon State began the tournament as a #3 seed in the regionals, in the lower half of the 64 teams.

The 16 winners from regionals advanced to the super regionals, 8 head-to-head matchups in a best-of-three format. The winners of these 8 super regionals advanced to the College World Series in Omaha.

The regional portion of the 2007 NCAA baseball tournament took place on June 1-4 at 16 sites. The eight site super-regional round took place June 8-11 at Rice, Louisville, Mississippi State, North Carolina, Oregon State, Cal State Fullerton, Arizona State, and Wichita State. Wichita State was the only host not to advance, falling to UC Irvine in two games.

Format changes

Through 1987, the College World Series was a pure double-elimination event. The format was changed in 1988, when the tournament was divided into two four-team double-elimination brackets, with the survivors of each bracket playing in a single championship game. The single-game championship was made for broadcast television, with the final game on CBS on Saturday afternoon.

In 2003, the tournament returned entirely to cable on ESPN, which had began covering all of the other games of the CWS since 1982 (and a partial schedule since 1980). [1] The championship final became a best-of-three series between the two bracket winners, with games scheduled for Saturday, Sunday, and Monday evenings. In the results shown here, Score indicates the score of the championship game(s) only.

Since 1999, the four-team brackets in the CWS have been determined by the results of regional and super regional play, much like the NCAA basketball tournament. Prior to 1999, the pairings for the CWS were not determined until after the completion of the regional tournaments.

Before expanding to 64 teams in 1999, the tournament had 48 teams, split into 8 six-team regionals. The winner of each regional advanced to the College World Series. The regionals were a test of endurance, as teams had to win at least four games over four days, sometimes five if a team dropped into the loser's bracket, placing a premium on pitching. Ironically, in the last two years of the six-team regional format, the eventual CWS champion (LSU in 1997, Southern California in 1998) had to battle back from the loser's bracket in the regional to advance to Omaha.

Division II

The Division II tournament has been held at Riverwalk Stadium in Montgomery, Alabama (and previously Paterson Field) since 1985. The Division III tournament has been held at Fox Cities Stadium in Appleton, Wisconsin since 2000. These divisions use a single-game championship rather than the best-of-three series.

Division III

Marietta College (Ohio) hosted the Division III baseball championship from its first year in 1976 through 1987. The 1988 and 1989 series were played in Bristol, Connecticut. Battle Creek, Michigan took over in 1990 and Salem, Virginia, in 1995. In 2007 the Tyler Junior College Apaches hosted and won the NJCAA Division III College World Series.

Division I

CWS appearances & titles

• Table is sortable
• Bold indicates team won the CWS that year

Most CWS wins (games)

(All records are through 2007 College World Series).

Division II

• 1968 Chapman 11-0 Delta State
• 1969 Illinois State 12-0 Southwest Missouri State
• 1970 Cal State Northridge 2-1 Nicholls State
• 1971 Florida Southern 4-0 Central Michigan
• 1972 Florida Southern 5-1 Cal State Northridge
• 1973 UC Irvine 9-6 Ithaca
• 1974 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 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 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
• 1992 Tampa 11-8 Mansfield
• 1993 Tampa 7-5 Cal Poly
• 1994 Central Missouri State 14-9 Florida Southern
• 1995 Florida Southern 15-0 GC&SU
• 1996 Kennesaw State 4-0 St. Joseph's (Ind.)
• 1997 Cal State Chico 13-12 Central Oklahoma
• 1998 Tampa 6-1 Kennesaw State
• 1999 Cal State Chico 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 Cal State Chico
• 2003 Central Missouri State 11-4 Tampa
• 2004 Delta State 12-8 Grand Valley State
• 2005 Florida Southern 12-9 North Florida
• 2006 Tampa 3-2 Cal State Chico
• 2007 Tampa 7-2 Columbus State

Division III

• 1976 Cal State Stanislaus 13-6 Ithaca
• 1977 Cal State Stanislaus 8-5 Brandeis
• 1978 Glassboro State 5-3 Marietta
• 1979 Glassboro State 3-0 Cal State Stanislaus
• 1980 Ithaca 12-5 Marietta
• 1981 Marietta 14-12 (12) Ithaca
• 1982 Eastern Connecticut State 11-6 Cal State Stanislaus
• 1983 Marietta 36-8 Otterbein
• 1984 Ramapo 5-4 Marietta
• 1985 Wisconsin-Oshkosh 11-6 Marietta
• 1986 Marietta 11-6 Ithaca
• 1987 Montclair State 13-12 (10) Wisconsin-Oshkosh
• 1988 Ithaca 7-5 Wisconsin-Oshkosh
• 1989 N.C. Wesleyan 8-7 (13) Cal State Stanislaus
• 1990 Eastern Connecticut State 8-1 Aurora
• 1991 Southern Maine 9-0 Trenton State
• 1992 William Paterson 3-1 Cal Lutheran
• 1993 Montclair State 3-1 Wisconsin-Oshkosh
• 1994 Wisconsin-Oshkosh 6-2 Wesleyan (Conn.)
• 1995 La Verne 5-3 Methodist
• 1996 William Paterson 6-5 Cal Lutheran
• 1997 Southern Maine 15-1 Wooster
• 1998 Eastern Connecticut State 16-1 Montclair State
• 1999 N.C. Wesleyan 1-0 St. Thomas (Minn.)
• 2000 Montclair State 6-2 St. Thomas (Minn.)
• 2001 St. Thomas (Minn.) 8-4 Marietta
• 2002 Eastern Connecticut State 8-0 Marietta
• 2003 Chapman 15-7 Christopher Newport
• 2004 George Fox 6-3 Eastern Connecticut State
• 2005 Wisconsin-Whitewater 11-4 Cortland State
• 2006 Marietta 7-2 Wheaton (Mass.)
• 2007 Kean 5-4 Emory

See also

• NCAA Division I Baseball Championship
• College baseball records

External links

• NCAA baseball
• College World Series
• Former U.S. President George H.W. Bush played in first College World Series
• 2006 NCAA College World Series Records BookPDF (8.90 MiB)
• 2006 NCAA Baseball Records BookPDF (3.07 MiB)
• ESPN: CWS historical results
• Historical results for every CWS

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