NCAA Division II Baseball Tournament

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.

NCAA Division II Baseball Tournament
Current season, competition or edition:
2020 NCAA Division II Baseball Tournament
SportCollege baseball
Founded1968
No. of teams56
Most recent
champion(s)
Tampa (8th title)
Most titlesFlorida Southern (9 titles)
Official websiteNCAA.com

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)
Year Site Stadium Championship
Champion Score Runner-up
1968
Details
Springfield, MO Meador Park Chapman11–0Delta State
1969
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Illinois State12–0Southwest Missouri State
1970
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San Fernando Valley State2–1Nicholls State
1971
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Florida Southern4–0Central Michigan
1972
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Springfield, IL Lanphier Park Florida Southern5–1Cal State Northridge
1973
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UC Irvine9–6Ithaca
1974
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UC Irvine14–1LSU–New Orleans
1975
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Florida Southern10–7Marietta
1976
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Cal Poly Pomona17–3SIU Edwardsville
1977
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UC Riverside4–1Eckerd
1978
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Florida Southern7–2Delta State
1979
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Valdosta State3–2Florida Southern
1980
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Riverside, CA Riverside Sports Complex Cal Poly Pomona13–6New Haven
1981
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Florida Southern9–0Eastern Illinois
1982
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UC Riverside10–1Florida Southern
1983
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Cal Poly Pomona9–7Jacksonville State
1984
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Cal State Northridge10–5Florida Southern
1985
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Montgomery, AL Paterson Field Florida Southern15–5Cal Poly Pomona
1986
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Troy State5–0Columbus State
1987
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Troy State7–5Tampa
1988
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Florida Southern5–4Sacramento State
1989
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Cal Poly9–5New Haven
1990
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Jacksonville State12–8Cal State Northridge
1991
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Jacksonville State20–4Missouri Southern State
1992
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Tampa11–8Mansfield
1993
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Tampa7–5Cal Poly
1994
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Central Missouri State14–9Florida Southern
1995
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Florida Southern15–0Georgia College
1996
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Kennesaw State4–0Saint Joseph's (Ind.)
1997
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Chico State13–12Central Oklahoma
1998
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Tampa6–1Kennesaw State
1999
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Chico State11–5Kennesaw State
2000
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Southeastern Oklahoma7–2Fort Hays State
2001
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St. Mary's (Tex.)11–3Central Missouri State
2002
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Columbus State5–3Chico State
2003
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Central Missouri State11–4Tampa
2004
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Riverwalk Stadium Delta State12–8Grand Valley State
2005
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Florida Southern12–9North Florida
2006
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Tampa3–2Chico State
2007
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Tampa7–2Columbus State
2008
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Sauget, IL GCS Ballpark Mount Olive6–2Ouachita Baptist
2009
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Cary, NC USA Baseball National Training Complex Lynn2–1Emporia State
2010
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Southern Indiana6–4UC San Diego
2011
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West Florida12–2Winona State
2012
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West Chester9–0Delta State
2013
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Tampa8–2Minnesota State Mankato
2014
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Southern Indiana3–2Colorado Mesa
2015
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Tampa3–1Catawba
2016
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Nova Southeastern8–6Millersville
2017
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Grand Prairie, TX AirHogs Stadium West Chester5–2UC San Diego
2018
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Cary, NC USA Baseball National Training Complex Augustana3–2Columbus State
2019
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Tampa3–1Colorado Mesa
2020
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Cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemicCancelled

Champions

Teams that no longer compete in Division II are in italics. All such teams now compete in Division I.

RankTeamTitles
1Florida Southern9
2Tampa8
3Cal Poly Pomona3
4Central Missouri
Chico State
Cal State Northridge
Jacksonville State
Southern Indiana
UC Irvine
UC Riverside
Troy
West Chester
2
5Augustana (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
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See also

References

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