NCAA Division II Baseball Championship

NCAA Division II Baseball Championship

Current season, competition or edition: 2015 NCAA Division II Baseball Championship
Sport	College baseball
Founded	1968
No. of teams	48
Most recent champion(s)	Tampa (7)
Official website	NCAA.com

The NCAA Division II Baseball Championship 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. [1]

University of Mount Olive and Town of Cary are co-hosts of the National Finals.

In 2015, Tampa claimed its seventh national championship, going unbeaten in both the South Regional and the National Finals. The Spartans defeated Catawba 3–1 May 30 in the Championship Game. Currently Florida Southern has won the most Division II baseball titles with nine.

Format

The 48-team tournament consists of a field of eight six-team double-elimination regionals. The eight regions are the Atlantic, Central, East, Midwest, South, Southeast, South Central and West. Teams are seeded Nos. 1-6. In most cases, the No. 1 seed is the host for the 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		Chapman	11–0	Delta State
1969 Details				Illinois State	12–0	Southwest Missouri State
1970 Details				San Fernando Valley State	2–1	Nicholls State
1971 Details				Florida Southern	4–0	Central Michigan
1972 Details	Springfield, IL	Lanphier Park		Florida Southern	5–1	Cal State Northridge
1973 Details				UC Irvine	9–6	Ithaca
1974 Details				UC Irvine	14–1	LSU–New Orleans
1975 Details				Florida Southern	10–7	Marietta
1976 Details				Cal Poly Pomona	17–3	SIU Edwardsville
1977 Details				UC Riverside	4–1	Eckerd
1978 Details				Florida Southern	7–2	Delta State
1979 Details				Valdosta State	3–2	Florida Southern
1980 Details	Riverside, CA	Riverside Sports Complex		Cal Poly Pomona	13–6	New Haven
1981 Details				Florida Southern	9–0	Eastern Illinois
1982 Details				UC Riverside	10–1	Florida Southern
1983 Details				Cal Poly Pomona	9–7	Jacksonville State
1984 Details				Cal State Northridge	10–5	Florida Southern
1985 Details	Montgomery, AL	Paterson Field		Florida Southern	15–5	Cal Poly Pomona
1986 Details				Troy State	5–0	Columbus State
1987 Details				Troy State	7–5	Tampa
1988 Details				Florida Southern	5–4	Sacramento State
1989 Details				Cal Poly	9–5	New Haven
1990 Details				Jacksonville State	12–8	Cal State Northridge
1991 Details				Jacksonville State	20–4	Missouri Southern State
1992 Details				Tampa	11–8	Mansfield
1993 Details				Tampa	7–5	Cal Poly
1994 Details				Central Missouri State	14–9	Florida Southern
1995 Details				Florida Southern	15–0	Georgia College
1996 Details				Kennesaw State	4–0	Saint Joseph's (Ind.)
1997 Details				Chico State	13–12	Central Oklahoma
1998 Details				Tampa	6–1	Kennesaw State
1999 Details				Chico State	11–5	Kennesaw State
2000 Details				[[{{{school}}}|Southeastern Oklahoma]]	7–2	[[{{{school}}}|Fort Hays State]]
2001 Details				[[{{{school}}}|St. Mary's (Tex.)]]	11–3	Central Missouri State
2002 Details				Columbus State	5–3	Chico State
2003 Details				Central Missouri State	11–4	Tampa
2004 Details		Riverwalk Stadium		Delta State	12–8	[[{{{school}}}|Grand Valley State]]
2005 Details				Florida Southern	12–9	[[{{{school}}}|North Florida]]
2006 Details				Tampa	3–2	Chico State
2007 Details				Tampa	7–2	Columbus State
2008 Details	Sauget, IL	GCS Ballpark		[[{{{school}}}|Mount Olive]]	6–2	[[{{{school}}}|Ouachita Baptist]]
2009 Details	Cary, NC	USA Baseball National Training Complex		[[{{{school}}}|Lynn]]	2–1	[[{{{school}}}|Emporia State]]
2010 Details				[[{{{school}}}|Southern Indiana]]	6–4	[[{{{school}}}|UC San Diego]]
2011 Details				[[{{{school}}}|West Florida]]	12–2	[[{{{school}}}|Winona State]]
2012 Details				[[{{{school}}}|West Chester]]	9–0	Delta State
2013 Details				Tampa	8–2	[[{{{school}}}|Minnesota State–Mankato]]
2014 Details				[[{{{school}}}|Southern Indiana]]	3–2	[[{{{school}}}|Colorado Mesa]]
2015 Details				Tampa	3–1	[[{{{school}}}|Catawba]]
2016 Details
2017 Details
2018 Details

Champions

Rank	Team	Titles
1	Florida Southern	9
2	Tampa	7
3	Cal Poly Pomona	3
4	Central Missouri Chico State Cal State Northridge Jacksonville State Southern Indiana UC Irvine UC Riverside Troy	2
5	Chapman Columbus State Delta State Illinois State Kennesaw State Lynn Mount Olive St. Mary's (TX) Southeastern Oklahoma State Valdosta State West Chester West Florida	1

See also

• NCAA Division I Baseball Championship
• NCAA Division III Baseball Championship
• National Club Baseball Association
• List of college baseball awards
• U.S. College Baseball Awards
• Pre-NCAA Baseball Champion