College World Series Totally Explained

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The College World Series or CWS is a baseball tournament that's 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.

History

Since 1950, the CWS 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 "College World Series" (CWS) is derived from that of the Major League Baseball World Series championship.

Contract extension

On April 30, 2008, the NCAA and the Omaha host committee announced a memorandum of understanding for a 25-year contract extension to keep the CWS there through 2035. A final agreement was expected to be announced by game 1 of the 2008 CWS on June 14.
However, the games won't be played at Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium, but instead at a new stadium that's to be built downtown, across from Qwest Center Omaha. The current contract expires in 2010, but it's unclear when the new stadium will be completed, and the fate of the current stadium has yet to be determined.(External Link

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2007

The 2007 CWS 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 consecutive national titles from 1970-74).
   In 2007, the eight teams that advanced to Omaha 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 designed for network television, with the final game on CBS on Saturday afternoon.
In 2003, the tournament returned entirely to cable television on ESPN, which had been covering all of the other games of the CWS since 1982 (and a partial schedule since 1980). (External Link

) 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 Division I tournament began with 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, USC in [[1998 College World Series|1998) had to battle back from the loser's bracket in the regional to advance to Omaha.

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. The Division III tournament has been held at Fox Cities Stadium in Grand Chute, Wisconsin since 2000. This division use a single-game championship rather than the best-of-three series.

Division II

The Division II tournament has been held at Riverwalk Stadium in Montgomery, Alabama (and previously Paterson Field) from 1985 through 2007. In 2008 the tournament moved to GCS Ballpark in Sauget, IL outside of St Louis, MO. This division use a single-game championship rather than the best-of-three series.

Division I

Year	Champion	Coach	Score	Runner-Up	Most Outstanding Player
1947	California	Clint Evans	8-7	Yale
1948	USC	Sam Barry	9-2	Yale
1949	Texas	Bibb Falk	10-3	Wake Forest	Charles Teague, Wake Forest
1950	Texas	Bibb Falk	3-0	Washington State	Ray VanCleef, Rutgers
1951	Oklahoma	Jack Baer	3-2	Tennessee	Sidney Hatfield, Tennessee
1952	Holy Cross	Jack Barry	8-4	Missouri	James O'Neill, Holy Cross
1953	Michigan	Ray Fisher	7-5	Texas	J.L. Smith, Texas
1954	Missouri	Hi Simmons	4-1	Rollins	Tom Yewcic, Michigan State
1955	Wake Forest	Taylor Sanford	7-6	Western Michigan	Tom Borland, Oklahoma A&M
1956	Minnesota	Dick Siebert	12-1	Arizona	Jerry Thomas, Minnesota
1957	California	George Wolfman	1-0	Penn State	Cal Emery, Penn State
1958	USC	Rod Dedeaux	8-7	Missouri	Bill Thom, USC
1959	Oklahoma State	Toby Greene	5-3	Arizona	Jim Dobson, Oklahoma State
1960	Minnesota	Dick Siebert	2-1	USC	John Erickson, Minnesota
1961	USC	Rod Dedeaux	1-0	Oklahoma State	Littleton Fowler, Oklahoma State
1962	Michigan	Don Lund	5-4	Santa Clara	Bob Garibaldi, Santa Clara
1963	USC	Rod Dedeaux	5-2	Arizona	Bud Hollowell, USC
1964	Minnesota	Dick Siebert	5-1	Missouri	Joe Ferris, Maine
1965	Arizona State	Bobby Winkles	2-1	Ohio State	Sal Bando, Arizona State
1966	Ohio State	Marty Karow	8-2	Oklahoma State	Steve Arlin, Ohio State
1967	Arizona State	Bobby Winkles	11-2	Houston	Ron Davini, Arizona State
1968	USC	Rod Dedeaux	4-3	Southern Illinois	Bill Seinsoth, USC
1969	Arizona State	Bobby Winkles	10-1	Tulsa	John Dolinsek, Arizona State
1970	USC	Rod Dedeaux	2-1	Florida State	Gene Ammann, Florida State
1971	USC	Rod Dedeaux	7-2	Southern Illinois	Jerry Tabb, Tulsa
1972	USC	Rod Dedeaux	1-0	Arizona State	Russ McQueen, USC
1973	USC	Rod Dedeaux	4-3	Arizona State	Dave Winfield, Minnesota
1974	USC	Rod Dedeaux	7-3	Miami (FL)	George Milke, USC
1975	Texas	Cliff Gustafson	5-1	South Carolina	Mickey Reichenbach, Texas
1976	Arizona	Jerry Kindall	7-1	Eastern Michigan	Steve Powers, Arizona
1977	Arizona State	Jim Brock	2-1	South Carolina	Bob Horner, Arizona State
1978	USC	Rod Dedeaux	10-3	Arizona State	Rod Boxberger, USC
1979	Cal State Fullerton	Augie Garrido	2-1	Arkansas	Tony Hudson, Cal State Fullerton
1980	Arizona	Jerry Kindall	5-3	Hawaii	Terry Francona, Arizona
1981	Arizona State	Jim Brock	7-4	Oklahoma State	Stan Holmes, Arizona State
1982	Miami (FL)	Ron Fraser	9-3	Wichita State	Dan Smith, Miami (FL)
1983	Texas	Cliff Gustafson	4-3	Alabama	Calvin Schiraldi, Texas
1984	Cal State Fullerton	Augie Garrido	3-1	Texas	John Fishel, Cal State Fullerton
1985	Miami (FL)	Ron Fraser	10-6	Texas	Greg Ellena, Miami (FL)
1986	Arizona	Jerry Kindall	10-2	Florida State	Mike Senne, Arizona
1987	Stanford	Mark Marquess	9-5	Oklahoma State	Paul Carey, Stanford
1988	Stanford	Mark Marquess	9-4	Arizona State	Lee Plemel, Stanford
1989	Wichita State	Gene Stephenson	5-3	Texas	Greg Brummett, Wichita State
1990	Georgia	Steve Webber	2-1	Oklahoma State	Mike Rebhan, Georgia
1991	LSU	Skip Bertman	6-3	Wichita State	Gary Hymel, LSU
1992	Pepperdine	Andy Lopez	3-2	Cal State Fullerton	Phil Nevin, Cal State Fullerton
1993	LSU	Skip Bertman	8-0	Wichita State	Todd Walker, LSU
1994	Oklahoma	Larry Cochell	13-5	Georgia Tech	Chip Glass, Oklahoma
1995	Cal State Fullerton	Augie Garrido	11-5	USC	Mark Kotsay, Cal State Fullerton
1996	LSU	Skip Bertman	9-8	Miami (FL)	Pat Burrell, Miami (FL)
1997	LSU	Skip Bertman	13-6	Alabama	Brandon Larson, LSU
1998	USC	Mike Gillespie	21-14	Arizona State	Wes Rachels, USC
1999	Miami (FL)	Jim Morris	6-5	Florida State	Marshall McDougall, Florida State
2000	LSU	Skip Bertman	6-5	Stanford	Trey Hodges, LSU
2001	Miami (FL)	Jim Morris	12-1	Stanford	Charlton Jimerson, Miami (FL)
2002	Texas	Augie Garrido	12-6	South Carolina	Huston Street, Texas
2003	Rice	Wayne Graham	4-3 (10 inn.) 3-8 14-2	Stanford	John Hudgins, Stanford
2004	Cal State Fullerton	George Horton	6-4 3-2	Texas	Jason Windsor, Cal State Fullerton
2005	Texas	Augie Garrido	4-2 6-2	Florida	David Maroul, Texas
2006	Oregon State	Pat Casey	3-4 11-7 3-2	North Carolina	Jonah Nickerson, Oregon State
2007	Oregon State	Pat Casey	11-4 9-3	North Carolina	Jorge Luis Reyes, Oregon State

CWS appearances & titles

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Bold indicates team won the CWS that year

School	Appearances	Titles	Years
Alabama	5		1950, 1983, 1996, 1997, 1999
Arizona	15	3	1954, 1955, 1956, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1963, 1966, 1970, 1976, 1979, 1980, 1985, 1986, 2004
Arizona State	20	5	1964, 1965, 1967, 1969, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1987, 1988, 1993, 1994, 1998, 2005, 2007
Arkansas	5		1979, 1985, 1987, 1989, 2004
Auburn	4		1967, 1976, 1994, 1997
Baylor	3		1977, 1978, 2005
Boston College	4		1953, 1960, 1961, 1967
Bradley	2		1950, 1956
BYU	2		1968, 1971
California	5	2	1947, 1957, 1980, 1988, 1992
Cal State Fullerton	15	4	1975, 1979, 1982, 1984, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007
Cal State-Los Angeles	1		1977
Citadel	1		1990
Clemson	11		1958, 1959, 1976, 1977, 1980, 1991, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2002, 2006
Colgate	1		1955
Colorado State	1		1950
Connecticut	5		1957, 1959, 1965, 1972, 1979
Creighton	1		1991
Dartmouth	1		1970
Delaware	1		1970
Duke	3		1952, 1953, 1961
Eastern Michigan	2		1975, 1976
Florida	5		1988, 1991, 1996, 1998, 2005
Florida State	18		1957, 1962, 1963, 1965, 1970, 1975, 1980, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000
Fresno State	3		1959, 1988, 1991
Georgia	5	1	1987, 1990, 2001, 2004, 2006
Georgia Southern	2		1973, 1990
Georgia Tech	3		1994, 2002, 2006
Harvard	4		1968, 1971, 1973, 1974
Hawaii	1		1980
Holy Cross	4	1	1952, 1958, 1962, 1963
Houston	2		1953, 1967
Indiana State	1		1986
Iowa	1		1972
Iowa State	2		1957, 1970
Ithaca	1		1962
James Madison	1		1983
Kansas	1		1993
Lafayette	4		1953, 1954, 1958, 1965
Long Beach State	4		1989, 1991, 1993, 1998
Louisiana-Lafayette	1		2000
Louisville	1		2007
Loyola Marymount	1		1986
LSU	13	5	1986, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2004
Maine	7		1964, 1976, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1986
Massachusetts	2		1954, 1969
Miami (FL)	22	4	1974, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2006
Michigan	7	2	1953, 1962, 1978, 1980, 1981, 1983, 1984
Michigan State	1		1954
Minnesota	5	3	1956, 1960, 1964, 1973, 1977
Mississippi	4		1956, 1964, 1969, 1972
Mississippi State	8		1971, 1979, 1981, 1985, 1990, 1997, 1998, 2007
Missouri	6	1	1952, 1954, 1958, 1962, 1963, 1964
Missouri State	1		2003
Nebraska	3		2001, 2002, 2005
New Hampshire	1		1956
New Orleans	1		1984
NYU	2		1956, 1969
North Carolina	6		1960, 1966, 1978, 1989, 2006, 2007
North Carolina State	1		1968
Northeastern	1		1966
Northern Colorado	10		1952, 1953, 1955, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1974
Notre Dame	2		1957, 2002
Ohio	1		1970
Ohio State	4	1	1951, 1965, 1966, 1967
Oklahoma	9	2	1951, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1992, 1994, 1995
Oklahoma State	19	1	1954, 1955, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1990, 1993, 1996, 1999
Oral Roberts	1		1978
Oregon	1		1954
Oregon State	4	2	1952, 2005, 2006, 2007
Penn State	5		1952, 1957, 1959, 1963, 1973
Pepperdine	2	1	1979, 1992
Princeton	1		1951
Rice	6	1	1997, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007
Rider	1		1967
Rollins	1		1954
Rutgers	1		1950
St. John's (NY)	6		1949, 1960, 1966, 1968, 1978, 1980
St. Louis	1		1965
San Jose State	1		2000
Santa Clara	1		1962
Seton Hall	4		1964, 1971, 1974, 1975
South Carolina	8		1975, 1977, 1981, 1982, 1985, 2002, 2003, 2004
Southern California	21	12	1948, 1949, 1951, 1955, 1958, 1960, 1961, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1968, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1978, 1995, 1998, 2000, 2001
Southern Illinois	5		1968, 1969, 1971, 1974, 1977
Springfield	2		1951, 1955
Stanford	15	2	1953, 1967, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003
Syracuse	1		1961
Temple	2		1972, 1977
Tennessee	4		1951, 1995, 2001, 2005
Texas	32	6	1949, 1950, 1952, 1953, 1957, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1989, 1992, 1993, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005
Texas A&M	4		1951, 1964, 1993, 1999
Texas-Pan American	1		1971
Tufts	1		1950
Tulane	2		2001, 2005
Tulsa	2		1969, 1971
UC Irvine	1		2007
UCLA	2		1969, 1997
Utah	1		1951
Wake Forest	2	1	1949, 1955
Washington State	4		1950, 1956, 1965, 1976
Western Michigan	6		1952, 1955, 1958, 1959, 1961, 1963
Wichita State	7	1	1982, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1996
Wisconsin	1		1950
Wyoming	1		1956
Yale	2		1947, 1948

Most CWS wins (games)

Rank	School	Number
1	Texas	78
2	Southern California	74
3	Arizona State	59
4	Miami (FL)	46
T-5	Oklahoma State	38
T-5	Stanford	38
7	Cal State Fullerton	34
8	Arizona	33
9	LSU	29
10	Florida State	25

(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 EmoryFurther Information

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