List of NCAA Division I baseball programs
The following is a list of schools that participate in NCAA Division I baseball.[1] In the 2023 season, 300 Division I schools competed. These teams compete to go to the 64-team Division I baseball tournament and then to Omaha, Nebraska, and Charles Schwab Field, for the eight-team Men's College World Series (MCWS).
Conference affiliations are current for the upcoming 2024 NCAA baseball season. Years of conference changes, indicated in footnotes, reflect baseball seasons, which take place in the calendar year after a conference change takes effect. Numbers of appearances in the NCAA Tournament and MCWS, plus MCWS titles, are current through the 2023 college baseball season.[2][3]
Division I programs
Schools in transition
These schools are in transition from Division II or III to Division I. For scheduling purposes, they are considered to be Division I institutions, but they will not be eligible for the NCAA tournament until completing the transition.
School | Nickname | State | Home field | Future conference | National titles | Full membership |
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University of West Georgia | Wolves | Georgia | Cole Field | ASUN | July 2028[18] |
See also
Notes
- Kennesaw State joins C-USA in 2025.
- Oklahoma State opened the 2020 season at Allie P. Reynolds Stadium. O'Brate Stadium was scheduled to open in late March 2020, by which time the season had been canceled.
- Dallas Baptist is an affiliate of Conference USA, and primarily plays in the Division II Lone Star Conference
- Purdue University Fort Wayne (PFW) did not exist until the 2018–19 school year, having been established as one of the two new institutions formed when the Indiana University and Purdue University systems dissolved Indiana University – Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW). The IPFW athletic program was inherited by PFW, and shortly before the institutional split, the athletic program branding was changed from "Fort Wayne" to "Purdue Fort Wayne".
- Coppin State, Delaware State, Maryland Eastern Shore, and Norfolk State are affiliates of the Northeast Conference, and primarily play in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference
- Arizona, Arizona State, and Utah join the Big 12 in 2025.
- Oregon, UCLA, USC and Washington join the Big Ten in 2025.
- Northern Colorado is an affiliate of the Summit League, and primarily plays in the Big Sky Conference
- Marshall plans to open a new on-campus ballpark for the 2024 season.
- Sacramento State is an affiliate of the WAC, and primarily plays in the Big Sky Conference
- UTRGV was founded in 2013 and began full operation in 2015, following the merger of two University of Texas System campuses—the NCAA Division I University of Texas–Pan American (UTPA) and the University of Texas at Brownsville, a member of the NAIA. The former UTPA athletic program became the UTRGV program after the merger; UTRGV is therefore credited with all of UTPA's appearances in the NCAA tournament.
References
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- "2017 College World Series: NCAA Division I Baseball Championship bracket announced". May 30, 2017. Retrieved May 31, 2017.
- "Division I Championship History". Retrieved June 28, 2017.
- "Division I Baseball Championship Results" (PDF). NCAA. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 6, 2014. Retrieved May 19, 2015.
- "Baseball Championship History". NCAA. Retrieved May 19, 2015.
- "Championship History (baseball)" (PDF). NAIA. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 13, 2012. Retrieved May 19, 2015.
- "Div II Baseball Championship History". NCAA. Retrieved May 19, 2015.
- "DONE D-1 DEAL". wdrb.com. June 17, 2019. Retrieved June 18, 2019.
- "Le Moyne College Accepts Invitation to Join Northeast Conference" (Press release). Northeast Conference. May 10, 2023. Retrieved May 14, 2023.
- "Lindenwood Announces Transition to NCAA Division I and Ohio Valley Conference". Lindenwood Lions. February 23, 2022. Retrieved February 24, 2022.
- "Queens University of Charlotte accepts invitation to NCAA Division I conference". The Charlotte Observer. May 6, 2022. Retrieved May 8, 2022.
- "St. Thomas receives NCAA waiver to join The Summit League in 2021–22". Summit League. Sioux Falls, South Dakota. July 15, 2020. Retrieved May 6, 2021.
- "USI announces OVC as partner for NCAA reclassification" (Press release). Southern Indiana Screaming Eagles. February 9, 2022. Retrieved February 10, 2022.
- "Stonehill Announces Transition to NCAA Division I for 2022-23 Academic Year". Stonehill Skyhawks. April 5, 2022. Retrieved April 5, 2022.
- "Tarleton State University to Join Western Athletic Conference in 2020-21" (Press release). Western Athletic Conference. November 12, 2019. Retrieved December 1, 2019.
- "CSU Bakersfield, UC San Diego to Join Big West Conference" (Press release). Big West Conference. November 27, 2017. Retrieved December 11, 2017.
- "Blazing a New Trail: Dixie State Accepts Invitation to Join Western Athletic Conference" (Press release). Dixie State Trailblazers. January 11, 2019. Retrieved January 25, 2019.
- Campbell, Colton (September 8, 2023). "UWG Athletics to Transition to NCAA Division I". UWG. Retrieved September 26, 2023.