NCAA Division II baseball tournament

The NCAA Division II baseball tournament is an annual college baseball tournament 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 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 2026 championship. University of Mount Olive and Town of Cary are co-hosts of the National Finals.

NCAA Division II baseball tournament
Current season, competition or edition:
Current sports event 2022 NCAA Division II baseball tournament
SportCollege baseball
Founded1968
No. of teams56
Most recent
champion(s)		Angelo State (1st title)
Most titlesFlorida Southern (9 titles)
Official websiteNCAA.com

Currently, Florida Southern has won the most Division II baseball titles with nine.[1]

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 Host city Stadium Championship Results
Champion Score Runner-up
1968 Springfield, MO Meador Park Chapman (1)11–0Delta State
1969 Illinois State (1)12–0Southwest Missouri State
1970 Valley State (1)2–1Nicholls State
1971 Florida Southern (1)4–0Central Michigan
1972 Springfield, IL Lanphier Park Florida Southern (2)5–1Cal State Northridge
1973 UC Irvine (1)9–6Ithaca
1974 UC Irvine (2)14–1LSU–New Orleans
1975 Florida Southern (3)10–7Marietta
1976 Cal Poly Pomona (1)17–3SIU Edwardsville
1977 UC Riverside (1)4–1Eckerd
1978 Florida Southern (4)7–2Delta State
1979 Valdosta State (1)3–2Florida Southern
1980 Riverside, CA Riverside Sports Complex Cal Poly Pomona (2)13–6New Haven
1981 Florida Southern (5)9–0Eastern Illinois
1982 UC Riverside (2)10–1Florida Southern
1983 Cal Poly Pomona (3)9–7Jacksonville State
1984 Cal State Northridge (2)10–5Florida Southern
1985 Montgomery, AL Paterson Field Florida Southern (6)15–5Cal Poly Pomona
1986 Troy State (1)5–0Columbus State
1987 Troy State (2)7–5Tampa
1988 Florida Southern (7)5–4Sacramento State
1989 Cal Poly *9–5New Haven
1990 Jacksonville State (1)12–8Cal State Northridge
1991 Jacksonville State (2)20–4Missouri Southern State
1992 Tampa (1)11–8Mansfield
1993 Tampa (2)7–5Cal Poly
1994 Central Missouri (1)14–9Florida Southern
1995 Florida Southern (8)15–0Georgia College
1996 Kennesaw State (1)4–0Saint Joseph's (Ind.)
1997 Chico State (1)13–12Central Oklahoma
1998 Tampa (3)6–1Kennesaw State
1999 Chico State (2)11–5Kennesaw State
2000 Southeastern Oklahoma (1)7–2Fort Hays State
2001 St. Mary's (TX) (1)11–3Central Missouri
2002 Columbus State (1)5–3Chico State
2003 Central Missouri (2)11–4Tampa
2004 Riverwalk Stadium Delta State (1)12–8Grand Valley State
2005 Florida Southern (9)12–9North Florida
2006 Tampa (4)3–2Chico State
2007 Tampa (5)7–2Columbus State
2008 Sauget, IL GCS Ballpark Mount Olive (1)6–2Ouachita Baptist
2009 Cary, NC USA Baseball National Training Complex Lynn (1)2–1Emporia State
2010 Southern Indiana (1)6–4UC San Diego
2011 West Florida (1)12–2Winona State
2012 West Chester (1)9–0Delta State
2013 Tampa (6)8–2Minnesota State Mankato
2014 Southern Indiana (2)3–2Colorado Mesa
2015 Tampa (7)3–1Catawba
2016 Nova Southeastern (1)8–6Millersville
2017 Grand Prairie, TX AirHogs Stadium West Chester (2)5–2UC San Diego
2018 Cary, NC USA Baseball National Training Complex Augustana (SD) (1)3–2Columbus State
2019 Tampa (8)3–1Colorado Mesa
2020 Cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic
2021 Cary, NC USA Baseball National Training Complex Wingate (1)5–3Central Missouri
2022 North Greenville (1)5–3Point Loma
2023 Angelo State (1) 6–5 Rollins
2024
2025
2026

* Participation vacated by the NCAA Committee on Infractions

Champions

Teams that no longer compete in Division II are in italics. All such teams now compete in Division I, save for Chapman, who competes in Division III.

RankTeamTitles
1Florida Southern9
2Tampa8
3Cal Poly Pomona3
4Central Missouri2
Chico State
Cal State Northridge
Jacksonville State
Southern Indiana
UC Irvine
UC Riverside
Troy
West Chester
5Augustana (SD)1
Chapman
Columbus State
Delta State
Illinois State
Kennesaw State
Lynn
Mount Olive
North Greenville
Nova Southeastern
St. Mary's (TX)
Southeastern Oklahoma State
Valdosta State
West Florida
Wingate
  • Schools highlighted in pink are closed or no longer sponsor athletics.
  • Schools highlighted in yellow have reclassified athletics from NCAA Division II.

See also

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