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2009 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament

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Season
  
2009

Champions
  
LSU (6th title)

Teams
  
64

Finals Site
  
Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium Omaha, Nebraska

Runner-Up
  
Texas (33rd CWS Appearance)

Winning coach
  
Paul Mainieri (1st title)

The 2009 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament was held from May 29 through June 24, 2009 and is part of the 2009 NCAA Division I baseball season. The 64 NCAA Division I college baseball teams were selected out of an eligible 286 teams on May 25, 2009. Thirty teams were awarded an automatic bid as champions of their conference, and 34 teams were selected at-large by the NCAA Division I Baseball Committee.

Contents

The 2009 tournament culminated with 8 teams advancing to the College World Series at historic Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha, Nebraska beginning on June 13.

Automatic bids

Conference champions from 30 Division I conferences earned automatic bids to regionals. The remaining 34 spots were awarded to schools as at-large invitees.

National seeds

Bold indicates CWS participant.

  1. Texas (41-13-1)
  2. Cal State Fullerton (42-14)
  3. LSU (46-16)
  4. North Carolina (42-16)
  5. Arizona State (44-12)
  6. UC Irvine (43-13)
  7. Oklahoma (41-18)
  8. Florida (39-20)

Regional schedule

Regional rounds were held Friday, May 29 through Monday, June 1. Each regional followed a double elimination format, with 2 games each played on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, and one on Monday when needed.

Super Regional Schedule

Best-of-three super regionals were held Friday, June 5 through Monday, June 8. Four series were played Friday-Sunday and four series were played Saturday-Monday with the final day in each grouping if necessary.

Brackets

Bold indicates winner. * indicates extra innings.

Austin Super Regional

Hosted by Texas at UFCU Disch-Falk Field

  • The second round game between Texas and Boston College went 25 innings, the longest game in NCAA History.

    • Gainesville Super Regional

    Hosted by Florida at Alfred A. McKethan Stadium

    Tempe Super Regional

    Hosted by Arizona State at Packard Stadium

    Chapel Hill Super Regional

    Hosted by North Carolina at Boshamer Stadium

    Fullerton Super Regional

    Hosted by Cal State Fullerton at Goodwin Field

    Tallahassee Super Regional

    Hosted by Florida State at Dick Howser Stadium

  • The 37 runs scored by Florida State in the Tallahassee Regional championship were the most scored by a team in NCAA Tournament history

    • Oxford Super Regional

    Hosted by Ole Miss Rebels at Swayze Field

    Baton Rouge Super Regional

    Hosted by LSU at Alex Box Stadium

    All Tournament Team

    The following players were members of the All-Tournament Team.

    Regionals

  • ESPNU broadcast every game from both the Tallahassee and Irvine Regionals.
  • Comcast/Charter Sports Southeast broadcast every game from the Clemson Regional.
  • Cox Sports (Louisiana) broadcast every game from the Baton Rouge Regional.
  • Sun Sports broadcast selected games from the Gainesville Regional.

    • Super Regionals

  • All super-regional games were shown on ESPN, ESPN2 or ESPNU on television and ESPN360 through online streaming video.

    • College World Series

  • All College World Series games were shown on ESPN, ESPN2 or ESPNU on television and ESPN360 through online streaming video.

    • References

    2009 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament Wikipedia
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