Sport College baseball No. of teams 48 Official website NCAA.com | Founded 1968 Most recent
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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.