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The 2012 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament begins on Friday, June 1, 2012 as part of the 2012 NCAA Division I baseball season. The 64 team double elimination tournament will conclude with the 2012 College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska on June 30, 2012.

The 64 NCAA Division I college baseball teams were selected out of an eligible 300 teams.[1] Thirty teams were awarded an automatic bid as champions of their conferences, and 34 teams were selected at-large by the NCAA Division I Baseball Committee.

Bids

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.[2]

School Conference Record (Conf) Berth Last NCAA Appearance
Stony Brook America East 46-11 (21-3) Won Tournament 2010
Georgia Tech ACC 36-24 (12-18) Won Tournament 2011
Belmont Atlantic Sun 39-22 (17-10) Won Tournament 2011
Dayton Atlantic 10 31-28 (17-7) Won Tournament First appearance
Missouri Big 12 32-26 (10-14) Won Tournament 2009
St. John's Big East 37-21 (18-9) Won Tournament 2011
Coastal Carolina Big South 41-17 (18-5) Won Tournament 2011
Purdue Big Ten 44-12 (17-7) Won Tournament 1987
Cal State Fullerton Big West 35-19 (17-7) Won Regular Season 2011
UNC Wilmington Colonial 38-21 (24-6) Won Tournament 2008
UAB Conference USA 32-28 (9-15) Won Tournament 1991
Valparaiso Horizon 35-23 (22-8) Won Tournament 1968
Cornell Ivy League 31-15 (14-6) Won Tournament 2010
Manhattan Metro Atlantic 33-25 (18-6) Won Tournament 2011
Kent State Mid-American 41-17 (24-3) Won Tournament 2011
Bethune–Cookman Mid-Eastern 34-25 (18-5) Won Tournament 2011
Creighton Missouri Valley 26-28 (6-14) Won Tournament 2011
New Mexico Mountain West 36-22 (18-6) Won Tournament 2011
Sacred Heart Northeast 25-30 (19-13) Won Tournament 2011
Austin Peay Ohio Valley 38-22 (19-7) Won Tournament 2011
UCLA Pacific 12 42-14 (20-10) Won Regular Season 2011
Army Patriot 41-13 (18-2) Won Tournament 2009
Mississippi State Southeastern 39-22 (16-14) Won Tournament 2011
Samford Southern 39-21 (19-11) Won Tournament First appearance
Texas–Arlington Southland 36-23 (19-14) Won Tournament 2006
Prairie View A&M Southwestern Athletic 33-16 (15-8) Won Tournament 2007
Oral Roberts Summit 37-23 (17-6) Won Tournament 2011
Louisiana–Monroe Sun Belt 31-28 (15-15) Won Tournament 2000
Pepperdine West Coast 34-21 (16-8) Won Regular Season 2008
Fresno State Western Athletic 30-26 (8-10) Won Tournament 2011

National seeds

These eight teams will automatically host a Super Regional should they advance to that round.

Bold indicates CWS participant.

  1. Florida
  2. UCLA
  3. Florida State
  4. Baylor
  5. Oregon
  6. North Carolina
  7. LSU
  8. South Carolina

Regionals and Super Regionals

Bold indicates winner. * indicates extra innings.

Gainesville Super Regional

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Columbia Super Regional

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Los Angeles Super Regional

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Baton Rouge Super Regional

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Tucson Super Regional

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Tallahassee Super Regional

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Eugene Super Regional

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Waco Super Regional

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Tournament notes

Round 1

  • Florida's Jonathon Crawford threw a no-hitter against Bethune-Cookman, the seventh no-hitter in NCAA tournament history and the first since 1991.[3]
  • Kent State defeated Kentucky in 21 innings, the second longest game in NCAA tournament history.[4]
  • Baylor lost to Oral Roberts, the first national seed to lose their round one game since Florida State and Georgia both did so in 2008. Both Georgia and Florida State went on to make the College World Series, with Georgia losing in the championship series.[5]

Round 2

  • Miami (FL) became the first #1 seed to go 0-2 in Regional play since San Diego in 2007.[6]

Regional Finals

  • Arizona became the first team ever to score at least 15 runs in every Regional game. They were the first team since Arkansas in 2009 to score 10 or more runs in every Regional game.[5]
  • Stony Brook became the third #4 seed ever to win a Regional, joining Missouri in 2006 and Fresno State in 2008.[5]

Super Regionals

  • Kent State, Oregon, St. John's, and Stony Brook are all appearing in the Super Regionals for the first time.[7][8][9][10]

Television coverage

Selection shows

The NCAA Division I Road to Omaha Selection Show aired on ESPN on May 28, 2012.

Competition

  • Regionals:
The Columbia and Tucson Regionals will be broadcast on ESPNU and ESPN3.
The College Station, Gainesville, and Palo Alto Regionals will be broadcast on ESPN.
The Baton Rouge Regional was broadcast on Comcast SportsNet Northwest, Cox Sports Television, CSS.
The Gary Regional was broadcast on Big Ten Network.
  • Super Regionals: All games will be broadcast on either ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPN3, and/or ESPN Mobile.
  • College World Series: Every game will be broadcast on either ESPN or ESPN2.

Reference

  1. ^ Team Directory
  2. ^ Rogers, Kendall. "Tracking Automatic Bids". Perfect Game USA. Retrieved 29 May 2012.
  3. ^ DiRocco, Michael. "Jonathon Crawford throws no-hitter". GatorNation. Retrieved 2 June 2012.
  4. ^ AP (2 June 2012). "NCAA baseball tournament: Kent State outlasts Kentucky in 21 innings". Detroit Free Press. Retrieved 2 June 2012.
  5. ^ a b c "All-Time Championship Tournament Records and Results" (PDF). NCAA.org. Retrieved 4 June 2012.
  6. ^ King, Jason. "Surprises stir up NCAA tournament". Retrieved 4 June 2012.
  7. ^ Fentress, Aaron (4 June 2012). "Eugene Super Regional: Oregon Ducks prepare for unfamiliar Kent State Golden Flashes". The Oregonian. Retrieved 5 June 2012.
  8. ^ "Ducks Win Regional, Advance To First Ever Super Regional". KEZI. Retrieved 5 June 2012.
  9. ^ AP (4 June 2012). "St. John's Advance to Baseball Super Regional". New York Times. Retrieved 5 June 2012.
  10. ^ AP (5 June 2012). "Stony Brook Advances to its First N.C.A.A. Super Regional". New York Times. Retrieved 5 June 2012.
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