2010 NCAA Division I baseball tournament

The 2010 NCAA Division I baseball tournament began on Friday, June 4, 2010, as part of the 2010 NCAA Division I baseball season. The 64-team double elimination tournament concluded with the 2010 College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska. This was the final year at Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium, the host venue since 1950.
The [2010 South Carolina Gamecocks baseball|South Carolina Gamecocks baseball team|South Carolina Gamecocks] won two elimination games against archrival [2010 Clemson Tigers baseball|Clemson Tigers baseball team|Clemson] in the College World Series semifinals, then defeated the [2010 2010 UCLA Bruins baseball team|UCLA Bruins baseball team|UCLA Bruins] in the second game of the finals on a walk-off single by Whit Merrifield to win the national championship. It was the school's first championship in baseball and second team championship overall.

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.

School	Conference	Record	Berth	Last NCAA appearance
	America East	29–25	Won America East Tourney	2008
	Atlantic 10	33–27	Won Atlantic 10 Tourney	[2006 NCAA NCAA Division I\|Division I baseball tournament\|2006]
[2010 2010 Florida State Seminoles baseball team\|Florida State Seminoles baseball team\|Florida State]	ACC	42–17	Won ACC Tourney	2009
	Atlantic Sun	37–22	Won A-Sun Tourney	First NCAA Appearance
	Big 12	40–19	Won Big 12 Tourney	2009
	Big East	40–18	Won Big East Tourney	2008
	Big South	51–7	Won Big South Tourney	2009
	Big Ten	30–28	Won Big Ten Tourney	2009
	Big West	41–15	Regular-season champion	2009
VCU	Colonial	34–24–1	Won CAA Tourney	2007
	Conference USA	35–22	Won Conference USA Tourney	2009
	Horizon	33–24	Won Horizon Tourney	2002
	Ivy	26–17	Won Ivy championship series	2009
	MAAC	36–21	Won MAAC Tourney	2009
	MAC	39–23	Won MAC Tourney	2009
	MEAC	35–20	Won MEAC Tourney	2009
	Missouri Valley	31–22	Won MVC Tourney	1994
[2010 2010 TCU Horned Frogs baseball team\|TCU Horned Frogs baseball team\|TCU]	Mountain West	46–11	Won MWC Tourney	2009
	Northeast	33–21	Won NEC Tourney	2004
	Ohio Valley	32–24	Won OVC Tourney	2006
[2010 2010 Arizona State Sun Devils baseball team\|Arizona State Sun Devils baseball team\|Arizona State]	Pac-10	47–8	Regular-season champion	2009
	Patriot	25–33	Won Patriot Tourney	2008
LSU	SEC	40–20	Won SEC Tourney	2009
The Citadel	Southern	42–20	Won Southern Tourney	2004
	Southland	35–24	Won Southland Tourney	2004
	SWAC	22–30	Won SWAC Tourney	1985
	Summit	35–25	Won Summit Tourney	2009
	Sun Belt	36–23	Won Sun Belt Tourney	2002
	West Coast	36–20	Regular-season champion	2008
	WAC	33–26	Won WAC Tourney	2006

National seeds

Bold indicates CWS participant.

Arizona State
[2010 2010 Texas Longhorns baseball team|Texas Longhorns baseball team|Texas]
[2010 2010 Florida Gators baseball team|Florida Gators baseball team|Florida]
[2010 2010 Virginia Cavaliers baseball team|Virginia Cavaliers baseball team|Virginia]
UCLA

Regionals and super regionals

Bold indicates winner. * indicates extra innings.

Clemson Super Regional

Hosted by Clemson at Doug Kingsmore Stadium

Myrtle Beach Super Regional

''NOTE: Because Vrooman Field at Charles Watson Stadium was inadequate for NCAA postseason play, Coastal Carolina-hosted games were played at BB&T Coastal Field.''

Tallahassee Super Regional

Hosted by Florida State at Dick Howser Stadium

College World Series

Bracket

The CWS uses two four-team brackets with double elimination format; teams play games until they accumulate two losses and no team may play a team from the other bracket. The winners of the two four-team brackets play a best-of-three series for the championship.

All-Tournament Team

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

Position	Player	School
P	Trevor Bauer	UCLA
P	Matt Purke	TCU
C	Bryan Holaday	TCU
1B	Christian Walker
2B	Cody Regis	UCLA
3B	John Hinson	Clemson
SS	Taylor Featherston	TCU
OF	Beau Amaral	UCLA
OF	Jackie Bradley Jr.
OF	Evan Marzilli
DH	Brady Thomas

Final standings

Seeds listed below indicate national seeds only

Place	School	Record
1st	South Carolina	11–1
2nd	#6 UCLA	8–4
3rd	Clemson	7–4
3rd	TCU	8–3
5th	Florida State	6–3
5th	Oklahoma	6–3
7th	#1 Arizona State	5–2
7th	#3 Florida	5–2
9th	Alabama	5–3
9th	Arkansas	3–3
9th	Cal State Fullerton	5–3
9th	#4 Coastal Carolina	4–3
9th	Miami	3–3
9th	#2 Texas	4–2
9th	Vanderbilt	5–3
9th	#5 Virginia	4–3
17th	Auburn	3–2
17th	Baylor	2–2
17th	College of Charleston	2–2
17th	Florida Atlantic	2–2
17th	#8 Georgia Tech	2–2
17th	Hawaii	2–2
17th	#7 Louisville	2–2
17th	Minnesota	2–2
17th	North Carolina	2–2
17th	Oregon	2–2
17th	Rice	2–2
17th	St. John's	3–2
17th	Texas A&M	3–2
17th	UC Irvine	2–2
17th	Virginia Tech	2–2
17th	Washington State	3–2
33rd	Arizona	1–2
33rd	Connecticut	1–2
33rd	Dartmouth	1–2
33rd	Illinois State	1–2
33rd	Kansas State	1–2
33rd	Louisiana–Lafayette	1–2
33rd	LSU	1–2
33rd	Mercer	1–2
33rd	New Mexico	1–2
33rd	Ole Miss	1–2
33rd	Oral Roberts	1–2
33rd	Oregon State	1–2
33rd	San Diego	1–2
33rd	Southern Miss	1–2
33rd	Stony Brook	1–2
33rd	The Citadel	1–2
49th	Bethune–Cookman	0–2
49th	Bucknell	0–2
49th	California	0–2
49th	Central Connecticut	0–2
49th	Elon	0–2
49th	FIU	0–2
49th	Grambling State	0–2
49th	Jacksonville State	0–2
49th	Kent State	0–2
49th	Lamar	0–2
49th	Milwaukee	0–2
49th	NC State	0–2
49th	Rider	0–2
49th	Saint Louis	0–2
49th	Stanford	0–2
49th	VCU	0–2

# denotes national seed

Record by conference

The columns RF, SR, WS, NS, CS, and NC respectively stand for the regional finals, super regionals, College World Series, national semifinals, championship series, and national champion.

Tournament notes

Round 1

15 of 16 No. 1 seeds won their first-round games, with Cal State Fullerton being the only No. 1 seed to lose.
Eight No. 3 seeds won their first-round games in upsets.

Round 2

13 of 16 No. 1 seeds won their first 2 games. The others were: No. 4 Minnesota, No. 2 Clemson and No. 2 College of Charleston
Two No. 2 seeds were eliminated in two games: No. 2 California and No. 2 Stanford

Regional finals

13 No. 1 seeds and three No. 2 seeds advanced to the Super Regional; no No. 3 or No. 4 seeds advanced.
Georgia Tech and Louisville were the only national seeds to not advance to the Super Regional.

Super regionals

TCU qualified for its first ever College World Series by beating Texas.
Only 3 of 8 National Seeds qualified for the College World Series.

College World Series

NCBWA named TCU Head coach Jim Schlossnagle the 2010 National Coach of the Year.
Collegiate Baseball and Baseball America named South Carolina Head coach Ray Tanner the 2010 National Coach of the Year.
UCLA head coach John Savage was named the national Coach of the Year by College Baseball Insider.
South Carolina received the Opening Ceremonies award for highest team GPA of the eight schools that made it to Omaha.
Only one team from the 2009 CWS, Arizona State, returned for 2010.
This was the 18th consecutive year that the SEC has fielded at least one team in the College World Series.
South Carolina pitcher Matt Price and first baseman Christian Walker were named Freshman All-Americans by Baseball America.
UCLA center fielder Beau Amaral, who led the Bruins with a.354 batting average in 64 games, was named a second-team Freshman All-America selection by Baseball America.
UCLA pitchers Trevor Bauer and Gerrit Cole were named to the 2010 College All-America Team by Baseball America.

First and second rounds

TCU played in its first College World Series in school history.
Florida was the first team eliminated after its 8–5 loss to in-state rival Florida State.
Arizona State was eliminated after two games and became the first No. 1 overall seed team to go 0–2 in the CWS under the current 64-team format.
Florida State had a season-high 5 errors in its second loss to TCU.
In the first meeting between South Carolina and Oklahoma, the game was scheduled to start at 2:00 pm, but due to multiple weather delays the game did not end until after 11:00 pm.

Semi-finals

None of the four semi-finalists, UCLA, TCU, South Carolina and Clemson, had won a previous CWS title.
This CWS was the first since 2005 to feature an in-state rivalry in the final four with the meeting of South Carolina and Clemson.
Trevor Bauer, with 13 strikeouts on June 26, led the nation with 165 strikeouts; UCLA led all schools with 700 strikeouts.

Finals

UCLA played for its first-ever national championship in baseball.
More than 300,000 fans attended the men's CWS for the fourth consecutive year, and the total attendance of 330,922 ranks second all-time.
South Carolina won its first NCAA team national championship in any men's sport.
UCLA's runner-up finish was the best in program history.
Final game was the first championship to be decided in extra innings since 1970, and fifth all-time.
Whit Merrifield's 11th-inning RBI single was the first walk-off to decide a championship since 2000.
South Carolina became only the third school to win a CWS title after losing their opening game since the two-bracket format was adopted.
South Carolina set a CWS record with six straight wins after losing their first game, and became only the third school ever to record six victories in a CWS.
The CWS ended June 29, the latest ending date for the tournament. That record was broken in 2016.