2019 NCAA Division I baseball tournament


The 2019 NCAA Division I baseball tournament was a tournament of 64-teams to determine the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I national champion for the 2019 season. The 73rd annual edition of the tournament began on May 31, 2019, and concluded with the 2019 College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska, which started on June 15 and ended on June 26.
Summit League champion Omaha made their first appearance in the tournament.
As a result of a worldwide COVID-19 pandemic that started in late 2019 and subsequently forced the cancellation of the remainder of the 2020 season and [2020 NCAA NCAA Division I|Division I baseball tournament|tournament], this would be the last tournament held until 2021.

Tournament procedure

A total of 64 teams entered the 2019 tournament. 31 automatic bids were awarded to each program that won their conference's tournament or regular season. The remaining 33 bids were "at-large", with selections extended by the NCAA Selection Committee.
The Selection Committee seeded the national seeds from 1 to 16, each of whom would host their respective regional.
The selections and seedings were completed and revealed on Monday, May 27, 2019, at 12 p.m. EDT on ESPNU.
All qualifying teams were placed into 16 regional double-elimination brackets of four teams. The winners of each regional advanced to a Super Regional in a best-of-three format to advance to the College World Series.

Schedule and venues

The following are the sites that hosted each round of the tournament:
Regionals
Super Regionals
College World Series

Bids

Automatic bids

SchoolConferenceRecord BerthLast NCAA appearance
America East31–21 Tournament2015 (Fort Worth Regional)
American28–29 Tournament1974 (Minneapolis District)
[2019 2019 North Carolina Tar Heels baseball team|North Carolina Tar Heels baseball team|North Carolina]Atlantic Coast46–19 Tournament2018 (College World Series)
Atlantic Sun42–19 Tournament2014 (Charlottesville Regional)
Atlantic 1038–22 Tournament1998 (East Regional)
Big East38–11 Tournament2012 (Los Angeles Regional)
Big South35–19 Tournament2018 (Athens Regional)
Big Ten35–25 Tournament2018 (Greenville Regional)
Big 1236–18 Tournament2018 (DeLand Regional)
Big West45–9 Regular season2016 (College World Series)
Colonial32–29 Tournament2018 (Greenville Regional)
Conference USA38–19 Tournament2018 (Fayetteville Regional)
Horizon29–21 Tournament2017 (Hattiesburg Regional)
Ivy League27–14 Championship series2005 (Fullerton Regional)
MAAC29–27 Tournament2005 (Austin Regional)
Mid-American46–12 Tournament1995 (South Regional)
Mid-Eastern27–32 Tournament2015 (Gainesville Regional)
Indiana StateMissouri Valley41–16 Tournament2014 (Bloomington Regional)
Mountain West38–14–1 Tournament2012 (Palo Alto Regional)
Northeast30–21 Tournament2017 (Fort Worth Regional)
Ohio Valley37–21 Tournament2014 (Oxford Regional)
[2019 2019 UCLA Bruins baseball team|UCLA Bruins baseball team|UCLA]Pac-1247–8 Regular season2018 (Minneapolis Regional)
Patriot35–24 Tournament2018 (Raleigh Regional)
[2019 2019 Vanderbilt Commodores baseball team|Vanderbilt Commodores baseball team|Vanderbilt]Southeastern49–10 Tournament2018 (Nashville Super Regional)
SoCon35–27 [2019 2019 Southern Jaguars baseball team|Southern Conference Baseball Tournament|Tournament]2015 (Tallahassee Regional)
McNeese StateSouthland35–24 Tournament2003 (Houston Regional)
SouthernSouthwestern Athletic32–22 Tournament2009 (Baton Rouge Regional)
Summit30–22–1 TournamentFirst Appearance
Coastal CarolinaSun Belt35–24–1 Tournament2018 (Conway Regional)
West Coast32–23 Tournament2000 (Fullerton Regional)
Western Athletic39–23 Tournament2017 (Palo Alto Regional)

National seeds

The sixteen national seeds, which hosted the regionals, were announced on the Selection Show on May 27 at 12 p.m. EDT on ESPNU. Teams in italics advanced to the Super Regionals. Teams in bold advanced to the College World Series.
1. UCLA
2. Vanderbilt
3.
4. [2019 2019 Georgia Bulldogs baseball team|Georgia Bulldogs baseball team|Georgia]
5. [2019 2019 Arkansas Razorbacks baseball team|Arkansas Razorbacks baseball team|Arkansas]
6. [2019 2019 Mississippi State Bulldogs baseball team|Mississippi State Bulldogs baseball team|Mississippi State]
7. [2019 2019 Louisville Cardinals baseball team|Louisville Cardinals baseball team|Louisville]
8. [2019 2019 Texas Tech Red Raiders baseball team|Texas Tech Red Raiders baseball team|Texas Tech]
9. '
10. '
11. [2019 2019 Stanford Cardinal baseball team|Stanford Cardinal baseball team|Stanford]
12. [2019 2019 Ole Miss Rebels baseball team|Ole Miss Rebels baseball team|Ole Miss]
13. [2019 2019 LSU Tigers baseball team|LSU Tigers baseball team|LSU]
14. North Carolina
15. [2019 2019 West Virginia Mountaineers baseball team|West Virginia Mountaineers baseball team|West Virginia]
16. [2019 2019 Oregon State Beavers baseball team|Oregon State Beavers baseball team|Oregon State]

Regionals and Super Regionals

''Bold indicates winner. Seeds for regional tournaments indicate seeds within regional. Seeds for super regional tournaments indicate national seeds only.''

Lubbock Super Regional

†Due to flooding in the Stillwater area, including their home field Allie P. Reynolds Stadium, Oklahoma State hosted their regional at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark in Oklahoma City.

College World Series

The College World Series was held at TD Ameritrade Park Omaha in Omaha, Nebraska.

Bracket


Seeds listed below indicate national seeds only

All-Tournament Team

The following players were members of the College World Series All-Tournament Team.
PositionPlayerSchool
PKumar Rocker Vanderbilt
PTommy HenryMichigan
CPhilip ClarkeVanderbilt
1BJimmy KerrMichigan
2BAko ThomasMichigan
3BAustin MartinVanderbilt
SSJack BlomgrenMichigan
OFJ. J. BledayVanderbilt
OFDrew CampbellLouisville
OFJesse FranklinMichigan
DHCameron WarrenTexas Tech

Final standings

Seeds listed below indicate national seeds only
PlaceSchoolRecord
1st 2 Vanderbilt10–2
2ndMichigan9–4
3rd 7 Louisville8–3
3rd 8 Texas Tech7–3
5thFlorida State6–2
5th 6 Mississippi State6–2
7th 5 Arkansas5–3
7thAuburn5–3
9thDuke4–2
9th 10 East Carolina4–3
9th 13 LSU3–2
9th 14 North Carolina4–2
9th 9 Oklahoma State4–3
9th 12 Ole Miss4–2
9th 11 Stanford4–3
9th 1 UCLA5–3
17thCampbell2–2
17thCreighton3–2
17thDallas Baptist2–2
17thFresno State2–2
17th 4 Georgia2–2
17th 3 Georgia Tech2–2
17thIllinois State2–2
17thIndiana State2–2
17thJacksonville State2–2
17thLoyola Marymount2–2
17thMiami2–2
17thSouthern Miss2–2
17thTCU2–2
17thTennessee2–2
17thTexas A&M2–2
17thUConn3–2
33rdArizona State1–2
33rdBaylor1–2
33rdCentral Connecticut State1–2
33rdCentral Michigan1–2
33rdCincinnati1–2
33rdClemson1–2
33rdCoastal Carolina1–2
33rdFlorida1–2
33rdFlorida Atlantic1–2
33rdIndiana1–2
33rdLiberty1–2
33rdNebraska1–2
33rdOhio State1–2
33rdQuinnipiac1–2
33rdSacramento State1–2
33rd 15 West Virginia1–2
49thArmy0–2
49thCalifornia0–2
49thFlorida A&M0–2
49thFordham0–2
49thHarvard0–2
49thIllinois0–2
49thMcNeese State0–2
49thMercer0–2
49thNC State0–2
49thOmaha0–2
49th 16 Oregon State0–2
49thSouthern0–2
49thStony Brook0–2
49thUC Santa Barbara0–2
49thUIC0–2
49thUNC Wilmington0–2

Record by conference

The columns RF, SR, WS, NS, CS, and NC respectively stand for the Regional Finals, Super Regionals, College World Series Teams, National Semifinals, Championship Series, and National Champion.
Nc is non–conference records, i.e., with the records of teams within the same conference having played each other removed.

Media coverage

Radio

NRG Media provided nationwide radio coverage of the College World Series through its Omaha Station KOZN, in association with Westwood One. It also streamed all CWS games at westwoodonesports.com on Tunein and on SiriusXM. Kevin Kugler and John Bishop called games leading up to the Championship Series with Gary Sharp acting as the field reporter. The Championship Series was called by Kugler and Scott Graham with Bishop acting as the field reporter.
Kugler lost his voice after the games on June 16, so Jeff Leise and Damon Benning joined Bishop and Sharp on Westwood One for the games on June 17, 18, and 19 before Kugler returned on the night of the 19.

Television

ESPN carried every game from the Regionals, Super Regionals, and the College World Series across its networks. During the Regionals and Super Regionals, ESPN offered a dedicated channel, ESPN Bases Loaded, which carried live look-ins and analyses across the games in progress.

Broadcast assignments

Regionals