American college baseball championship
Collegiate baseball tournament
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.
The 2009 tournament culminated with 8 teams advancing to the
College World Series
at historic
Rosenblatt Stadium
in
Omaha, Nebraska
, beginning on June 13.
Bids
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Automatic bids
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Conference champions from 30
Division I
conferences earned automatic bids to regionals. The remaining 34 spots were awarded to schools as at-large invitees.
Bids by conference
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Conference
|
Total
|
Schools
|
Big 12
|
8
|
Baylor
,
Kansas
,
Kansas State
,
Missouri
,
Oklahoma
,
Oklahoma State
,
Texas
,
Texas A&M
|
Southeastern
|
8
|
Alabama
,
Arkansas
,
Florida
,
Georgia
,
LSU
,
Ole Miss
,
South Carolina
,
Vanderbilt
|
Atlantic Coast
|
7
|
Boston College
,
Clemson
,
Florida State
,
Georgia Tech
,
Miami (FL)
,
North Carolina
,
Virginia
|
Big Ten
|
3
|
Indiana
,
Minnesota
,
Ohio State
|
Big West
|
3
|
Cal Poly
,
UC Irvine
,
Cal State Fullerton
|
Conference USA
|
3
|
East Carolina
,
Rice
,
Southern Miss
|
Mountain West
|
3
|
San Diego State
,
TCU
,
Utah
|
Pacific 10
|
3
|
Arizona State
,
Oregon State
,
Washington State
|
Colonial
|
2
|
George Mason
,
Georgia State
|
Southern
|
2
|
Elon
,
Georgia Southern
|
Southland
|
2
|
Sam Houston State
,
Texas State
|
Sun Belt
|
2
|
Middle Tennessee
,
Western Kentucky
|
Atlantic Sun
|
1
|
Jacksonville
|
Atlantic 10
|
1
|
Xavier
|
America East
|
1
|
Binghamton
|
Big East
|
1
|
Louisville
|
Big South
|
1
|
Coastal Carolina
|
Horizon
|
1
|
Wright State
|
Ivy
|
1
|
Dartmouth
|
Metro Atlantic
|
1
|
Marist
|
Mid-American
|
1
|
Kent State
|
Mid-Eastern
|
1
|
Bethune?Cookman
|
Missouri Valley
|
1
|
Wichita State
|
Northeast
|
1
|
Monmouth
|
Ohio Valley
|
1
|
Tennessee Tech
|
Patriot
|
1
|
Army
|
Southwestern
|
1
|
Southern
|
Summit
|
1
|
Oral Roberts
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Western Athletic
|
1
|
Fresno State
|
WCC
|
1
|
Gonzaga
|
National seeds
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Bold
indicates CWS participant.
- Texas
(41-13-1)
- Cal State Fullerton
(42?14)
- LSU
(46?16)
- North Carolina
(42?16)
- Arizona State
(44?12)
- UC Irvine
(43?13)
- Oklahoma
(41?18)
- Florida
(42-22)
Regionals and super regionals
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Regional schedule
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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.
Day
|
Game
|
Teams
|
Fri. 5/29/09
|
1
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2/3 or 1/4 (host choice)
|
2
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2/3 or 1/4 (host choice)
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Sat. 5/30/09
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3
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Loser Games 1 & 2
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4
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Winner Games 1 & 2
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Sun. 5/31/09
|
5
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Winner Game 3 vs Loser Game 4
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6
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Winner Games 4 & 5
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Mon. 6/1/09
|
7
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if needed, only if winner of game 5 wins game 6
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Super Regional Schedule
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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
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Bold
indicates winner. * indicates extra innings.
Austin Super Regional
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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
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Hosted by
Florida
at
Alfred A. McKethan Stadium
Tempe Super Regional
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Hosted by
Arizona State
at
Packard Stadium
Chapel Hill Super Regional
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Hosted by
North Carolina
at
Boshamer Stadium
Fullerton Super Regional
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Hosted by
Cal State Fullerton
at
Goodwin Field
Tallahassee Super Regional
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Hosted by
Florida State
at
Dick Howser Stadium
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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
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Hosted by
Ole Miss
at
Swayze Field
Baton Rouge Super Regional
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Hosted by
LSU
at
Alex Box Stadium
College World Series
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Participants
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School
|
Conference
|
Record (conference)
|
Head coach
|
CWS appearances
|
Best CWS finish
|
CWS record
Not including this year
|
Arizona State
|
Pac-10
|
49?12 (21?6)
|
Pat Murphy
|
20
(last:
2007
)
|
1st
(
1965
,
1967
,
1969
,
1977
,
1981
)
|
59?34
|
Arkansas
|
SEC
|
39?22 (14?15)
|
Dave van Horn
|
5
(last:
2004
)
|
2nd
(
1979
)
|
7?10
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Cal State Fullerton
|
Big West
|
47?14 (17?7)
|
Dave Serrano
|
15
(last:
2007
)
|
1st
(
1979
,
1984
,
1995
,
2004
)
|
34?25
|
LSU
|
SEC
|
51?16 (20?10)
|
Paul Mainieri
|
14
(last:
2008
)
|
1st
(
1991
,
1993
,
1996
,
1997
,
2000
)
|
30?19
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North Carolina
|
ACC
|
47?16 (19?10)
|
Mike Fox
|
7
(last:
2008
)
|
2nd
(
2006
,
2007
)
|
13?15
|
Southern Miss
|
C-USA
|
40?24 (12?12)
|
Corky Palmer
|
0
(last: none)
|
none
|
0?0
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Texas
|
Big 12
|
46?14?1 (17?9?1)
|
Augie Garrido
|
32
(last:
2005
)
|
1st
(
1949
,
1950
,
1975
,
1983
,
2002
,
2005
)
|
78?53
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Virginia
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ACC
|
48?13?1 (16?11?1)
|
Brian O'Connor
|
0
(last: none)
|
none
|
0?0
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Bracket
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Championship series
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Game 1
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Monday, June 22 6:00 pm
Omaha, Nebraska ESPN
Team
|
1
|
2
|
3
|
4
|
5
|
6
|
7
|
8
|
9
|
10
|
11
|
R
|
H
|
E
|
LSU
|
1
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
2
|
1
|
0
|
2
|
0
|
1
|
7
|
11
|
0
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Texas
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
3
|
0
|
2
|
1
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
6
|
9
|
1
|
WP
:
Matty Ott
LP
:
Brandon Workman
Attendance:
23,019
Notes:
First time since 2003 that a MCWS Final Series game went into extra innings.
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Game 2
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Tuesday, June 23 6:00 pm
Omaha, Nebraska ESPN
Team
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1
|
2
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3
|
4
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5
|
6
|
7
|
8
|
9
|
R
|
H
|
E
|
Texas
|
1
|
1
|
3
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
5
|
12
|
3
|
LSU
|
0
|
1
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
1
|
5
|
2
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WP
:
Taylor Jungmann
LP
:
Austin Ross
Attendance:
21,871
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Game 3
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Wednesday, June 24 6:00 pm
Omaha, Nebraska ESPN
Team
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1
|
2
|
3
|
4
|
5
|
6
|
7
|
8
|
9
|
R
|
H
|
E
|
LSU
|
3
|
1
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
5
|
0
|
1
|
1
|
11
|
12
|
0
|
Texas
|
0
|
0
|
2
|
0
|
2
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
4
|
9
|
1
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WP
:
Anthony Ranaudo
LP
:
Brandon Workman
Attendance:
19,986
Notes:
LSU wins its 6th College World Series. LSU coach Paul Mainieri wins the first national championship of his career.
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All-Tournament Team
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The following players were members of the College World Series All-Tournament Team.
Record by conference
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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
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Round 1
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- All 16 No. 1 seeds won their first-round games for the second time since the tournament expanded to 64 teams in 1999; thus no No. 4 was able to win their first-round game.
- Seven No. 3 seeds won their first-round games in upsets.
Round 2
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- Fresno State, the champions of the 2008 NCAA College World Series, was eliminated in the Irvine Regional after losing to UC Irvine and San Diego State.
- Texas defeated Boston College 3?2 in 25 innings, which broke the record of the longest game in NCAA baseball history lasting more than seven hours.
- Two National-seeds lost in round two: #6 UC Irvine and #7 Oklahoma.
- Four No. 2 seeds advanced to the Regional finals with a 2?0 record.
- Three No. 2 seeds (Alabama, Georgia Southern and Texas State) were eliminated from the tournament after going 0?2.
- Two No. 3 seeds (Southern Miss and Oklahoma State) advanced to the Regional finals with a 2?0 record.
- Five No. 4 seeds registered a win in their opening game in the losers bracket.
Regional finals
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- Florida State sets NCAA postseason records with 37 runs, 38 hits and 66 total bases in a blowout win over Ohio State, 37?6.
- Two No. 4 seeds advanced to the Regional finals: Army and Utah.
- Two National-seeds failed to advance to the Super regionals: #6 UC Irvine and #7 Oklahoma.
- The only non-No. 1 seeds to advance to the Super regionals were Arkansas, Southern Miss, and Virginia.
- No team which lost its opening round game was able to come back and win its Regional. Vanderbilt, the No. 3 seed in the Louisville Regional, was the only team to lose its opener and come back to force a decisive second game in the regional final. The Commodores lost to No. 2 seed Middle Tennessee in the opening round before winning three consecutive elimination games against No. 4 seed Indiana, a rematch with MT and host Louisville before falling to the Cardinals the next night.
Super regionals
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- No. 2 seed Arkansas, No. 2 seed Virginia, and No. 3 seed Southern Miss became the ninth, tenth, and eleventh teams respectively in NCAA history to advance to the College World Series without playing a game at their home park.
- Arkansas became the third team since the tournament expanded in 1999 to reach the CWS by going undefeated (5?0) on the road in both Regionals and Super regionals, joining Southern California in
2000
and UC Irvine in
2007
.
- No. 2 seed Virginia advanced to the first College World Series in school history by winning the Oxford Super Regional 2?1.
- No. 3 seed Southern Miss advanced to the first College World Series in school history by winning the Gainesville Super Regional 2?0.
- Three of the 8 national seeds failed to make it to the CWS.
College World Series
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- 2009
was the 17th consecutive year the
SEC
fielded a team in the
CWS
.
- Both Virginia and Southern Miss played in their first College World Series in school history.
- Only two teams from the
2008 CWS
, LSU and North Carolina, returned for 2009.
- 2009 marked the first time in six seasons that a top-eight national seed won the title.
- LSU played for the championship for the first time since 2000, and it was the first time LSU has appeared in the best of 3 championship series.
CWS records broken
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- All-time hits by a player: 28 by Dustin Ackley of
UNC
, broken against
Southern Miss
in game 7
[1]
- Pitchers used in a single game by one team (tied): 8 by
Arkansas
in game 11
[2]
- Pitchers used in a single game by both teams (tied): 13 by
LSU
and
Arkansas
in game 11
[2]
- Career games played: 21 by Garrett Gore of North Carolina, broken against
Arizona St.
in game 10
- Most wild pitches in a single-game: 4 by
Matt Harvey
of North Carolina, broken against Arizona St. in game 10
- Home runs in a College World Series: 4 by Russell Moldenhauer of Texas, tied the record against LSU in game 2 of the finals.
- Attendance Record: 336,076, previous record set in 2008 of 330,099
- Combined home runs in the Championship Finals: 12, previous record of 9 set in 2008.
Television/radio/online coverage
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Regionals
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Super regionals
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- All super-regional games were shown on
ESPN
,
ESPN2
or
ESPNU
on television and
ESPN360
through online streaming video.
College World Series
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- All College World Series games were shown on
ESPN
,
ESPN2
or
ESPNU
on television and
ESPN360
through online streaming video.
References
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External links
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