2022 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament
The 2022 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament will be the 75th edition of the NCAA Division I Baseball Championship. The 64-team tournament will begin on Friday, June 3 as part of the 2022 NCAA Division I baseball season and conclude with the 2022 College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska, which will start on June 17 and end on June 27.[1]
Season | 2022 |
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Teams | 64 |
Finals site | |
Television | ESPN and ESPN2 |
The 64 participating NCAA Division I college baseball teams will be selected out of an eligible 300 teams. There will be 31 teams that are awarded an automatic bid as champions of their conferences, and 33 teams that will be selected at-large by the NCAA Division I Baseball Committee. Teams will be divided into sixteen regionals of four teams, each of which conducts a double-elimination tournament. Regional champions then will face each other in Super Regionals, a best-of-three game series, to determine the eight participants in the College World Series.[1]
Tournament procedure
A total of 64 teams will enter the tournament, with 31 of them receiving an automatic bid by either winning their conference's tournament or by finishing in first place in their conference. The remaining 33 bids were at-large", with selections extended by the NCAA Selection Committee. For the first time ever, the Pac-12 Conference will have a conference tournament to determine who will get the automatic bid.
National seeds
The sixteen national seeds were announced on the Selection Show on Monday, May 30, 2022 at 12 p.m. EDT on ESPN2.[2] Teams in italics advanced to the Super Regionals. Teams in bold advanced to the 2022 College World Series.
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Schedule and venues
On May 30, the NCAA Division I Baseball Committee will announce the sixteen regional host sites.[3]
Regionals
- June 3–6
- TBD
Super Regionals
- June 10–13
- TBD
- June 17–27
Bids
Automatic bids
School | Conference | Record (Conf) | Berth | Last NCAA Appearance |
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America East | Tournament | |||
American | Tournament | |||
ASUN | Tournament | |||
ACC | Tournament | |||
Atlantic 10 | Tournament | |||
Big 12 | Tournament | |||
Big East | Tournament | |||
Big South | Tournament | |||
Big Ten | Tournament | |||
Big West | Regular Season | |||
Colonial | Tournament | |||
Conference USA | Tournament | |||
Horizon | Tournament | |||
Ivy League | Championship Series | |||
Metro Atlantic | Tournament | |||
Mid-American | Tournament | |||
Mid-Eastern | Tournament | |||
Missouri Valley | Tournament | |||
Mountain West | Tournament | |||
Northeast | Tournament | |||
Ohio Valley | Tournament | |||
Pac-12 | Tournament | |||
Patriot | Tournament | |||
SEC | Tournament | |||
Southern | Tournament | |||
Southland | Tournament | |||
Southwestern Athletic | Tournament | |||
Summit | Tournament | |||
Sun Belt | Tournament | |||
West Coast | Tournament | |||
Western Athletic | Tournament |
By conference
See also
- 2022 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament
- 2022 NCAA Division II Baseball Tournament
- 2022 NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament
References
- "Baseball Division I Championship". NCAA. Retrieved January 12, 2021.
- "2021 college baseball tournament selection show: Time, how to watch". www.ncaa.com. May 27, 2021. Retrieved May 31, 2021.
- "2022 NCAA college baseball bracket: Printable Men's College World Series bracket". NCAA.com. Indianapolis. February 7, 2022. Retrieved January 25, 2022.