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2006 NCAA Division I
baseball tournament
Season2006
Teams64
Finals site
ChampionsOregon State (1st title)
Runner-upNorth Carolina (5th CWS Appearance)
Winning coachPat Casey (1st title)
MOPJonah Nickerson (Oregon State)

The 2006 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament was held from June 2 through June 26, 2006. Sixty-four NCAA Division I college baseball teams met after having played their way through a regular season, and for some, a conference tournament, to play in the NCAA Tournament. The tournament culminated with 8 teams in the College World Series at historic Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha, Nebraska.

After winning the regional and super regional rounds of the 2006 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament, eight teams advanced to Omaha. Clemson, Georgia Tech, North Carolina, Cal State Fullerton, Oregon State, Rice, Georgia, and Miami (FL) all won their super-regionals and made the trip to the 2006 College World Series. Five national seeds advanced to Omaha: Clemson (1), Rice (2), Cal State Fullerton (5), Georgia (7), and Georgia Tech (8). Third-seeded Texas and sixth-seeded Nebraska both fell in the regionals, while the fourth seed Alabama lost in super regional play.

The first pitch of the 2006 CWS was Friday, June 16, at 1:00 PM CDT (18:00 UTC). The 2006 tournament was only the second time in CWS history in which 16 games were played (the other being the 2003 College World Series).

After losing their tournament opener to Miami (FL), the Oregon State Beavers staved off elimination for four straight games to win their bracket and advance to the championship series. The Rice Owls, who had not lost a three-game series all season, were shut out in consecutive games by the Beavers and failed to score in a CWS-record 23 innings. Oregon State advanced to face North Carolina in the final.

Opening ceremony of game 2 between Oregon State and North Carolina.

The best-of-three championship series featured Oregon State and North Carolina. Oregon State won the deciding game, 3-2, winning the school's first national title in baseball and its second NCAA championship overall. All games were televised on ESPN and ESPN2.

Oregon State set a CWS record by winning six elimination games (four in bracket play, two in the championship series) and also became the first team ever to lose twice in Omaha and still win the title. Oregon State is the only team besides Holy Cross in 1952 to win six games in the College World Series. Oregon State played in half (eight of 16) of the games in the tournament.

OSU pitcher Jonah Nickerson was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player.

Five-time national champion LSU was left out of the field of 64, the first time since 1988 The Tigers failed to qualify for a regional. LSU's overall record of 35-24 merited at-large consideration, but it was undone by poor performance in the Southeastern Conference, where the Tigers finished 8th out of 12 teams at 13-17. LSU won national championships in 1991, '93, '96, '97 and 2000 under Hall of Fame coach Skip Bertman, who was the school's athletic director at this time.

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.

Conference School Berth Type
America East Maine Tournament Champion
ACC Clemson Tournament Champion
Atlantic Sun Stetson Tournament Champion
A-10 Saint Louis Tournament Champion
Big 12 Kansas Tournament Champion
Big East Notre Dame Tournament Champion
Big South UNC Asheville Tournament Champion
Big Ten Michigan Tournament Champion
Big West Cal State Fullerton Regular Season Champion
CAA UNC Wilmington Tournament Champion
Conference USA Rice Tournament Champion
Horizon League Wright State Tournament Champion
Ivy League Princeton Championship Series Winner
MAAC Manhattan Tournament Champion
MAC Ball State Tournament Champion
Mid-Con Oral Roberts Tournament Champion
MEAC Bethune-Cookman Tournament Champion
Missouri Valley Evansville Tournament Champion
MWC TCU Tournament Champion
NEC Sacred Heart Tournament Champion
OVC Jacksonville State Tournament Champion
Pac-10 Oregon State Regular Season Champion
Patriot League Lehigh Tournament Champion
SEC Ole Miss Tournament Champion
SoCon College of Charleston Tournament Champion
Southland Texas–Arlington Tournament Champion
SWAC Prairie View A&M Tournament Champion
Sun Belt Troy Tournament Champion
WCC Pepperdine Championship Series Winner
WAC Fresno State Tournament Champion

Bids by conference

Conference Total Schools
Southeastern 8 Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, South Carolina, Vanderbilt
Atlantic Coast 7 Clemson, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Miami (FL), North Carolina, NC State, Virginia
Big 12 7 Baylor, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas
Conference USA 4 Houston, Rice, Southern Miss, Tulane
Pacific-10 4 Arizona State, Oregon State, Stanford, UCLA
WCC 3 Pepperdine, San Diego. San Francisco
Atlantic Sun 2 Jacksonville, Stetson
Big South 2 UNC Asheville, Winthrop
Big West 2 UC Irvine, Cal State Fullerton
Missouri Valley 2 Evansville, Wichita State
Southern 2 College of Charleston, Elon
Sun Belt 2 South Alabama, Troy
Western Athletic 2 Fresno State, Hawaii
America East 1 Maine
Atlantic 10 1 Saint Louis
Big East 1 Notre Dame
Big Ten 1 Michigan
Colonial 1 UNC Wilmington
Horizon 1 Wright State
Ivy 1 Princeton
Metro Atlantic 1 Manhattan
Mid-American 1 Ball State
Mid-Con 1 Oral Roberts
Mid-Eastern 1 Bethune Cookman
Mountain West 1 TCU
Northeast 1 Sacred Heart
Ohio Valley 1 Jacksonville State
Patriot 1 Lehigh
Southland 1 Texas–Arlington
Southwestern 1 Prairie View

National Seeds

Bold indicates CWS participant.

  1. Clemson
  2. Rice
  3. Texas
  4. Alabama
  5. Cal State Fullerton
  6. Nebraska
  7. Georgia
  8. Georgia Tech

Regionals & Super Regionals

Bold indicates winner.

Clemson Super Regional

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Houston Super Regional

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Corvallis Super Regional

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Tuscaloosa Super Regional

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Fullerton Super Regional

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Oxford Super Regional

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Athens Super Regional

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Atlanta Super Regional

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College World Series

Participants

School Conference Record (Conference) Head Coach CWS Appearances CWS Best Finish CWS Record
Clemson ACC 52–14 (24–6) Jack Leggett 10
(last: 2002)
3rd
(1996, 2002)
9–20
Cal State Fullerton Big West 48–13 (18–3) George Horton 13
(last: 2004)
1st
(1979, 1984, 1995, 2004)
32–21
Georgia SEC 47–21 (18–12) David Perno 4
(last: 2004)
1st
(1990)
6–7
Georgia Tech ACC 50–16 (19–11) Danny Hall 2
(last: 2002)
2nd
(1994)
4–3
Miami (FL) ACC 41–22 (17–13) Jim Morris 21
(last: 2004)
1st
(1982, 1985, 1999, 2001)
45–34
North Carolina ACC 50–13 (22–8) Mike Fox 4
(last: 1989)
3rd
(1978)
2–8
Oregon State Pac-10 44–14 (16–7) Pat Casey 2
(last: 2005)
7th
(1952, 2005)
0–4
Rice C-USA 55–11 (22–2) Wayne Graham 4
(last: 2003)
1st
(2003)
6–7

Bracket

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Championship Series

Saturday 6/24

Championship Game #1: 6:00 PM
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Oregon State 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 3 9 0
North Carolina 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 x 4 10 1
WP: Jonathon Hovis (8-2)   LP: Joe Paterson (1-1)   Sv: Andrew Carignan (15)
Home runs:
OSU: Gillespie
UNC: None

Note: 77 minute rain delay in top of 6th inning

Sunday 6/25

Championship Game #2: 6:00 PM
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
North Carolina 0 1 3 1 0 0 2 0 0 7 13 0
Oregon State 0 0 0 7 0 4 0 0 x 11 14 0
WP: Kevin Gunderson (3-2)   LP: Matt Danford (7-2)
Home runs:
UNC: Federowicz (2)
OSU: Rowe

Monday 6/26

Championship Game #3: 6:00 PM
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
North Carolina 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 8 4
Oregon State 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 x 3 6 1
WP: Dallas Buck (13-3)   LP: Daniel Bard (9-4)   Sv: Kevin Gunderson (20)

Tournament Performance by Conference

Conference Tournament Record Percentage Schools to Super Regionals Schools to CWS
Pacific-10 14-6 0.700 Oregon St, Stanford Oregon St
ACC 29-13 0.690 Clemson, Georgia Tech, Miami, North Carolina Clemson, Georgia Tech, Miami, North Carolina
Big West 7-4 0.636 Cal State Fullerton Cal State Fullerton
Mid-Con 3-2 0.600 Oral Roberts
SEC 21-16 0.568 Alabama, Georgia, Ole Miss, South Carolina Georgia
Missouri Valley 5-4 0.556
Conference USA 10-9 0.526 Rice Rice
Southern 4-4 0.500 College of Charleston
Western Athletic 4-4 0.500
Metro Atlantic 2-2 0.500
Big 12 15-16 0.484 Missouri, Oklahoma
Sun Belt 3-4 0.429
WCC 4-6 0.400
Big South 2-4 0.333
Big Ten 1-2 0.333
Colonial 1-2 0.333
Mid-American 1-2 0.333
Mountain West 1-2 0.333
Atlantic Sun 1-4 0.200
America East 0-2 0.000
Atlantic 10 0-2 0.000
Big East 0-2 0.000
Horizon 0-2 0.000
Ivy 0-2 0.000
Mid-Eastern 0-2 0.000
Northeast 0-2 0.000
Ohio Valley 0-2 0.000
Patriot 0-2 0.000
Southland 0-2 0.000
Southwestern Athletic 0-2 0.000

Notes on tournament field

  • Lehigh, UNC Asheville, San Francisco, Prairie View, and Sacred Heart were making their first NCAA tournament appearance.[1]

References

  1. ^ "NCAA Men's College World Series Records 1947-2008" (PDF). NCAA. Retrieved 2009-01-20.