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2012 NCAA I
baseball tournament
Season2012
Teams64
Finals site
ChampionsArizona (4th title)
Runner-upSouth Carolina (11th CWS Appearance)
Winning coachAndy Lopez (2nd title)
MOPRob Refsnyder (Arizona)
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The 2012 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament began on Friday, June 1, 2012 as part of the 2012 NCAA Division I baseball season. The 64 team double elimination tournament concluded with the 2012 College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska, starting on June 15 and ending on June 25.

The 64 NCAA Division I college baseball teams were selected out of an eligible 297 teams.[1] Thirty teams were awarded an automatic bid as champions of their conferences, and 34 teams were selected at-large by the NCAA Division I Baseball Committee.

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.[2]

School Conference Record (Conf) Berth Last NCAA Appearance
Stony Brook America East 46-11 (21-3) Won Tournament 2010
Georgia Tech ACC 36-24 (12-18) Won Tournament 2011
Belmont Atlantic Sun 39-22 (17-10) Won Tournament 2011
Dayton Atlantic 10 31-28 (17-7) Won Tournament First appearance
Missouri Big 12 32-26 (10-14) Won Tournament 2009
St. John's Big East 37-21 (18-9) Won Tournament 2011
Coastal Carolina Big South 41-17 (18-5) Won Tournament 2011
Purdue Big Ten 44-12 (17-7) Won Tournament 1987
Cal State Fullerton Big West 35-19 (17-7) Won Regular Season 2011
UNC Wilmington Colonial 38-21 (24-6) Won Tournament 2008
UAB Conference USA 32-28 (9-15) Won Tournament 1991
Valparaiso Horizon 35-23 (22-8) Won Tournament 1968
Cornell Ivy League 31-15 (14-6) Won Tournament 2010
Manhattan Metro Atlantic 33-25 (18-6) Won Tournament 2011
Kent State Mid-American 41-17 (24-3) Won Tournament 2011
Bethune-Cookman Mid-Eastern 34-25 (18-5) Won Tournament 2011
Creighton Missouri Valley 26-28 (6-14) Won Tournament 2011
New Mexico Mountain West 36-22 (18-6) Won Tournament 2011
Sacred Heart Northeast 25-30 (19-13) Won Tournament 2011
Austin Peay State Ohio Valley 38-22 (19-7) Won Tournament 2011
UCLA Pac-12 42-14 (20-10) Won Regular Season 2011
Army Patriot 41-13 (18-2) Won Tournament 2009
Mississippi State Southeastern 39-22 (16-14) Won Tournament 2011
Samford Southern 39-21 (19-11) Won Tournament First appearance
Texas–Arlington Southland 36-23 (19-14) Won Tournament 2006
Prairie View A&M Southwestern Athletic 33-16 (15-8) Won Tournament 2007
Oral Roberts Summit 37-23 (17-6) Won Tournament 2011
Louisiana–Monroe Sun Belt 31-28 (15-15) Won Tournament 2000
Pepperdine West Coast 34-21 (16-8) Won Regular Season 2008
Fresno State Western Athletic 30-26 (8-10) Won Tournament 2011

National seeds

These eight teams would automatically host a Super Regional had they advanced to that round. Only North Carolina failed to advance out of its regional.

Bold indicates CWS participant.

  1. Florida
  2. UCLA
  3. Florida State
  4. Baylor
  5. Oregon
  6. North Carolina
  7. LSU
  8. South Carolina

Regionals and Super Regionals

Bold indicates winner. * indicates extra innings.

Gainesville Super Regional

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Columbia Super Regional

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Los Angeles Super Regional

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Baton Rouge Super Regional

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Tucson Super Regional

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Tallahassee Super Regional

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Eugene Super Regional

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Waco Super Regional

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College World Series

Participants

School Conference Record (Conference) Head Coach Previous CWS Appearances CWS Best Finish CWS W-L Record
Arizona Pac-12 43-17 (20-10) Andy Lopez 15
(last: 2004)		 1st
(1976, 1980, 1986)		 33–27
Arkansas SEC 44–20 (16–14) Dave van Horn 6
(last: 2009)		 2nd
(1979)		 9–12
Florida SEC 47−18 (18−12) Kevin O'Sullivan 7
(last: 2011)		 2nd
(2005, 2011)		 11–15
Florida State ACC 48–15 (24–6) Mike Martin 20
(last: 2010)		 2nd
(1970, 1986, 1999)		 26–40
Kent State MAC 46–18 (24–3) Scott Stricklin 0
(last: none)		 none 0–0
South Carolina SEC 45–17 (18–11) Ray Tanner 10
(last: 2011)		 1st
(2010, 2011)		 28–17
Stony Brook America East 52–13 (21–3) Matt Senk 0
(last: none)		 none 0–0
UCLA Pac-12 47–14 (20–10) John Savage 3
(last: 2010)		 2nd
(2010)		 3–7

Bracket

Seeds listed below indicate national seeds only. Template:CWSBracket

Championship Series

Game 1

Sunday, June 24 7:00 pm
Omaha, Nebraska ESPN
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
South Carolina 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 6 2
Arizona 2 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 X 5 12 1
Starting pitchers:
USC: Forrest Koumas
UA: Konner Wade
WP: Konner Wade   LP: Forrest Koumas
Home runs:
USC: None
UA: Rob Refsnyder
Boxscore

Game 2

Monday, June 25 7:00 pm
Omaha, Nebraska ESPN
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Arizona 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 4 7 1
South Carolina 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 3 1
Starting pitchers:
UA: James Farris
USC: Michael Roth
WP: Matthew Troupe   LP: Matthew Price
Home runs:
UA: None
USC: None
Boxscore

All-Tournament Team

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

Position Player School
P Michael Roth South Carolina
Konner Wade Arizona
1B Christian Walker South Carolina
2B Devon Travis Florida State
3B Sherman Johnson Florida State
SS Alex Mejia Arizona
C Riley Moore Arizona
OF Evan Marzilli South Carolina
Joey Rickard Arizona
Rob Refsnyder Arizona
DH Bobby Brown Arizona
MOP Rob Refsnyder Arizona

Final standings

Place School Record
1st Arizona 10-0
2nd #8 South Carolina 8-3
3rd Arkansas 7-3
#3 Florida State 6-2
5th Kent State 6-3
#2 UCLA 6-2
7th #1 Florida 5-2
Stony Brook 6-4
9th #4 Baylor 5-3
#7 LSU 4-2
NC State 4-3
Oklahoma 4-3
#5 Oregon 4-2
Stanford 3-2
St. John's 3-2
Texas Christian 4-3
17th Appalachian State 2-2
Austin Peay 2-2
Central Florida 2-2
Clemson 2-2
Creighton 2-2
Dallas Baptist 2-2
Georgia Tech 2-2
Kentucky 2-2
Louisville 2-2
Mississippi 2-2
#6 North Carolina 2-2
Oregon State 2-2
Pepperdine 2-2
Samford 2-2
Sam Houston State 2-2
Vanderbilt 2-2
33rd Cal State Fullerton 1-2
Coastal Carolina 1-2
College of Charleston 1-2
East Carolina 1-2
Fresno State 1-2
Louisiana Monroe 1-2
Mississippi State 1-2
Missouri 1-2
Missouri State 1-2
New Mexico 1-2
Oral Roberts 1-2
Purdue 1-2
Rice 1-2
Texas A&M 1-2
UNC Wilmington 1-2
Virginia 1-2
49th Army 0-2
Belmont 0-2
Bethune-Cookman 0-2
Cornell 0-2
Dayton 0-2
Indiana State 0-2
Manhattan 0-2
Miami 0-2
Michigan State 0-2
New Mexico State 0-2
Prairie View 0-2
Sacred Heart 0-2
San Diego 0-2
UAB 0-2
UT-Arlington 0-2
Valparaiso 0-2
  • # denotes national seed

Tournament notes

Round 1

  • Florida's Jonathon Crawford threw a no-hitter against Bethune-Cookman, the seventh no-hitter in NCAA tournament history and the first since 1991.[3]
  • Kent State defeated Kentucky in 21 innings, the second longest game in NCAA tournament history.[4]
  • Baylor lost to Oral Roberts, the first national seed to lose their round one game since Florida State and Georgia both did so in 2008. Both Georgia and Florida State went on to make the College World Series, with Georgia losing in the championship series.[5]

Round 2

  • Miami (FL) became the first #1 seed to go 0-2 in Regional play since San Diego in 2007.[6]

Regional Finals

  • Arizona became the first team ever to score at least 15 runs in every Regional game. They were the first team since Arkansas in 2009 to score 10 or more runs in every Regional game.[5]
  • Stony Brook became the third #4 seed ever to win a Regional, joining Missouri in 2006 and Fresno State in 2008.[5]

Super Regionals

  • Kent State, Oregon, St. John's, and Stony Brook all appeared in the Super Regionals for the first time.[7][8][9][10]
  • LSU lost a Super Regional in Baton Rouge for the first time (had won previous five).[5]
  • Florida State scored 35 runs in two games against Stanford, tied with LSU (2008) for the most runs in a Super Regional and the most in a 2-game Super Regional (previous record was 26).[5]

College World Series

  • Stony Brook was the first College World Series participant from the America East Conference and is the first from New York since St. John's in 1980.[11]
  • Kent State was the first MAC team to make the world series since 1976.[5]
  • No school from Texas made the College World Series for the first time since 2001.[5]
  • This is the 20th consecutive year that the SEC has fielded at least one team in the College World Series.[12]
    • This is the 5th consecutive year that the SEC has fielded at least one team in the Championship Series.
  • South Carolina becomes the first team since the '96, '97, '98 LSU Tigers to return to Omaha with a chance to defend their back-to-back Championships. Southern California is the only program in CWS history to win three consecutive CWS titles, or more, (1970-1974),(5).
  • South Carolina entered the tournament riding two significant postseason winning streaks.
    • Longest College World Series winning streak (11 CWS games) in NCAA history.[13]
    • Longest post-season winning streak (21 games) in NCAA history. (This streak includes, Regional, Super Regional and College World Series games, and also consists of six one run wins and four games that required extra innings.)[14]
  • Florida is making a third consecutive appearance in the College World Series for the first time in team history. Fellow 2012 CWS participants Florida State ('94,'95,'96 & '98,99,'00), Arizona ('58,'59,'60) and South Carolina ('02,'03,'04 & '10,'11,'12) have all made three consecutive appearances.
  • The Game 4 match-up between No. 1 seed Florida and No. 8 seed South Carolina marks the first opening-round rematch of the previous season's Championship Game since the 1960 series when Arizona faced, and defeated, the 1959 Champions from Oklahoma State.[14]
  • This is the first appearance by Kent State or Stony Brook in the College World Series.[15][16]
  • Stony Brook is the second team since 1999 to be seeded fourth in a regional and advance to the College World Series (Fresno State won 2008 CWS).[15]
  • Arizona pitcher Konnor Wade became the first pitcher to throw a complete game shutout without a walk in a College World Series game since 1972.
  • For the first time since the tournament expanded to 64 teams in 1999, neither team that started 2-0 in the CWS was a national seed. (Arizona and Arkansas)[17]
  • As a result of the 20 June 2012 Game 10 rain delay, South Carolina will become the first team, since Georgia did so in 1987, to play all or part of two games on the same calendar day at the CWS when they face Arkansas in the night game (Game 12) on the 21st. The last team to play two full games, in the College World Series, on the same day was Michigan on 2 June 1980.[18]
  • With the 2-0 win over Arkansas in Game 12, South Carolina becomes the first team since 1952 (Holy Cross)(60 years) to win two games in the College World Series on the same day.

CWS records tied or broken

  • With the Game Four win over No. 1 seed Florida, the No. 8 seed South Carolina Gamecocks extend their NCAA record-setting postseason win streak to 22 consecutive games and their College World Series record-setting consecutive win streak to 12.[19][20] (Both streaks came to an end in Game Eight.)
  • With the 4-1 win over Kent State in Game 10, South Carolina's Michael Roth becomes the College World Series' all-time leader in Most Innings Pitched, with 53 2/3rd over three years. Roth also tied the record for Most CWS Starts with his 7th, and he tied the record for most CWS Wins all-time with a 4-0 CWS record. Additionally, Roth ties the record with Most Years With Wins (3).[21][22]
  • Arizona becomes the first CWS team to hit two home runs in an inning at TD Ameritrade Park after Rob Refsnyder and Bobby Brown hit home runs in the fourth inning of Game 11 against Florida State. In the same game, Florida State uses eight different pitchers, tying a CWS record.[23]
  • With the 3-2 win over Arkansas in Game 13, South Carolina's Matt Price sets a new College World Series Most Wins record with 5.[24][25]
  • Arizona becomes only the second team after South Carolina the previous year to go a perfect 10-0 in the postseason.

Media coverage

Radio

NRG Media, in conjunction with the Dial Global Sports/NCAA Radio Network provided nationwide radio coverage of the College World Series. Kevin Kugler and John Bishop called all games leading up to the Championship Series. It would be the first time John Bishop would call College World Series games for Dial Global Sports. The championship series would be called by Kugler and Scott Graham.[26]

Selection shows

The NCAA Division I Road to Omaha Selection Show aired on ESPN on May 28, 2012.

Competition

  • Regionals:
The Columbia and Tucson Regionals were broadcast on ESPNU and ESPN3.
The College Station, Gainesville, Palo Alto and Tallahassee Regionals were broadcast on ESPN3.
The Baton Rouge Regional was broadcast on Comcast SportsNet Northwest, Cox Sports Television, CSS.
Purdue's games at the Gary Regional were broadcast on Big Ten Network. Games in that regional not involving Purdue were not televised at all.
All games during the Super Regionals and the College World Series aired on the ESPN Networks (ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, and ESPN3).

Broadcast Assignments

References

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