2017 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament


The 2017 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament began on June 1, 2017 as part of the 2017 NCAA Division I baseball season. The 64-team, double-elimination tournament concluded with the 2017 College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska. The CWS started on June 17 and ended on June 27.
The 64 participating NCAA Division I college baseball teams were selected out of an eligible 299 teams. Thirty-one teams were awarded an automatic bid as champions of their conferences, and 33 teams were selected at-large by the NCAA Division I Baseball Committee.
Teams were divided into sixteen regionals of four teams, which conducted a double-elimination tournament. Regional champions then faced each other in Super Regionals, a best-of-three-game series, to determine the eight participants in the College World Series.

Bids

Automatic bids

By conference

National seeds

The following eight teams automatically host a Super Regional if they advance to that round:
  1. Oregon State
  2. North Carolina †
  3. Florida
  4. LSU
  5. Texas Tech †
  6. TCU
  7. Louisville
  8. †
Bold indicates College World Series participant

† indicates teams that were eliminated in the Regional Tournament

‡ indicates teams that were eliminated in the Super Regional Tournament

Regionals and Super Regionals

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

Corvallis Super Regional

Long Beach Super Regional

Tallahassee Super Regional

Baton Rouge Super Regional

Gainesville Super Regional

Fort Worth Super Regional

Louisville Super Regional

College Station Super Regional

Hosted by Texas A&M at Olsen Field at Blue Bell Park

College World Series

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

Participants

Bracket

Seeds listed below indicate national seeds only

Game results

All-Tournament Team

The following players were members of the College World Series All-Tournament Team.
PositionPlayerSchool
PAlex FaedoFlorida
PBrady SingerFlorida
1BDrew MendozaFlorida State
2BNick MadrigalOregon State
3BDylan BusbyFlorida State
SSTimmy RichardsCal State Fullerton
CMichael PapierskiLSU
OFAntoine DuplantisLSU
OFAustin LangworthyFlorida
OFZach WatsonLSU
DHBrendan McKayLouisville
MOPAlex FaedoFlorida

Final standings

Seeds listed below indicate national seeds only
PlaceSchoolRecord
1st 3 Florida10–3
2nd 4 LSU9–3
3rd 1 Oregon St7–2
3rd 6 TCU8–2
5thFlorida State7–3
5th 7 Louisville6–2
7thCal State Fullerton5–3
7thTexas A&M5–2
9thDavidson3–2
9thKentucky4–3
9thLong Beach St.5–3
9thMississippi State4–3
9thMissouri State3–3
9thSam Houston St.4–3
9thVanderbilt3–3
9thWake Forest4–2
17thArkansas3–2
17thAuburn2–2
17thBethune–Cookman2–2
17thClemson3–2
17thDallas Baptist2–2
17thHouston2–2
17thNC State2–2
17th 2 North Carolina2–2
17thRice2–2
17thSouthern Miss2–2
17th 8 Stanford2–2
17thTexas2–2
17th 5 Texas Tech2–2
17thWest Virginia2–2
17thXavier2–2
17thYale2–2
33rdArizona1–2
33rdBYU1–2
33rdFlorida Gulf Coast1–2
33rdHoly Cross1–2
33rdIndiana1–2
33rdIowa1–2
33rdMaryland1–2
33rdOklahoma1–2
33rdOral Roberts1–2
33rdSan Diego State1–2
33rdSouth Alabama1–2
33rdSouth Florida1–2
33rdSoutheastern Louisiana1–2
33rdTennessee Tech1–2
33rdUNC Greensboro1–2
33rdVirginia1–2
49thBaylor0–2
49thCentral Connecticut State0–2
49thDelaware0–2
49thMarist0–2
49thMichigan0–2
49thNebraska0–2
49thOhio0–2
49thOklahoma State0–2
49thRadford0–2
49thSacramento State0–2
49thSt. John's0–2
49thTexas Southern0–2
49thUCF0–2
49thUCLA0–2
49thUIC0–2
49thUMBC0–2

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

provided nationwide radio coverage of the College World Series through its Omaha station KOZN, in association with Westwood One. It was streamed at westwoodonesports.com, on TuneIn, and on SiriusXM. Kevin Kugler and John Bishop called all games leading up to the Championship Series with acting as the field reporter. The Championship Series was called by Kugler and Scott Graham with Bishop acting as field reporter.

Television

carried every game from the Regionals, Super Regionals, and 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 analysis across all games in progress.

Broadcast assignments

Regionals
Super Regionals
College World Series
Regionals
Super Regionals
College World Series Championship Series