1969 NCAA University Division baseball season

1969 NCAA University Division baseball season
Number of teams	207
NCAA Tournament
College World Series
Champions	Arizona State
Runners-up	Tulsa
MOP	John Dolinsek (Arizona State)
Seasons

The 1969 NCAA University Division baseball season, play of college baseball in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) began in the spring of 1969. The season progressed through the regular season and concluded with the 1969 College World Series. The College World Series, held for the twenty third time in 1969, consisted of one team from each of eight geographical districts and was held in Omaha, Nebraska at Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium as a double-elimination tournament. Arizona State claimed the championship.^[1]

Conference winners

This is a partial list of conference champions from the 1969 season. Each of the eight geographical districts chose, by various methods, the team that would represent them in the NCAA Tournament. 9 teams earned automatic bids by winning their conference championship while 12 teams earned at-large selections.^[1]^[2]

Conference	Regular Season Winner
Atlantic Coast Conference	North Carolina
Big Eight Conference	Oklahoma State
Big Ten Conference	Minnesota
EIBL	Dartmouth
Mid-American Conference	Ohio
Pacific-8 Conference	UCLA
Southeastern Conference	Ole Miss
Southern Conference	North - William & Mary South - Furman
Southwest Conference	Texas

Conference standings

The following is an incomplete list of conference standings:

1969 Western Athletic Conference baseball standings
	Conf				Overall
Team	W		L	PCT	W		L	PCT
Northern
#18 BYU	13	–	5	.722	30	–	15	.667
Wyoming	11	–	7	.611	14	–	22	.389
Utah	7	–	11	.389	20	–	22	.476
Colorado State	5	–	13	.278	13	–	20	.394
Southern
#1 Arizona State ^y	15	–	3	.833	56	–	11	.836
#19 Arizona	10	–	8	.556	37	–	10	.787
New Mexico	7	–	11	.389	31	–	17	.646
UTEP	4	–	14	.222	17	–	27	.386

† – Conference champion y – Invited to the NCAA Tournament As of June 30, 1969^[3]; Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

College World Series

The 1969 season marked the twenty third NCAA Baseball Tournament, which culminated with the eight team College World Series. The College World Series was held in Omaha, Nebraska. The eight teams played a double-elimination format, with Arizona State claiming their third championship with a 10–1 win over Tulsa in the final.^[1]

First Round			Second Round			Third Round

Winner's Bracket
	Arizona State	0
	Texas	4
				Texas	2
				Tulsa	4
	UCLA	5
	Tulsa	6¹⁰
							Tulsa	2
							NYU	0
	Southern Illinois	0
	Massachusetts	2
				Massachusetts	2
				NYU	9
	Ole Miss	3
	NYU	8
			Loser's Bracket
				Arizona State	2¹¹
				UCLA	1		Arizona State	4
							Massachusetts	2
				Southern Illinois	1
				Ole Miss	8		Ole Miss	1
							Texas	14

Semifinals			Finals			if needed

Re-ordered Semi-finals
	Tulsa	3					Tulsa	1
	Arizona State	11					Arizona State	10
				Arizona State	4
				NYU	1
	NYU	3
	Texas	2

Award winners

All-America team

References

1 2 3 W.C. Madden & Patrick J. Stewart (2004). The College World Series:A Baseball History, 1947-2003. McFarland & Co. pp. 41–43. Retrieved August 15, 2014.
↑ "NCAA Men's College World Series Records" (PDF). NCAA. 2009. p. 7. Retrieved August 15, 2014.
↑ "College Baseball Conference Standings -- 1969". boydsworld.com. Retrieved August 15, 2014.

NCAA college baseball seasons
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