The 2005 NCAA Division I baseball tournament was held from May 30 through June 26, . 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.
A major format change for the regionals began in 2005. Rather than play both games of the championship round on the third day (usually Sunday) of the tournament, the "if necessary" championship game would be played on the fourth day of the tournament (usually Monday), allowing a team in the loser's bracket to rest some of its pitchers for a winner-take-all contest.
The home-state Nebraska Cornhuskers won their first College World Series game after going winless in their previous two appearances.
Texas went undefeated in the College World Series, earning its spot in the championship series with a walk-off home run against Big 12 Conference rival Baylor, before sweeping Florida in the championship series.
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. ConferenceSchoolBerth type America East Tournament champion ACC Tournament champion Atlantic Sun Tournament champion A-10 Rhode Island Tournament champion Big 12 Nebraska Tournament champion Big East Tournament champion Big South Tournament champion Big Ten Tournament champion Big West Regular-season champion CAA VCU Tournament champion Conference USA Tournament champion Horizon League Tournament champion Ivy League Championship series winner MAAC Tournament champion MAC Tournament champion Mid-Con Tournament champion MEAC Tournament champion Missouri Valley Tournament champion MWC Tournament champion NEC Tournament champion OVC Tournament champion Pac-10 Oregon State Regular-season champion Patriot League Tournament champion SEC Mississippi State Tournament champion SoCon Tournament champion Southland Tournament champion SWAC Tournament champion Sun Belt Tournament champion WAC Regular-season champion WCC Championship series winner
Bids by conference Conference Total Schools Southeastern 9 , , , Florida, , Mississippi State, , , Atlantic Coast 7 Clemson, , , , , , Big 12 5 Baylor, Missouri, Nebraska, , Texas Pacific-10 5 Arizona, Arizona State, Oregon State, , Conference USA 4 , , , Atlantic Sun 2 , Big East 2 , Big South 2 , Big Ten 2 , Big West 2 , Missouri Valley 2 , Southern 2 , Southland 2 , Sun Belt 2 , America East 1 Atlantic 10 1 Rhode Island Colonial Athletic 1 VCU Horizon 1 Ivy 1 Metro Atlantic 1 Mid-American 1 Mid-Continent 1 Mid-Eastern 1 Mountain West 1 Northeast 1 Ohio Valley 1 Patriot 1 Southwestern Athletic 1 Western Athletic 1 West Coast 1
Tournament notes North Carolina A&T, Quinnipiac and Rhode Island were making their first NCAA tournament appearance.
CWS records tied or broken Total attendance: 263,475 (previous record was 260,091 in 2003) Average single session attendance: 23,952 No game was decided by more than five runs, making the 2005 CWS the closest-contended in history For the first time in CWS history, not a single player hit a triple Texas closer J. B. Cox tied the CWS record with five pitching appearances
National seeds Bold indicates CWS participant.
Nebraska Baylor
Florida Oregon State
Regionals and super regionals
Bold indicates winner.
New Orleans Super Regional
Atlanta Super Regional
Lincoln Super Regional
Waco Super Regional
Oxford Super Regional
Fullerton Super Regional
Gainesville Super Regional
Corvallis Super Regional
College World Series
Participants School Conference Record (conference) Head coach CWS appearances Best CWS finish CWS recordNot including this year C-USA 55–10 (24–6) Rick Jones 2(last: 2001) 5th(2001) 1–2 SEC 43–19 (18–11) Rod Delmonico 3(last: 2001) 2nd(1951) 8–6 Nebraska Big 12 56–13 (19–8) Mike Anderson 2(last: 2002) 7th(2001, 2002) 0–4 Baylor Big 12 44–22 (19–8) Steve Smith 2(last: 1978) 7th(1977, 1978) 0–4 Texas Big 12 51–16 (16–10) Augie Garrido 31(last: 2004) 1st(1949, 1950, 1975, 1983, 2002) 73–53 Arizona State Pac-10 39–23 (15–9) Pat Murphy 18(last: 1998) 1st(1965, 1967, 1969, 1977, 1981) 55–30 Florida SEC 45–20 (20–10) Pat McMahon 4(last: 1998) 3rd(1991, 1996) 5–8 Oregon State Pac-10 46–10 (19–5) Pat Casey 1(last: 1952) 7th(1952) 0–2
Bracket
National championship series
Game 1 – Texas 4, Florida 2
Game 2 – Texas 6, Florida 2
All-Tournament Team
The following players were members of the College World Series All-Tournament Team. Position Player School P J. B. Cox Texas Kyle McCulloch Texas C Taylor Teagarden Texas 1B Jeff Larish Arizona State 2B Joey Hooft Arizona State 3B David Maroul (MOP) Texas SS Seth Johnston Texas OF Travis Buck Arizona State Colin Curtis Arizona State Andy Gerch Nebraska DH Will Crouch Texas
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