2003 NCAA Division I baseball tournament

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The 2003 NCAA Division I baseball tournament was held May 30 through June 23, 2003. 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.

ESPN, which held the rights to the College World Series, began televising super regional games in 2003. As part of the contract with ESPN, four super regionals would begin on Friday and run through Sunday, while the other four super regionals would begin Saturday and run through Monday.

The 2003 College World Series saw a format change and the championship was decided by a best-of-three series. From 1950 through 1987, the College World Series was a true double elimination tournament. From 1988 through 2002, there were two double elimination pools, with the winner of each facing off in a one game championship.

In the 2003 championship series, Rice defeated Stanford two games to one. John Hudgins became the 16th player to win the College World Series Most Outstanding Player Award from a losing team.

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 Template:CBSB link Tournament champion
ACC Template:CBSB link Tournament champion
Atlantic Sun Template:CBSB link Tournament champion
A-10 Template:CBSB link Tournament champion
Big East Template:CBSB link Tournament champion
Big South Template:CBSB link Tournament champion
Big Ten Template:CBSB link Tournament champion
Big 12 Texas Tournament champion
Big West Template:CBSB link Regular-season champion
CAA Template:CBSB link Tournament champion
Conference USA Template:CBSB link Tournament champion
Horizon League Template:CBSB link Tournament champion
Ivy League Template:CBSB link Championship series winner
MAAC Template:CBSB link Tournament champion
MAC Template:CBSB link Tournament champion
Mid-Con Template:CBSB link Tournament champion
MEAC Template:CBSB link Tournament champion
Missouri Valley Template:CBSB link Tournament champion
MWC Template:CBSB link Tournament champion
NEC Template:CBSB link Tournament champion
OVC Template:CBSB link Tournament champion
Pac-10 Stanford Regular-season champion
Patriot League Template:CBSB link Tournament champion
SEC Template:CBSB link Tournament champion
SoCon Template:CBSB link Tournament champion
Southland Template:CBSB link Tournament champion
SWAC Template:CBSB link Tournament champion
Sun Belt Template:CBSB link Tournament champion
WCC Template:CBSB link Championship series winner
WAC Rice Regular-season champion

Bids by conference

Conference Total Schools
Southeastern 8 Template:CBSB link, Template:CBSB link, Template:CBSB link, Florida, Template:CBSB link, Template:CBSB link, Template:CBSB link, Template:CBSB link
Atlantic Coast 5 Clemson, Template:CBSB link, Template:CBSB link, Template:CBSB link, Template:CBSB link
Big 12 5 Template:CBSB link, Missouri, Template:CBSB link, Texas, Template:CBSB link
Conference USA 4 Template:CBSB link, Template:CBSB link, Template:CBSB link, Template:CBSB link
Pacific-10 4 Arizona, Template:CBSB link, Stanford, Template:CBSB link
Atlantic Sun 3 Template:CBSB link, Template:CBSB link, Template:CBSB link
Big West 3 Cal State Fullerton, Template:CBSB link, Template:CBSB link
Sun Belt 3 Template:CBSB link, Template:CBSB link, Template:CBSB link
Big East 2 Template:CBSB link, Template:CBSB link
Big Ten 2 Template:CBSB link, Template:CBSB link
Colonial Athletic 2 Template:CBSB link, Template:CBSB link
Missouri Valley 2 Template:CBSB link, Template:CBSB link
Southland 2 Template:CBSB link, Template:CBSB link
West Coast 2 Template:CBSB link, Template:CBSB link
America East 1 Template:CBSB link
Atlantic 10 1 Template:CBSB link
Big South 1 Template:CBSB link
Horizon 1 Template:CBSB link
Independent 1 Miami (FL)
Ivy 1 Template:CBSB link
Metro Atlantic 1 Template:CBSB link
Mid-American 1 Template:CBSB link
Mid-Continent 1 Template:CBSB link
Mid-Eastern 1 Template:CBSB link
Mountain West 1 Template:CBSB link
Northeast 1 Template:CBSB link
Ohio Valley 1 Template:CBSB link
Patriot 1 Template:CBSB link
Southern 1 Template:CBSB link
Southwestern Athletic 1 Template:CBSB link
Western Athletic 1 Rice

Tournament notes

  • UC Riverside, Illinois-Chicago, and UNC Wilmington were making their first NCAA tournament appearance.[1]

CWS records tied or broken

  • Total attendance: 260,091
  • Largest margin of victory in a championship game: 12
  • Stanford became the first team to lose three games at one College World Series.

National seeds

Bold indicates CWS participant.

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  5. Rice
  6. Stanford
  7. Cal State Fullerton
  8. Miami (FL)

Regionals and super regionals

Bold indicates winner.

Tallahassee Super Regional

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Baton Rouge Super Regional

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Columbia Super Regional

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Columbus Super Regional

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Houston Super Regional

The Houston Super Regional was hosted by Rice at Reckling Park. Template:8TeamBracket-2Elim-Double

Palo Alto Super Regional

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Fullerton Super Regional

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Coral Gables Super Regional

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College World Series

Participants

School Conference Record (conference) Head coach CWS appearances Best CWS finish CWS record
Not including this year
Cal State Fullerton Big West 48–14 (15–6) George Horton 11
(last: 2001)
1st
(1979, 1984, 1995)
25–18
Template:CBSB link SEC 45–20 (20–9) Smoke Laval 11
(last: 2000)
1st
(1991, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000)
29–13
Miami (FL) n/a 44–15–1 (n/a) Jim Morris 19
(last: 2001)
1st
(1982, 1985, 1999, 2001)
43–30
Template:CBSB link MVC 40–24 (19–11) Keith Guttin 0
(last: none)
none 0–0
Rice WAC 53–11 (25–5) Wayne Graham 3
(last: 2002)
5th
(1999)
1–6
Template:CBSB link SEC 44–20 (19–11) Ray Tanner 6
(last: 2002)
2nd
(1975, 1977, 2002)
13-12
Stanford Pac-10 46–15 (18–6) Mark Marquess 14
(last: 2002)
1st
(1987, 1988)
33–24
Texas Big 12 48–18 (19–8) Augie Garrido 29
(last: 2002)
1st
(1949, 1950, 1975, 1983, 2002)
68–49

Bracket

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Championship series

Saturday 6/21 Game #1

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Rice 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 8 1
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Sunday 6/22 Game #2

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Monday 6/23 Game #3

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Rice 3 1 0 0 0 7 0 3 X 14 14 0
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All-Tournament Team

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

Position Player School
P John Hudgins (MOP) style=Template:CollegePrimaryStyle|Stanford
Jeff Niemann style=Template:CollegePrimaryStyle|Rice
C Ryan Garko style=Template:CollegePrimaryStyle|Stanford
1B Curtis Thigpen style=Template:CollegePrimaryStyle|Texas
2B Enrique Cruz style=Template:CollegePrimaryStyle|Rice
3B Johnny Ash style=Template:CollegePrimaryStyle|Stanford
SS Justin Turner style=Template:CollegePrimaryStyle|Cal State Fullerton
OF Chris Kolkhorst style=Template:CollegePrimaryStyle|Rice
Danny Putnam style=Template:CollegePrimaryStyle|Stanford
Carlos Quentin style=Template:CollegePrimaryStyle|Stanford
DH P. J. Pilittere style=Template:CollegePrimaryStyle|Cal State Fullerton

References

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