2005 NCAA Division I baseball tournament

The 2005 NCAA Division I baseball tournament was held from May 30 through June 26, 2005. 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.

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 Rhode Island Tournament champion Big 12 Nebraska Tournament champion Big East Template:CBSB link Tournament champion Big South Template:CBSB link Tournament champion Big Ten Template:CBSB link Tournament champion Big West Template:CBSB link Regular-season champion CAA VCU 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 Oregon State Regular-season champion Patriot League Template:CBSB link Tournament champion SEC Mississippi State 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 WAC Template:CBSB link Regular-season champion WCC Template:CBSB link Championship series winner

Bids by conference

Conference	Total	Schools
Southeastern	9	Template:CBSB link, Template:CBSB link, Template:CBSB link, Florida, Template:CBSB link, Mississippi State, Template:CBSB link, Template:CBSB link, Template:CBSB link
Atlantic Coast	7	Clemson, Template:CBSB link, Template:CBSB link, Template:CBSB link, Template:CBSB link, Template:CBSB link, Template:CBSB link
Big 12	5	Baylor, Missouri, Nebraska, Template:CBSB link, Texas
Pacific-10	5	Arizona, Arizona State, Oregon State, Template:CBSB link, Template:CBSB link
Conference USA	4	Template:CBSB link, Template:CBSB link, Template:CBSB link, Template:CBSB link
Atlantic Sun	2	Template:CBSB link, Template:CBSB link
Big East	2	Template:CBSB link, Template:CBSB link
Big South	2	Template:CBSB link, Template:CBSB link
Big Ten	2	Template:CBSB link, Template:CBSB link
Big West	2	Template:CBSB link, Template:CBSB link
Missouri Valley	2	Template:CBSB link, Template:CBSB link
Southern	2	Template:CBSB link, Template:CBSB link
Southland	2	Template:CBSB link, Template:CBSB link
Sun Belt	2	Template:CBSB link, Template:CBSB link
America East	1	Template:CBSB link
Atlantic 10	1	Rhode Island
Colonial Athletic	1	VCU
Horizon	1	Template:CBSB link
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
Southwestern Athletic	1	Template:CBSB link
Western Athletic	1	Template:CBSB link
West Coast	1	Template:CBSB link

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.

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3. Nebraska
4. Baylor
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7. Florida
8. Oregon State

Regionals and super regionals

Bold indicates winner.

College World Series

Participants

School	Conference	Record (conference)	Head coach	CWS appearances	Best CWS finish	CWS record Not including this year
Template:CBSB link	C-USA	55–10 (24–6)	Rick Jones	2 (last: 2001)	5th (2001)	1–2
Template:CBSB link	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

National championship series

Game 1 – Texas 4, Florida 2

Saturday, June 25, 2005 6:14 pm (CT) at Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha, Nebraska Game 1

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Texas	1	0	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	4	8	2
Florida	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	4	3
Template:Br separated entries Game 2 – Texas 6, Florida 2 Sunday, June 26, 2005 2:11 pm (CT) at Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha, Nebraska Game 2 Team Template:Linescore/style | 1 Template:Linescore/style | 2 Template:Linescore/style | 3 Template:Linescore/style | 4 Template:Linescore/style | 5 Template:Linescore/style | 6 Template:Linescore/style | 7 Template:Linescore/style | 8 Template:Linescore/style | 9 Template:Linescore/style | R Template:Linescore/style | H Template:Linescore/style | E Florida 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 6 1 Texas 0 1 0 1 0 4 0 0 X 6 10 0 Template:Br separated entries All-Tournament Team The following players were members of the College World Series All-Tournament Team. Position Player School P J. B. Cox style=Template:CollegePrimaryStyle|Texas Kyle McCulloch style=Template:CollegePrimaryStyle|Texas C Taylor Teagarden style=Template:CollegePrimaryStyle|Texas 1B Jeff Larish style=Template:CollegeSecondaryStyle|Arizona State 2B Joey Hooft style=Template:CollegeSecondaryStyle|Arizona State 3B David Maroul (MOP) style=Template:CollegePrimaryStyle|Texas SS Seth Johnston style=Template:CollegePrimaryStyle|Texas OF Travis Buck style=Template:CollegeSecondaryStyle|Arizona State Colin Curtis style=Template:CollegeSecondaryStyle|Arizona State Andy Gerch style=Template:CollegePrimaryStyle|Nebraska DH Will Crouch style=Template:CollegePrimaryStyle|Texas References