2006 NCAA Division I baseball tournament
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The 2006 NCAA Division I baseball tournament was held from June 2 through June 26, 2006. 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.
After winning the regional and super regional rounds of the 2006 NCAA Division I baseball tournament, eight teams advanced to Omaha. Clemson, Template:CBSB link, North Carolina, Cal State Fullerton, Oregon State, Template:CBSB link, Template:CBSB link, and Miami (FL) all won their super-regionals and made the trip to the 2006 College World Series. Five national seeds advanced to Omaha: Clemson (1), Rice (2), Cal State Fullerton (5), Georgia (7), and Georgia Tech (8). Third-seeded Template:CBSB link and sixth-seeded Template:CBSB link both fell in the regionals, while the fourth seed Template:CBSB link lost in super regional play.
The first pitch of the 2006 CWS was Friday, June 16, at 1:00 PM CDT (18:00 UTC). The 2006 tournament was only the second time in CWS history in which 16 games were played (the other being the 2003 College World Series).
After losing their tournament opener to Miami (FL), the Oregon State Beavers staved off elimination for four straight games to win their bracket and advance to the championship series. The Template:CBSB link, who had not lost a three-game series all season, were shut out in consecutive games by the Beavers and failed to score in a CWS-record 23 innings. Oregon State advanced to face North Carolina in the final.
The best-of-three championship series featured Oregon State and North Carolina. Oregon State won the deciding game, 3–2, winning the school's first national title in baseball and its second NCAA championship overall. All games were televised on ESPN and ESPN2.
Oregon State set a CWS record by winning six elimination games (four in bracket play, two in the championship series) and also became the first team ever to lose twice in Omaha and still win the title. Oregon State is the only team besides Holy Cross in 1952 to win six games in the College World Series. Oregon State played in half (eight of 16) of the games in the tournament.
OSU pitcher Jonah Nickerson was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player.
Five-time national champion LSU was left out of the field of 64, the first time since 1988 that the Tigers failed to qualify for a regional. LSU's overall record of 35–24 merited at-large consideration, but it was undone by poor performance in the Southeastern Conference, where the Tigers finished 8th out of 12 teams at 13–17. LSU won national championships in 1991, '93, '96, '97 and 2000 under Hall of Fame coach Skip Bertman, who was the school's athletic director at this time. Ten days after LSU's season ended, Bertman fired his successor, Smoke Laval, and hired Notre Dame coach Paul Mainieri.
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.
Bids by conference
| Conference | Total | Schools |
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| Southeastern | 8 | Template:CBSB link, Template:CBSB link, Template:CBSB link, Template:CBSB link, Template:CBSB link, Template:CBSB link, Template:CBSB link, Template:CBSB link |
| Atlantic Coast | 7 | Clemson, Template:CBSB link, Template:CBSB link, Miami (FL), North Carolina, Template:CBSB link, Template:CBSB link |
| Big 12 | 7 | Template:CBSB link, Template:CBSB link, Missouri, Template:CBSB link, Template:CBSB link, Template:CBSB link, Template:CBSB link |
| Conference USA | 4 | Template:CBSB link, Template:CBSB link, Template:CBSB link, Template:CBSB link |
| Pacific-10 | 4 | Template:CBSB link, Oregon State, Template:CBSB link, Template:CBSB link |
| WCC | 3 | Template:CBSB link, Template:CBSB link. Template:CBSB link |
| Atlantic Sun | 2 | Template:CBSB link, Template:CBSB link |
| Big South | 2 | Template:CBSB link, Template:CBSB link |
| Big West | 2 | Template:CBSB link, Cal State Fullerton |
| Missouri Valley | 2 | Template:CBSB link, Template:CBSB link |
| Southern | 2 | Template:CBSB link, Template:CBSB link |
| Sun Belt | 2 | Template:CBSB link, Template:CBSB link |
| Western Athletic | 2 | Template:CBSB link, Template:CBSB link |
| America East | 1 | Template:CBSB link |
| Atlantic 10 | 1 | Template:CBSB link |
| Big East | 1 | Template:CBSB link |
| Big Ten | 1 | Template:CBSB link |
| Colonial | 1 | Template:CBSB link |
| Horizon | 1 | Template:CBSB link |
| Ivy | 1 | Template:CBSB link |
| Metro Atlantic | 1 | Template:CBSB link |
| Mid-American | 1 | Template:CBSB link |
| Mid-Con | 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 |
| Southland | 1 | Template:CBSB link |
| Southwestern | 1 | Template:CBSB link |
National seeds
Bold indicates CWS participant.
- Clemson
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- Cal State Fullerton
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Regionals and super regionals
Bold indicates winner.
Clemson Super Regional
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Houston Super Regional
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Corvallis Super Regional
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Tuscaloosa Super Regional
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Fullerton Super Regional
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Oxford Super Regional
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Athens Super Regional
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Atlanta 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 |
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| Clemson | ACC | 52–14 (24–6) | Jack Leggett | 10 (last: 2002) |
3rd (1996, 2002) |
9–20 |
| Cal State Fullerton | Big West | 48–13 (18–3) | George Horton | 13 (last: 2004) |
1st (1979, 1984, 1995, 2004) |
32–21 |
| Template:CBSB link | SEC | 47–21 (18–12) | David Perno | 4 (last: 2004) |
1st (1990) |
6–7 |
| Template:CBSB link | ACC | 50–16 (19–11) | Danny Hall | 2 (last: 2002) |
2nd (1994) |
4–3 |
| Miami (FL) | ACC | 41–22 (17–13) | Jim Morris | 21 (last: 2004) |
1st (1982, 1985, 1999, 2001) |
45–34 |
| North Carolina | ACC | 50–13 (22–8) | Mike Fox | 4 (last: 1989) |
3rd (1978) |
2–8 |
| Oregon State | Pac-10 | 44–14 (16–7) | Pat Casey | 2 (last: 2005) |
7th (1952, 2005) |
0–4 |
| Template:CBSB link | C-USA | 55–11 (22–2) | Wayne Graham | 4 (last: 2003) |
1st (2003) |
6–7 |
Bracket
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Championship series
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