The 1999 NCAA Division I baseball season, play of
college baseball
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in the United States organized by the
National Collegiate Athletic Association
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(NCAA) began in the spring of 1999. The season progressed through the regular season and concluded with the
1999 College World Series
The 1999 NCAA Division I baseball tournament was played at the end of the 1999 NCAA Division I baseball season to determine the national champion of college baseball. The tournament was expanded to 64 teams for 1999, adding a Super Regional. The t ...
. The College World Series, held for the fifty third time in 1999, consisted of one team from each of eight super regional competitions and was held in
Omaha, Nebraska
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, at
Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium
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as a double-elimination tournament.
Miami (FL)
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claimed the championship for the third time.
Realignment
*
Lamar left the
Sun Belt Conference and joined the
Southland Conference
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.
Format changes
*The
Big West Conference
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,
Mid-Continent Conference
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, and
Pacific-10 Conference dissolved their two division formats.
*The
Trans America Athletic Conference dissolved its unique three division format.
*The
West Coast Conference divided into two divisions of four teams each, named West and Coast.
*The
Northeast Conference
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added
Central Connecticut (formerly of the
Mid-Continent Conference
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),
Quinnipiac
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(formerly
NCAA Division II
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), and
UMBC
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(formerly of the
Big South Conference) and created North and South Divisions of five and four teams, respectively.
Conference winners
This is a partial list of conference champions from the 1999 season. The NCAA sponsored regional and super regional competitions to determine the College World Series participants. Each of the sixteen regionals consisted of four teams competing in double-elimination tournaments, with the winners advancing to eight best of three Super Regionals. The winners of each Super Regional advanced to Omaha. 29 teams earned automatic bids by winning their conference championship while 35 teams earned at-large selections.
Conference standings
The following is an incomplete list of conference standings:
College World Series
The 1999 season marked the fifty third NCAA Baseball Tournament, which culminated with the eight team
College World Series
The College World Series (CWS), officially the NCAA Men's College World Series (MCWS), is an annual baseball tournament held in June in Omaha, Nebraska. The MCWS is the culmination of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Divisi ...
. The College World Series was held in
Omaha, Nebraska
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. The eight teams played a double-elimination format, with Miami (FL) claiming their third championship with a 6–5 win over Florida State in the final.
Bracket
Award winners
All-America team
References
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