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tournament concluded with the 2013

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, which began on June 15 and ended with the final round on June 25. The

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swept the

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in a best-of-three series to win the NCAA National Championship, the university's first in baseball and the 109th national title in all sports. The 64 participating

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teams were selected from an eligible pool of 298

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programs. Thirty teams were awarded an automatic bid as champions of their individual conferences. Additionally, 34 non-automatic qualifying teams were awarded at-large berths by the NCAA Division I Baseball Committee. The 64 teams were divided into sixteen regionals consisting of four teams each. All four teams, in each regional, competed in a double-elimination tournament. Regional champions then faced one another in a best-of-three games series in their individual Super Regional based upon a predetermined bracketed system. This format determined the final eight participants to advance to the College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska. Fourteen of the sixteen original Regional hosts advanced to their respective Super Regional; the exceptions were the #8 national seed

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Ducks and the

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Hokies. For the first time in television history,

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provided live cut-ins and highlights from all 16 Regionals with the new Bases Loaded platform — similar to

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and Buzzer Beater for college football and basketball.

Bids

Automatic bids

By conference

National seeds

These eight teams automatically host a Super Regional if they advance to that round. Oregon was the only team not to advance to the Super Regional.
Bold indicates CWS participant. # North Carolina # Vanderbilt # Oregon State # LSU # Cal State Fullerton # Virginia # Florida State # Oregon

Regionals and Super Regionals

Bold indicates winner. * indicates extra innings.

Chapel Hill Super Regional

Raleigh Super Regional

Fullerton Super Regional

Baton Rouge Super Regional

Corvallis Super Regional

Charlottesville Super Regional

Tallahassee Super Regional

Nashville Super Regional

College World Series

The College World Series began on June 15, 2013 and was held at

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Participants

Bracket

''Seeds listed below indicate national seeds only.'' ''All times

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Championship Series

Game 1

Game 2

All-Tournament Team

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

Final standings

''Seeds listed below indicate national seeds only''

Record by conference

The columns RF, SR, WS, NS, CS, and NC respectively stand for the Regional Finals, Super Regionals, College World Series, National Semifinals, Championship Series, and National Champion.

Tournament notes

Round 1

*Virginia Tech was the only #1 seed to be upset by a #4 seed (Connecticut) in its opening game. *Cal Poly and William & Mary recorded their first-ever NCAA tournament wins. * #3 seeds went 9–7 against #2 seeds in their opening games.

Round 2

*After 2 rounds, 14 of the 16 #1 seeds were 2–0 (Virginia Tech & Oregon were 1–1 and knocked into the losers bracket). *Three #4 seeds won elimination games on the 2nd day of the tournament: Central Arkansas, Columbia and Valparaiso.

Regional Finals

*Virginia Tech & Oregon were the only #1 seeds not advancing to the Super Regionals. *Central Arkansas was the only #4 seed to reach a regional final (Starkville). *All 4 teams which came from the losers' bracket and won to force an extra game, lost the 2nd game and failed to advance.

Super Regionals

*Game 2 between NC State and Rice went 17 innings, making it the fourth longest game in NCAA tournament history and the longest ever in the Super Regional round, which dates to 1999.

College World Series

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is the first Big Ten team to participate in the College World Series since 1984 (

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). *With Mississippi State's win over Oregon State in the semifinals, it marks the sixth consecutive College World Series in which the Southeastern Conference has fielded a conference member in the finals. *No top 8 national seed reached the CWS Finals for the first time since

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has made two appearances in the Finals and a

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team has played in the Championship series three times. * The Finals featured an SEC team against a Pac-10/12 team for the third time in four years.

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defeated UCLA in

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defeated South Carolina in

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. Before 2010, teams from those conferences had met in the finals just once (

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). *

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of UCLA set a new NCAA single-season record with his 24th save on June 24, 2013. and made his 51st appearance of the season, becoming the first pitcher in NCAA history to record 50 or more appearances in multiple seasons. * UCLA won its first NCAA baseball Championship, becoming the third team to win the Championship with a perfect 10–0 record, the first team to allow no more than one run in each game of the series, and the fourth straight team to sweep the CWS Finals. * All-Tournament Team: Brian Holberton (C), NC; Wes Rea (1B), MSU.; Brett Pirtle (2B), MSU; Colin Moran (3B) NC; Pat Valaika (SS), UCLA; Michael Conforto (OF), OSU; Eric Filia (OF), UCLA; Hunter Renfroe (OF), MSU; Trey Porter (DH), MSU;

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(P), UCLA (also the Most Outstanding Player); Nick Vander Tuig (P), UCLA. * With the 8–0 shutout loss in game two of the finals, Mississippi State becomes the first team in twenty years to be held scoreless in the CWS finals, (Wichita State lost 8–0 to LSU in 1993), and only the sixth team in CWS history to be held scoreless in the finals. * UCLA tied the Santa Clara CWS record for number of sacrifice bunts at 12, set in 1962. * New attendance record was set on June 25 at 27,127.

Media coverage

Radio

NRG Media, in conjunction with

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/NCAA Radio Network, provided nationwide radio coverage of the College World Series, which was streamed online at dialglobalsports.com and broadcast across radio stations throughout the US.

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and

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called all games leading up to the Championship Series. The championship series was called by Kugler and

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with Ted Emrich acting as field reporter for the first time.

Television

For the first time ever ESPN carried every game from the Regionals, Super Regionals, and College World Series across the ESPN Networks (

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, ESPNU, and

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). ESPN also provided Bases Loaded coverage for the Regionals. Bases Loaded was hosted by Dari Nowkhah and

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with

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on hand as analysts. Bases Loaded aired the entire time on ESPN3 with select coverage on ESPN2 and ESPNU.

Broadcast assignments

''Regionals'' *

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- Nashville, Tennessee * Kevin Dunn &

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- Manhattan, Kansas * Adam Amin &

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- Tallahassee, Florida *

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& Chris Burke - Columbia, South Carolina *

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- Fullerton, California * Tom Hart &

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- Corvallis, Oregon *

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& Jay Walker - Starkville, Mississippi * Mike Morgan &

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- Louisville, Kentucky ''Super Regionals'' * Dari Nowkhah, Danny Graves, & Danny Kanell - Chapel Hill, North Carolina *Tom Hart & Paul Lo Duca - Raleigh, NC *

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, &

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- Baton Rouge, Louisiana *Carter Blackburn,

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, &

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- Fullerton, California ''College World Series'' *

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, & Jessica Mendoza: Evenings ''Regionals'' *

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& John Manual - Chapel Hill, North Carolina *

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& Leland Maddox - Baton Rouge, Louisiana * Dave Weekley & John Gregory - Charlottesville, Virginia *

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- Eugene, Oregon *

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- Raleigh, North Carolina *

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- Los Angeles, Californian * Mark Neely &

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- Blacksburg, Virginia * Jim Barbar & Randy Ensor - Bloomington, Indiana ''Super Regionals'' *Mike Morgan &

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- Tallahassee, Florida *Clay Matvick & Ben McDonald - Charlottesville, Virginia *Dave Neal & Chris Burke - Nashville, Tennessee *Joe Davis,

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, & Jay Walker - Corvallis, Oregon ''College World Series Championship'' *Mike Patrick, Orel Hershiser, Kyle Peterson, Jessica Mendoza, & Kaylee Hartung

References

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