The 2017 NCAA Division I baseball season, play of

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in the United States organized by the

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(NCAA) at the Division I level, began in February 2017. The season progressed through the regular season, many conference tournaments and championship series, and concluded with the 2017 NCAA Division I baseball tournament and 2017 College World Series. The College World Series, consisted of the eight remaining teams in the NCAA tournament and held annually in

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, ended June 27, 2017.

Realignment

* Coastal Carolina left the Big South Conference for the Sun Belt Conference. The move officially took effect hours after

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won the College World Series. In doing so, the Sun Belt Conference split into East and West divisions for this season. *

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, a member of the

Western Athletic Conference The Western Athletic Conference (WAC) is an NCAA Division I conference. The WAC covers a broad expanse of the western United States with member institutions located in Arizona, California, New Mexico, Utah, Washington, and Texas. Due to mos ...

in baseball (as well as swimming and diving for both sexes), dropped baseball. The 2017 season was also the last for one school's baseball program, and the last for two other programs in their then-current conferences. In addition, the last remaining Division I independent left for its full-time home of Division II. * Buffalo dropped baseball at the end of the season. *

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, which had been left independent after the 2013 collapse of the

Great West Conference The Great West Conference (GWC) was an NCAA college athletic conference in the continental United States. Originally a football-only league, it became an all-sports entity during the 2008–09 season. The GWC stopped sponsoring football followin ...

, dropped its baseball program to Division II, joining the school's full-time home of the

East Coast Conference The East Coast Conference (ECC) is a college athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division II level. Member institutions are located in the northeastern United States in the states of C ...

. * Valparaiso left its home of the previous 10 seasons, the

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, for the

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(MVC). * Wichita State left the MVC, its conference home since 1945, to become a full but non-football member of the

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Season outlook

Conference standings

Conference winners and tournaments

Of the 31 Division I

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that sponsor baseball, 29 end their

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s with a

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or a

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. The teams in each conference that win their regular season title are given the number one seed in each tournament. Two conferences, the Big West and Pac-12, do not hold a conference tournament. The winners of these tournaments, plus the Big West and Pac-12 regular-season champions, receive automatic invitations to the 2017 NCAA Division I baseball tournament. , ,

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Mountain West Conference The Mountain West Conference (MW) is one of the collegiate athletic conferences affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) (formerly I-A). The MW officially began operations ...

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Southland Conference The Southland Conference, abbreviated as SLC, is a collegiate athletic conference which operates in the South Central United States (specifically Texas and Louisiana). It participates in the NCAA's Division I for all sports; for football, it ...

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College World Series

The 2017 College World Series began on June 17 in

Award winners

Consensus All-American teams

Major player of the year awards

Dick Howser Trophy The Dick Howser Trophy is bestowed annually to the national college baseball player of the year. The award is named after former collegiate and Major League Baseball (MLB) player and manager Dick Howser, who died of brain cancer in 1987 at the age ...

: Brendan McKay, 1B/P,

Louisville Louisville ( , , ) is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the 28th most-populous city in the United States. Louisville is the historical seat and, since 2003, the nominal seat of Jefferson County, on the Indiana border. ...

* ''Baseball America'': Brendan McKay, 1B/P, Louisville * ''Collegiate Baseball''/

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: Brendan McKay, 1B/P, Louisville & Brent Rooker, 1B,

American Baseball Coaches Association The American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) is the world's largest amateur baseball coaching organization. It was founded in 1945 as the American Association of College Baseball Coaches. Now, the ABCA is composed of over 13,000 baseball coac ...

: Brendan McKay, 1B/P, Louisville *

Golden Spikes Award The Golden Spikes Award is bestowed annually to the best amateur baseball player in the United States. The award, created by USA Baseball and sponsored by the Major League Baseball Players Association, was first presented in 1978. It is given to ...

: Brendan McKay, 1B/P, Louisville

Major freshman of the year awards

* ''Baseball America'' Freshman Of The Year:

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, OF/P,

Southern Miss The University of Southern Mississippi (Southern Miss or USM) is a public research university with its main campus located in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. It is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award bachelor's, ma ...

* ''Collegiate Baseball'' Freshman Players of the Year: Kevin Milam, DH/P, Saint Mary's; Sean Mooney, P, St. John's; Braden Shewmake, 2B,

Texas A&M Texas A&M University (Texas A&M, A&M, or TAMU) is a public, land-grant, research university in College Station, Texas. It was founded in 1876 and became the flagship institution of the Texas A&M University System in 1948. As of late 2021, T ...

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Major coach of the year awards

: Kevin O'Sullivan,

* ''Baseball America'':

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, Louisville * ''Collegiate Baseball'' Coach of the Year: Kevin O'Sullivan, Florida * National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) National Coach of the Year: Pat Casey,

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Assistant Coach of the Year:

Other major awards

* Senior CLASS Award (baseball) (outstanding Senior of the Year in baseball): Anthony Critelli, Holy Cross *

Johnny Bench Award The Buster Posey Award, formerly known as the Johnny Bench Award, was created in 2000 to honor college baseball's top catcher in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I. The award is administered by the Greater Wichita Area Sp ...

(Catcher of the Year): *

Brooks Wallace Award The Brooks Wallace Award is an award given by the College Baseball Foundation (CBF) to the best college baseball shortstop of the year. The award has been given annually since 2004. Until 2008 the award was presented to the nation's most outstandi ...

(Shortstop of the Year):

Logan Warmoth Logan Brock Warmoth (born September 6, 1995) is an American professional baseball shortstop who is a free agent. High school and college Warmoth attended Lake Brantley High School in Altamonte Springs, Florida. In high school, he was ranked as th ...

North Carolina North Carolina () is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States. The state is the 28th largest and 9th-most populous of the United States. It is bordered by Virginia to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, Georgia and So ...

John Olerud Award The John Olerud Two-Way Player of the Year Award (known colloquially as the John Olerud Award) is a college baseball award given to the best two-way player of the season. The award is named after former Washington State Cougars All-American pitch ...

(best two-way player): Brendan McKay, Louisville *

Gold Glove:

Coaching changes

This table lists programs that changed head coaches at any point from the first day of the 2017 season until the day before the first day of the 2018 season.

Attendances

2016 teams with an average home attendance of at least 10,000:

References

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