1954 NCAA baseball season

1954 NCAA baseball season
NCAA Tournament
College World Series
Champions	Missouri
Runners-up	Michigan State
MOP	Tom Yewcic (Michigan State)
Seasons
← 1953	1955 →

The 1954 NCAA baseball season, play of college baseball in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) began in the spring of 1954. The season progressed through the regular season and concluded with the 1954 College World Series. The College World Series, held for the eighth time in 1954, consisted of one team from each of eight geographical districts and was held in Omaha, Nebraska at Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium as a double-elimination tournament. Missouri claimed the championship.^[1]

Realignment

Seven teams (Clemson, Duke, Maryland, North Carolina, NC State, South Carolina, and Wake Forest) departed the Southern Conference. They, together with Virginia, created the new Atlantic Coast Conference. Both leagues adopted single division formats, instead of the SoCon's previous two division format. Neither conference held a postseason tournament in 1954.

Conference winners

This is a partial list of conference champions from the 1954 season. Each of the eight geographical districts chose, by various methods, the team that would represent them in the NCAA Tournament. Twelve teams earned automatic bids by winning their conference championship, and eleven teams earned at-large selections.^[1][2]

Conference	Regular Season Winner
Atlantic Coast Conference	Clemson
Big Seven Conference	Missouri
Big Ten Conference	Michigan State
CIBA	Southern California
EIBL	Navy
Mid-American Conference	Ohio
Pacific Coast Conference	Oregon
Southeastern Conference	Georgia
Southern Conference	Virginia Tech
Southwest Conference	Texas

Conference standings

The following is an incomplete list of conference standings:

1954 Big Seven Conference baseball standings Conf     Overall Team W   L   PCT     W   L   PCT Missouri †^y 11 – 1   .917     22 – 4   .846 Oklahoma 8 – 4   .667     12 – 8   .600 Iowa State 7 – 7   .500     –   – Kansas 4 – 5   .444     10 – 6   .625 Colorado 4 – 6   .400     –   – Nebraska 4 – 8   .333     10 – 10   .500 Kansas State 3 – 10   .231     8 – 12   .400 † – Conference champion y – Invited to the NCAA Tournament As of June 30, 1954[3]; Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

College World Series

The 1954 season marked the eighth NCAA Baseball Tournament, which consisted of the eight team College World Series. The College World Series was held in Omaha, Nebraska. The eight teams played a double-elimination format, with Missouri claiming their first championship with a 7–5 win over Texas in the final.^[1]

First Round

Second Round

Third Round

Winner's Bracket

Michigan State

16

Massachusetts

5

Michigan State

2

Arizona

1

Arizona

12

Oregon

1

Michigan State

4

Rollins

5

Rollins

9*

Oklahoma A&M

5*

Rollins

4

Missouri

1

Missouri

5

Lafayette

3

Loser's Bracket

Massachusetts

5

Oregon

3

Missouri

8

Massachusetts

1

Oklahoma A&M

4

Lafayette

2

Arizona

4†

Oklahoma A&M

5†

Semifinals

Finals

if needed

Re-ordered Semi-finals

Rollins

2‡

Rollins

1

Michigan State

3‡

Missouri

4

Michigan State

3

Missouri

4

Missouri

7

Oklahoma A&M

3

* - Indicates game required 11 innings. † - Indicates game required 14 innings. ‡ - Indicates game required 10 innings.

Award winners

All-America team

References

1. W.C. Madden and Patrick J. Stewart (2004). The College World Series:A Baseball History, 1947-2003. McFarland & Co. pp. 28–31. Retrieved August 1, 2013.
2. "NCAA Men's College World Series Records" (PDF). NCAA. 2009. p. 7. Retrieved August 2, 2013.
3. "College Baseball Conference Standings -- 1954". Boyd's World. Retrieved August 1, 2013.