1968 NCAA University Division baseball season

1968 NCAA University Division baseball season
NCAA Tournament
College World Series
Champions	Southern California
Runners-up	Southern Illinois
MOP	Bill Seinsoth (Southern California)
Seasons
← 1967	1969 →

The 1968 NCAA University Division baseball season, play of college baseball in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) began in the spring of 1968. The season progressed through the regular season and concluded with the 1968 College World Series. The College World Series, held for the twenty second time in 1968, 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. Southern California claimed the championship.^[1]

Conference winners

This is a partial list of conference champions from the 1968 season. Each of the eight geographical districts chose, by various methods, the team that would represent them in the NCAA Tournament. 10 teams earned automatic bids by winning their conference championship while 17 teams earned at-large selections.^[1][2]

Conference	Regular Season Winner
Atlantic Coast Conference	NC State
Big Eight Conference	Oklahoma State
Big Ten Conference	Minnesota
EIBL	Harvard
Mid-American Conference	Ohio
Pacific-8 Conference	Southern California
Southeastern Conference	Alabama
Southern Conference	East Carolina
Southwest Conference	Texas

Conference standings

The following is an incomplete list of conference standings:

1968 Pacific-8 Conference baseball standings Conf     Overall Team W   L   PCT     W   L   PCT #1 Southern California †^y 16 – 2   .889     43 – 12   .782 #26 Stanford 13 – 4   .765     36 – 12   .750 Washington State 11 – 7   .611     29 – 9   .763 UCLA 11 – 9   .550     35 – 20   .636 Oregon 8 – 10   .444     –   – California 7 – 12   .368     24 – 24   .500 Oregon State 6 – 12   .333     23 – 13   .639 Washington 2 – 18   .100     15 – 26   .366 † – Conference champion y – Invited to the NCAA Tournament As of June 30, 1968[3]; Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

College World Series

The 1968 season marked the twenty second NCAA Baseball Tournament, which culminated with the eight team College World Series. The College World Series was held in Omaha, Nebraska. The eight teams played a double-elimination format, with Southern California claiming their fifth championship with an 4–3 win over Southern Illinois in the final.^[1]

First Round

Second Round

Third Round

Winner's Bracket

Harvard

0

St. John's

2

St. John's

3*

NC State

2*

Southern Illinois

6

NC State

7

St. John's

6

USC

7

Texas

5

Oklahoma State

8

Oklahoma State

5

USC

6

BYU

3

USC

5

Loser's Bracket

Harvard

1*

Southern Illinois

2*

Southern Illinois

7

Oklahoma State

1

Texas

7

BYU

0

Texas

5

NC State

6

Semifinals

Finals

if needed

Re-ordered Semi-finals

USC

2

NC State

0

USC

4

Southern Illinois

3

Southern Illinois

15

St. John's

0

*extra 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. 41–43. Retrieved August 15, 2014.
2. "NCAA Men's College World Series Records" (PDF). NCAA. 2009. p. 7. Retrieved August 15, 2014.
3. "College Baseball Conference Standings -- 1968". Boyd's World. Retrieved August 15, 2014.