1949 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament
Encyclopedia
The 1949 Division I Baseball Tournament was the third NCAA sanctioned baseball tournament that determined a national champion. Texas
would go on to win the championship, their first of 6 championships.
Region A: St. John's (New York)
defeated Boston College
two games to none.
Region B: Wake Forest
defeated Notre Dame
two games to none.
Region C: Texas defeated Oklahoma State
two games to none.
Region D: Southern California
defeated Northern Colorado
two games to one.
The winner of each Region moved on to the 1949 College World Series
, played in Wichita, KS.
University of Texas at Austin
The University of Texas at Austin is a state research university located in Austin, Texas, USA, and is the flagship institution of the The University of Texas System. Founded in 1883, its campus is located approximately from the Texas State Capitol in Austin...
would go on to win the championship, their first of 6 championships.
Tournament
The tournament was divided into four regional brackets, Region A, Region B, Region C and Region D, with each region consisting of two teams playing a best-of-three game series.Region A: St. John's (New York)
St. John's University (New York City)
St. John's University is a private, Roman Catholic, coeducational university located in New York City, United States. Founded by the Congregation of the Mission in 1870, the school was originally located in the borough of Brooklyn in the neighborhood of Bedford–Stuyvesant...
defeated Boston College
Boston College
Boston College is a private Jesuit research university located in the village of Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA. The main campus is bisected by the border between the cities of Boston and Newton. It has 9,200 full-time undergraduates and 4,000 graduate students. Its name reflects its early...
two games to none.
Region B: Wake Forest
Wake Forest University
Wake Forest University is a private, coeducational university in the U.S. state of North Carolina, founded in 1834. The university received its name from its original location in Wake Forest, north of Raleigh, North Carolina, the state capital. The Reynolda Campus, the university's main campus, is...
defeated Notre Dame
University of Notre Dame
The University of Notre Dame du Lac is a Catholic research university located in Notre Dame, an unincorporated community north of the city of South Bend, in St. Joseph County, Indiana, United States...
two games to none.
Region C: Texas defeated Oklahoma State
Oklahoma State University–Stillwater
Oklahoma State University–Stillwater is a land-grant, sun-grant, coeducational public research university located in Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA. OSU was founded in 1890 under the Morrill Act...
two games to none.
Region D: Southern California
University of Southern California
The University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university...
defeated Northern Colorado
University of Northern Colorado
-Organization:The University of Northern Colorado offers 100 undergraduate programs and more than 100 graduate programs. The university has a satellite campus in Denver, Colorado...
two games to one.
The winner of each Region moved on to the 1949 College World Series
1949 College World Series
The College World Series was played in Wichita, Kansas from June 22 to June 25. The third tournament's champion was the Texas Longhorns, coached by Bibb Falk. The Most Outstanding Player was Tom Hamilton of the Texas.-Participants:-Bracket:...
, played in Wichita, KS.