The 1975 NCAA Division I baseball tournament was played at the end of the 1975 NCAA Division I baseball season to determine the national champion of

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. The tournament concluded with eight teams competing in the

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, a double-elimination tournament in its twenty-ninth year. Eight regional competitions were held to determine the participants in the final event. Each region held a four team, double-elimination tournament, resulting in 32 teams participating in the tournament at the conclusion of their regular season, and in some cases, after a conference tournament. The twenty-ninth tournament's champion was

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, coached by Cliff Gustafson, their first in a quarter-century. The Most Outstanding Player was Mickey Reichenbach of

. This was the first year the tournament used the regionals. The 1975 tournament marked the first appearance for

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, which would become a college baseball superpower in the succeeding decades, claiming seven national championships between 1991 and 2023. LSU had earlier won the 1961

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championship to earn an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament, but declined the bid to avoid playing integrated teams. This season also marked the first appearance for

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, which would claim four national championships from 1979 through 2004. Head coach

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guided the Titans to three titles before moving to

, where he claimed three more titles from 2002 through 2009.

Regionals

1975 was the first year the NCAA featured the ''Regional'' format for the tournament, which is still in use today, although it has been modified.

Northeast Regional

Games played in

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Atlantic Regional

Games played in

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Mideast Regional

Games played in

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South Regional

Games played in

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Midwest Regional

Games played in

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South Central Regional

Games played in

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Rocky Mountain Regional

Games played in Tempe, AZ.

West Regional

Games played in

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College World Series

Seton Hall, South Carolina, Eastern Michigan, Florida St., Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona St. and Cal St. Fullerton won their regionals and moved on to the 1975 College World Series.

Participants

Results

Bracket

Game results

All-Tournament Team

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

Notable players

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, Chris Bando,

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, Mike Colbern, Dave Hudgens,

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, Jerry Maddox, Chris Nyman,

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, Ken Phelps,

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: Danny Boone, George Horton *

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: Glenn Gulliver, John Martin,

Bob Owchinko Robert Dennis Owchinko (born January 1, 1955) is an American former professional baseball left-handed pitcher who played all or parts of ten seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). Initially drafted by the San Diego Padres, he played for five tea ...

, Bob Welch *

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: Juan Bonilla,

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, Terry Kennedy, Carlos Lezcano,

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: Terry Bogener,

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, Bob Shirley *

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Rick Cerone Richard Aldo Cerone (born May 19, 1954) is an American former professional baseball player, television sports color commentator and minor league baseball team owner. He played in Major League Baseball as a catcher from to with the Cleveland I ...

, Dan Morogiello, Charlie Puleo *

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, Greg Keatley, Ed Lynch, Jim Pankovits, Hank Small *

: Jim Gideon, Don Kainer,

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, Rich Wortham

Tournament Notes

The Arizona State team featured 13 future Major League players – a record matched by the school's team from the following year. Texas came back to win the CWS after losing in Game 7 to Arizona State.

References

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