The 2000 NCAA Division I baseball tournament was played at the end of the
2000 NCAA Division I baseball season
The 2000 NCAA Division I baseball season, play of college baseball in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) began in the spring of 2000. The season progressed through the regular season and concluded ...
to determine the national champion of
college baseball
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. The tournament concluded with eight teams competing in the
College World Series
The College World Series (CWS), officially the NCAA Men's College World Series (MCWS), is a baseball tournament held each June in Omaha, Nebraska. It is the culmination of the NCAA Division I baseball tournament—featuring 64 teams in the ...
, a double-elimination tournament in its fifty fourth year. Sixteen regional competitions were held to determine the participants in the final event, with each winner advancing to a best of three series against another regional champion for the right to play in the College World Series. Each region was composed of four teams, resulting in 64 teams participating in the tournament at the conclusion of their regular season, and in some cases, after a conference tournament.
The fifty-fourth tournament's champion was
LSU
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, coached by
Skip Bertman. The
Most Outstanding Player was
Trey Hodges of
LSU
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.
National seeds
''Bold indicates CWS participant.''
#South Carolina
#LSU
#Georgia Tech
#Clemson
#Houston
#Florida State
#Arizona State
#Stanford
Regionals and super regionals
Bold indicates winner.
* indicates host.
Columbia Super Regional
Baton Rouge Super Regional
Atlanta Super Regional
Clemson Super Regional
Houston Super Regional
Tallahassee Super Regional
Austin Super Regional
Hosted by Texas at
Disch–Falk Field in
Austin, Texas
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Palo Alto Super Regional
Notes on tournament field
* Army, Butler, and Wagner were making their first NCAA tournament appearance.
College World Series
Participants
Results
Bracket
Game results
All-Tournament Team
The following players were members of the College World Series All-Tournament Team.
Notable players
*
Clemson:
*
Florida State
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:
Marshall McDougall
*
LSU
Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, commonly referred to as Louisiana State University (LSU), is an American Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Baton Rouge, Louis ...
:
Trey Hodges,
Brian Tallet,
Ryan Theriot,
Mike Fontenot,
Brad Hawpe,
Brad Cresse, Ray Wright
*
Louisiana–Lafayette: Scott Dohmann
*
San Jose State:
*
Stanford
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:
Joe Borchard,
Justin Wayne
*
Texas
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: Beau Hale, Phil Seibel, Ryan Hubele,
Tommy Nicholson, Todd West, Charlie Thames
*
USC USC may refer to:
Education
United States
* Universidad del Sagrado Corazón, Santurce, Puerto Rico
* University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina
** University of South Carolina System, a state university system of South Carolina
* ...
:
Mark Prior,
Anthony Reyes
See also
*
2000 NCAA Division II baseball tournament
*
2000 NCAA Division III baseball tournament
*
2000 NAIA World Series
References
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