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The 2013 NCAA Division I baseball tournament began on Friday, May 31, 2013, as part of the
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. The 64 team
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tournament concluded with the 2013
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in
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, which began on June 15 and ended with the final round on June 25. The
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swept the
Mississippi State Bulldogs Mississippi State Bulldogs is the name given to the college athletics, athletic teams of Mississippi State University, in Mississippi State, Mississippi. The university is a founding member of the Southeastern Conference and competes in NCAA D ...
in a best-of-three series to win the NCAA National Championship, the university's first in baseball and the 109th national title in all sports. The 64 participating
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teams were selected from an eligible pool of 298
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programs. Thirty teams were awarded an automatic bid as champions of their individual conferences. Additionally, 34 non-automatic qualifying teams were awarded at-large berths by the NCAA Division I Baseball Committee. The 64 teams were divided into sixteen regionals consisting of four teams each. All four teams, in each regional, competed in a double-elimination tournament. Regional champions then faced one another in a best-of-three games series in their individual Super Regional based upon a predetermined bracketed system. This format determined the final eight participants to advance to the College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska. Fourteen of the sixteen original Regional hosts advanced to their respective Super Regional; the exceptions were the #8 national seed
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Ducks and the
Virginia Tech The Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, commonly referred to as Virginia Tech (VT), is a Public university, public Land-grant college, land-grant research university with its main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia, United States ...
Hokies. For the first time in television history,
ESPN ESPN (an initialism of their original name, which was the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is an American international basic cable sports channel owned by the Walt Disney Company (80% and operational control) and Hearst Commu ...
provided live cut-ins and highlights from all 16 Regionals with the new Bases Loaded platform — similar to
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and Buzzer Beater for college football and basketball.


Bids


Automatic bids


By conference


National seeds

These eight teams automatically host a Super Regional if they advance to that round. Oregon was the only team not to advance to the Super Regional.
Bold indicates CWS participant. # North Carolina # Vanderbilt # Oregon State # LSU # Cal State Fullerton # Virginia # Florida State # Oregon


Regionals and Super Regionals

Bold indicates winner. * indicates extra innings.


Chapel Hill Super Regional


Raleigh Super Regional


Fullerton Super Regional


Baton Rouge Super Regional


Corvallis Super Regional


Charlottesville Super Regional


Tallahassee Super Regional


Nashville Super Regional


College World Series

The College World Series began on June 15, 2013, and was held at
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.


Participants


Bracket

''Seeds listed below indicate national seeds only.'' ''All times
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Championship Series


Game 1


Game 2


All-Tournament Team

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


Final standings

''Seeds listed below indicate national seeds only''


Record by conference

The columns RF, SR, WS, NS, CS, and NC respectively stand for the Regional Finals, Super Regionals, College World Series, National Semifinals, Championship Series, and National Champion.


Tournament notes


Round 1

*Virginia Tech was the only #1 seed to be upset by a #4 seed (Connecticut) in its opening game. *Cal Poly and William & Mary recorded their first-ever NCAA tournament wins. * #3 seeds went 9–7 against #2 seeds in their opening games.


Round 2

*After 2 rounds, 14 of the 16 #1 seeds were 2–0 (Virginia Tech & Oregon were 1–1 and knocked into the losers bracket). *Three #4 seeds won elimination games on the 2nd day of the tournament: Central Arkansas, Columbia and Valparaiso.


Regional Finals

*Virginia Tech & Oregon were the only #1 seeds not advancing to the Super Regionals. *Central Arkansas was the only #4 seed to reach a regional final (Starkville). *All 4 teams which came from the losers' bracket and won to force an extra game, lost the 2nd game and failed to advance.


Super Regionals

*Game 2 between NC State and Rice went 17 innings, making it the fourth longest game in NCAA tournament history and the longest ever in the Super Regional round, which dates to 1999.


College World Series

*
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is the first Big Ten team to participate in the College World Series since 1984 (
Michigan Michigan ( ) is a peninsular U.S. state, state in the Great Lakes region, Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest, Upper Midwestern United States. It shares water and land boundaries with Minnesota to the northwest, Wisconsin to the west, ...
). *With Mississippi State's win over Oregon State in the semifinals, it marks the sixth consecutive College World Series in which the Southeastern Conference has fielded a conference member in the finals. *No top 8 national seed reached the CWS Finals for the first time since
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has made two appearances in the Finals and a
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team has played in the Championship series three times. * The Finals featured an SEC team against a Pac-10/12 team for the third time in four years.
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defeated UCLA in
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defeated South Carolina in
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. Before 2010, teams from those conferences had met in the finals just once (
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of UCLA set a new NCAA single-season record with his 24th save on June 24, 2013. and made his 51st appearance of the season, becoming the first pitcher in NCAA history to record 50 or more appearances in multiple seasons. * UCLA won its first NCAA baseball Championship, becoming the third team to win the Championship with a perfect 10–0 record, the first team to allow no more than one run in each game of the series, and the fourth straight team to sweep the CWS Finals. * All-Tournament Team: Brian Holberton (C), NC; Wes Rea (1B), MSU.; Brett Pirtle (2B), MSU; Colin Moran (3B) NC; Pat Valaika (SS), UCLA; Michael Conforto (OF), OSU; Eric Filia (OF), UCLA; Hunter Renfroe (OF), MSU; Trey Porter (DH), MSU; Adam Plutko (P), UCLA (also the Most Outstanding Player); Nick Vander Tuig (P), UCLA. * With the 8–0 shutout loss in game two of the finals, Mississippi State becomes the first team in twenty years to be held scoreless in the CWS finals, (Wichita State lost 8–0 to LSU in 1993), and only the sixth team in CWS history to be held scoreless in the finals. * UCLA tied the Santa Clara CWS record for number of sacrifice bunts at 12, set in 1962. * New attendance record was set on June 25 at 27,127.


Media coverage


Radio

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/NCAA Radio Network, provided nationwide radio coverage of the College World Series, which was streamed online at dialglobalsports.com and broadcast across radio stations throughout the US.
Kevin Kugler Kevin Kugler (Born August 1972) is an American sportscaster who works in both radio and television. Kugler is currently employed on television by Fox Sports for NFL, college basketball (including on Big Ten Network), MLB and UFL games. On radio, ...
and
John Bishop John Bishop (born 30 November 1966) is an English comedian, presenter, actor and former semi pro footballer. His first television appearance was in 2007 on the RTÉ topical-comedy show '' The Panel'', where he was a regular panelist until 20 ...
called all games leading up to the Championship Series. The championship series was called by Kugler and Scott Graham with Ted Emrich acting as field reporter for the first time.


Television

For the first time ever ESPN carried every game from the Regionals, Super Regionals, and College World Series across the ESPN Networks (
ESPN ESPN (an initialism of their original name, which was the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is an American international basic cable sports channel owned by the Walt Disney Company (80% and operational control) and Hearst Commu ...
,
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,
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, and
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). ESPN also provided Bases Loaded coverage for the Regionals. Bases Loaded was hosted by Dari Nowkhah and
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with Kyle Peterson on hand as analysts. Bases Loaded aired the entire time on ESPN3 with select coverage on ESPN2 and ESPNU.


Broadcast assignments

''Regionals'' *
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&
Ben McDonald Larry Benard "Ben" McDonald (born November 24, 1967) is an American former Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher. The first overall pick in the 1989 MLB Draft, he played for the Baltimore Orioles and Milwaukee Brewers from 1989 through 1997. Bas ...
- Nashville, Tennessee *
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&
Danny Graves Daniel Peter Graves (born August 7, 1973) is a Vietnamese-born American former professional baseball pitcher who played in Major League Baseball (MLB). Born to a Vietnamese mother and an American serviceman father, he is the only Vietnam-born p ...
- Manhattan, Kansas * Adam Amin & Rod Delmonico - Tallahassee, Florida * Dave Neal & Chris Burke - Columbia, South Carolina * Clay Matvick &
Paul Lo Duca Paul Anthony Lo Duca (born April 12, 1972) is an American former professional baseball player and television personality. He played in Major League Baseball as a catcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers (–), Florida Marlins (2004–, ), New York Met ...
- Fullerton, California * Tom Hart & Mike Rooney - Corvallis, Oregon *
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& Jay Walker - Starkville, Mississippi * Mike Morgan & Danny Kanell - Louisville, Kentucky ''Super Regionals'' * Dari Nowkhah, Danny Graves, & Danny Kanell - Chapel Hill, North Carolina *Tom Hart & Paul Lo Duca - Raleigh, NC *
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, Kyle Peterson, &
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- Baton Rouge, Louisiana *Carter Blackburn,
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, &
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- Fullerton, California ''College World Series'' *
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or Dave O'Brien, Kyle Peterson, & Kaylee Hartung: Afternoons *Mike Patrick,
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, & Jessica Mendoza: Evenings ''Regionals'' * Jones Angell & John Manual - Chapel Hill, North Carolina * Doug Sherman & Leland Maddox - Baton Rouge, Louisiana * Dave Weekley & John Gregory - Charlottesville, Virginia * Brett Dolan &
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- Eugene, Oregon * Andrew Sanders & Sean McNally - Raleigh, North Carolina * Trey Bender &
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- Los Angeles, Californian * Mark Neely & Nick Belmonte - Blacksburg, Virginia * Jim Barbar & Randy Ensor - Bloomington, Indiana ''Super Regionals'' *Mike Morgan &
Doug Glanville Douglas Metunwa Glanville (born August 25, 1970) is an American former professional baseball outfielder who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago Cubs, and Texas Rangers. He is also a broadcast color analys ...
- Tallahassee, Florida *Clay Matvick & Ben McDonald - Charlottesville, Virginia *Dave Neal & Chris Burke - Nashville, Tennessee *Joe Davis,
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, & Jay Walker - Corvallis, Oregon ''College World Series Championship'' *Mike Patrick, Orel Hershiser, Kyle Peterson, Jessica Mendoza, & Kaylee Hartung


See also

* 2013 NCAA Division II baseball tournament * 2013 NCAA Division III baseball tournament * 2013 NAIA World Series


References

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