The 2017 NCAA Division I baseball season, play of

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(NCAA) at the Division I level, began in February 2017. The season progressed through the regular season, many conference tournaments and championship series, and concluded with the 2017 NCAA Division I baseball tournament and 2017 College World Series. The College World Series, consisted of the eight remaining teams in the NCAA tournament and held annually in

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, at TD Ameritrade Park Omaha, ended June 27, 2017.

Realignment

* Coastal Carolina left the

Big South Conference The Big South Conference is a collegiate athletic conference affiliated with the NCAA's Division I. Originally a non-football conference, the Big South began sponsoring football in 2002 as part of the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS), ...

for the

Sun Belt Conference The Sun Belt Conference (SBC) is a collegiate List of NCAA conferences, athletic conference that has been affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association, NCAA's NCAA Division I, Division I since 1976. Originally a non-football confe ...

. The move officially took effect hours after Coastal won the College World Series. In doing so, the Sun Belt Conference split into East and West divisions for this season. *

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, a member of the

Western Athletic Conference The Western Athletic Conference (WAC) is an NCAA Division I conference. The WAC covers a broad expanse of the Western United States with member institutions located in Arizona, California, Texas, Utah and Washington (state), Washington. Due to ...

in baseball (as well as swimming and diving for both sexes), dropped baseball. The 2017 season was also the last for one school's baseball program, and the last for two other programs in their then-current conferences. In addition, the last remaining Division I independent left for its full-time home of Division II. * Buffalo dropped baseball at the end of the season. * NYIT, which had been left independent after the 2013 collapse of the Great West Conference, dropped its baseball program to Division II, joining the school's full-time home of the

East Coast Conference The East Coast Conference (ECC) is a college athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division II level. Member institutions are located primarily in the state of New York, with a single ...

. * Valparaiso left its home of the previous 10 seasons, the

Horizon League The Horizon League is a collegiate List of NCAA conferences, athletic conference in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) NCAA Division I, Division I. Headquartered in Indianapolis, the league's eleven member schools are located in ...

, for the

Missouri Valley Conference The Missouri Valley Conference (also called MVC or simply "The Valley") is the fourth-oldest collegiate List of NCAA conferences, athletic conference in the United States. The conference's members are primarily located in the Midwestern Unite ...

(MVC). *

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left the MVC, its conference home since 1945, to become a full but non-football member of the

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Season outlook

Conference standings

Conference winners and tournaments

Of the 31 Division I athletic conferences that sponsor baseball, 29 end their

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or a

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. The teams in each conference that win their regular season title are given the number one seed in each tournament. Two conferences, the Big West and Pac-12, do not hold a conference tournament. The winners of these tournaments, plus the Big West and Pac-12 regular-season champions, receive automatic invitations to the 2017 NCAA Division I baseball tournament. , , Chris Hayes
(Jacksonville) , , 2017 Atlantic Sun Conference baseball tournament , ,

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Big 12 Conference The Big 12 Conference is a collegiate List of NCAA conferences, athletic conference in the United States. It consists of 16 full-member universities (3 private universities and 13 public universities) in the states of Arizona, Colorado, Florida ...

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Texas Tech , , Hunter Hargrove
(Texas Tech) &
Evan Skoug
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() , , 2017 Big 12 Conference baseball tournament , , Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark • Oklahoma City, OK , , , - ,

Big East Conference The Big East Conference (stylized as BIG EAST) is a collegiate List of NCAA conferences, athletic conference that competes in National Collegiate Athletic Association, NCAA NCAA Division I, Division I in 10 men's sports and 12 women's sports. H ...

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() , , Ed Blankmeyer
() , , 2017 Big East Conference baseball tournament , , TD Ameritrade Park • Omaha, NE , , Xavier , - ,

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() , , Tom Riginos
(Winthrop) , , 2017 Big South Conference baseball tournament , , Lexington County Baseball Stadium • Lexington, SC , , , - ,

Big Ten Conference The Big Ten Conference (stylized B1G, formerly the Western Conference and the Big Nine Conference, among others) is a collegiate List of NCAA conferences, athletic conference in the United States. Founded as the Intercollegiate Conference of Fa ...

, ,

Nebraska Nebraska ( ) is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders South Dakota to the north; Iowa to the east and Missouri to the southeast, both across the Missouri River; Ka ...

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(Nebraska) , , 2017 Big Ten Conference baseball tournament , , Bart Kaufman Field •

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Big West Conference The Big West Conference (BWC) is an American collegiate List of NCAA conferences, athletic conference whose member institutions participate in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's NCAA Division I, Division I. The conference was origina ...

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() , , Troy Buckley
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Colonial Athletic Association The Coastal Athletic Association (CAA), formerly the ECAC South Conference and the Colonial Athletic Association, is a collegiate List of NCAA conferences, athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association, NCAA' ...

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() , , Mike Glavine
(Northeastern) , , 2017 Colonial Athletic Association baseball tournament , , Brooks Field • Wilmington, NC , , , - ,

Conference USA Conference USA (CUSA) is a collegiate athletic conference of member institutions in the Southern and Western United States. The conference participates in the NCAA's Division I in all sports. CUSA's offices are located in Dallas, Texas. Mem ...

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(Southern Miss) , , Scott Berry
(Southern Miss) , , 2017 Conference USA baseball tournament , , MGM Park • Biloxi, MS , , , - ,

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(UIC) , , Mike Dee
(UIC) , , 2017 Horizon League baseball tournament , , Les Miller Field at Curtis Granderson Stadium •

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Ivy League The Ivy League is an American collegiate List of NCAA conferences, athletic conference of eight Private university, private Research university, research universities in the Northeastern United States. It participates in the National Collegia ...

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Rolfe - , , Randell Kanamaru
(Columbia) , , John Stuper
(Yale) , , 2017 Ivy League Baseball Championship Series , , ''Campus Sites'' , , Yale , - ,

Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference The Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC, ) is a collegiate List of NCAA conferences, athletic conference affiliated with NCAA Division I. Its current 13 full members are located in five Northeastern states: Connecticut, Maryland, Massachuse ...

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() , , Pat Carey
() , , 2017 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference baseball tournament , , Sal Maglie Stadium • Niagara Falls, NY , , , - ,

Mid-American Conference The Mid-American Conference (MAC) is a collegiate List of NCAA conferences, athletic conference with a membership base in the Great Lakes region (North America), Great Lakes region that stretches from Western New York to Illinois. Its members co ...

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West – , , Tanner Allison
( Western Michigan) , , Jeff Duncan
(Kent State) , , 2017 Mid-American Conference baseball tournament , , Sprenger Stadium • Avon, OH , ,

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Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference The Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC ) is a List of NCAA conferences, collegiate athletic conference whose full members are historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern and the Mid-A ...

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Southern - , , Alex Mauricio
(Norfolk State) , , Ben Hall
() , , 2017 Mid–Eastern Athletic Conference baseball tournament , , Perdue Stadium • Salisbury, MD , , Bethune–Cookman , - ,

, , , , Jake Burger
(Missouri State) , , Keith Guttin
(Missouri State) , , 2017 Missouri Valley Conference baseball tournament , , Hammons Field • Springfield, MO , , , - ,

Mountain West Conference The Mountain West Conference (MW) is a collegiate athletic conference in the Western United States, participating in NCAA Division I. Its football teams compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS). The MW officially began operations on Ja ...

, , , , Danny Sheehan
() &
Jack Zoellner
(New Mexico) , , Ray Birmingham
(New Mexico) , , 2017 Mountain West Conference baseball tournament , , Santa Ana Star Field • Albuquerque, NM , , San Diego State , - ,

Northeast Conference The Northeast Conference (NEC) is a collegiate athletic conference whose schools are members of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Teams in the NEC compete in Division I for all sports; football competes in the Division I Foo ...

, , , , Mickey Gasper
(Bryant) , , Charlie Hickey
() , , 2017 Northeast Conference baseball tournament , , Dodd Stadium • Norwich, CT , , Central Connecticut , - ,

Ohio Valley Conference The Ohio Valley Conference (OVC) is a collegiate athletic conference which operates in the Midwestern and Southeastern United States. It participates in Division I of the NCAA; the conference's football programs compete in partnership with ...

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() &
Niko Hulsizer
() , , Matt Bragga
(Tennessee Tech) , , 2017 Ohio Valley Conference baseball tournament , , Choccolocco Park • Oxford, AL , , Tennessee Tech , - ,

Pac-12 Conference The Pac-12 Conference is a collegiate List of NCAA conferences, athletic conference in the Western United States. It participates at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) NCAA Division I, Division I level for all sports, and its Co ...

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(Oregon State) , , Pat Casey
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(Navy) , , Jim Foster
() , , 2017 Patriot League baseball tournament , , ''Campus Sites'' , , Holy Cross , - ,

Southeastern Conference The Southeastern Conference (SEC) is a collegiate List of NCAA conferences, athletic conference whose member institutions are located primarily in the South Central United States, South Central and Southeastern United States. Its 16 members in ...

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West –

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Southern Conference The Southern Conference (SoCon) is a collegiate List of NCAA conferences, athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) NCAA Division I, Division I. Southern Conference College football, football teams c ...

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() , , Craig Gibson
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Southland Conference The Southland Conference (SLC) is a collegiate athletic conference which operates in the South Central United States (specifically Texas and Louisiana). It participates in the NCAA's Division I for all sports; for football, it participates in ...

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() , , Justin Hill
(McNeese State) , , 2017 Southland Conference baseball tournament , , Constellation Field • Sugar Land, TX , , , - ,

Southwestern Athletic Conference The Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) is a collegiate List of NCAA conferences, athletic conference headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, which is made up of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the Southern United St ...

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West – , , Marshawn Taylor
(Grambling State) , , James Cooper
(Grambling State) , , 2017 Southwestern Athletic Conference baseball tournament , , Wesley Barrow Stadium •

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(Oral Roberts) , , Ryan Folmar
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West – UT Arlington , , Billy Cooke
(Coastal Carolina) , , Darin Thomas
(UT Arlington) , , 2017 Sun Belt Conference baseball tournament , , J. I. Clements Stadium • Statesboro, GA , , South Alabama , - ,

West Coast Conference The West Coast Conference (WCC) — known as the California Basketball Association from 1952 to 1956 and then as the West Coast Athletic Conference until 1989 — is a collegiate athletic conference affiliated with NCAA Division I consisting o ...

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BYU
, , Riley Adams
() , , Mark Machtolf
(Gonzaga) , , 2017 West Coast Conference baseball tournament , , Banner Island Ballpark • Stockton, CA , , BYU , - ,

, , , , Garrison Schwartz
(Grand Canyon) , , Andy Stankiewicz
(Grand Canyon) , , 2017 Western Athletic Conference baseball tournament , , Hohokam Stadium • Mesa, AZ , ,

College World Series

The 2017 College World Series began on June 17 in

Award winners

Consensus All-American teams

Major player of the year awards

* Dick Howser Trophy: Brendan McKay, 1B/P,

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* ''Baseball America'': Brendan McKay, 1B/P, Louisville * ''Collegiate Baseball''/

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, 1B,

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: Brendan McKay, 1B/P, Louisville * Golden Spikes Award: Brendan McKay, 1B/P, Louisville

Major freshman of the year awards

* ''Baseball America'' Freshman Of The Year: Matt Wallner, OF/P, Southern Miss * ''Collegiate Baseball'' Freshman Players of the Year: Kevin Milam, DH/P, Saint Mary's; Sean Mooney, P, St. John's; Braden Shewmake, 2B,

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; Kenyon Yovan, P,

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Major coach of the year awards

: Kevin O'Sullivan,

* ''Baseball America'':

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, Louisville * ''Collegiate Baseball'' Coach of the Year: Kevin O'Sullivan, Florida * National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) National Coach of the Year: Pat Casey, Oregon State *ABCA/

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Assistant Coach of the Year:

Other major awards

* Senior CLASS Award (baseball) (outstanding Senior of the Year in baseball): Anthony Critelli, Holy Cross * Johnny Bench Award (Catcher of the Year): * Brooks Wallace Award (Shortstop of the Year): Logan Warmoth,

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* John Olerud Award (best two-way player): Brendan McKay, Louisville *

Gold Glove:

Coaching changes

This table lists programs that changed head coaches at any point from the first day of the 2017 season until the day before the first day of the 2018 season.

Attendances

2016 teams with an average home attendance of at least 10,000:

References

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