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2007 NCAA Division I baseball tournament

Field	Value
Year	2007
Division	Division I
ImageSize	150px
Teams	64
CollegeWorldSeriesBallpark	Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium
City	Omaha, NE
Champions	[Oregon State](2007-oregon-state-beavers-baseball-team)
TitleCount	2nd
Runner-Up	North Carolina
CWSCount	6th
Coach	Pat Casey
CoachCount	2nd
MOP	Jorge Reyes
MOPTeam	[Oregon State](2007-oregon-state-beavers-baseball-team)
tournament_link	NCAA Division I Baseball Championship

| Runner-Up=North Carolina

The 2007 NCAA Division I baseball tournament was held from June 1 to 24, . Sixty-four NCAA Division I college baseball teams advanced to the post season tournament after having played through a regular season, and for some, a conference tournament.

The 2007 tournament culminated with 8 teams advancing to the College World Series at historic Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha, Nebraska, on June 15. Unseeded Oregon State repeated as national champions, winning all five of its games in the 2007 CWS.

Oregon State went undefeated through the College World Series, posting a 5–0 record. The Beavers, led by head coach Pat Casey, won all three games in their four-team bracket and then, for the second straight season, defeated North Carolina in the best-of-three championship series— this time in two games. Oregon State became the fifth team to win consecutive NCAA titles (last done by LSU in 1996-97), and were the first team to win four games in a CWS by six or more runs. As of 2019, 2007 Oregon State remains the only team to have ever won at least four games by six or more runs in the same College World Series. Their opener against Cal State Fullerton was a tight 3–2 victory, but OSU's last four games in the CWS were not close, impressive for a team seeded in the lower half of the 64-team tournament.

The Beavers also became the first team to win the CWS after having posted a losing conference record. Oregon State was a disappointing 10–14 (.417) in the Pac-10, placing sixth among the nine baseball-playing schools (Oregon dropped baseball in 1981, but revived it in 2009.)

However, the Beavers' non-conference record during the regular season was an impressive 28–3 (.903), and as defending NCAA champions, just enough to gain a berth in the 64-team tournament. They were placed as a No. 3 seed in one of the 16 four-team regionals, in Charlottesville, Virginia. Oregon State responded by going 11–1 (.917) in the post season. Oregon State won their final 10 games to finish at 49–18 (.731) overall. The Beavers trailed in only one inning of 2007 CWS: the first inning of the final game. Their only loss in the post season came during the second game of regionals, where they fell in 13 innings to host Virginia.

Oregon State freshman pitcher Jorge Reyes (of Warden, Washington) was named the Most Outstanding Player of the 2007 CWS. Reyes was 2–0 as a starter, defeating Cal State Fullerton in the opener and North Carolina in the first game of the finals.

Two elite programs from Louisiana, LSU and Tulane, both failed to qualify for the field of 64, marking the first time since 1984 both schools stayed home. LSU reached the College World Series 13 times between 1986 and 2004, winning five national championships (1991, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000), while Tulane made trips to the CWS in 2001 and 2005.

Bids

Automatic bids

Conference champions from 30 Division I conferences earned automatic bids to regionals. The remaining 34 spots were awarded to schools as at-large invitees.

Conference	School	Record	Berth type
America East		29–27	Tournament champion
ACC	[North Carolina](2007-north-carolina-tar-heels-baseball-team)	48–12	Tournament champion
Atlantic Sun		34–26	Tournament champion
A-10		47–10	Tournament champion
Big East		38–19	Tournament champion
Big South		48–11	Tournament champion
Big Ten		37–22	Tournament champion
Big 12		44–16	Tournament champion
Big West		37–19	Regular-season champion
CAA	[VCU](2007-vcu-rams-baseball-team)	37–21	Tournament champion
Conference USA		49–12	Tournament champion
Horizon League		34–19	Tournament champion
Ivy League		27–19	Championship series winner
MAAC		34–17	Tournament champion
MAC		33–24	Tournament champion
Mid-Con		40–15	Tournament champion
MEAC		33–25	Tournament champion
Missouri Valley		44–14	Tournament champion
MWC		46–12	Tournament champion
NEC		36–22	Tournament champion
OVC		39–20	Tournament champion
Pac-10	[Arizona State](2007-arizona-state-sun-devils-baseball-team)	43–13	Regular-season champion
Patriot League		33–18	Tournament champion
SEC		46–10	Tournament champion
SoCon		30–31	Tournament champion
Southland		38–22	Tournament champion
SWAC		34–23	Tournament champion
Sun Belt		37–24	Tournament champion
WCC		43–16	Championship series winner
WAC		36–27	Tournament champion

Bids by conference

Conference	Total	Schools
Atlantic Coast	7	[Clemson](2007-clemson-tigers-baseball-team), , , [North Carolina](2007-north-carolina-tar-heels-baseball-team), , ,
Big 12	6	, [Missouri](2007-missouri-tigers-baseball-team), , , ,
Southeastern	5	, , [Mississippi State](2007-mississippi-state-bulldogs-baseball-team), ,
Big West	4	, , [Cal State Fullerton](2007-cal-state-fullerton-titans-baseball-team),
Conference USA	4	, , ,
Pacific-10	4	[Arizona](2007-arizona-wildcats-baseball-team), [Arizona State](2007-arizona-state-sun-devils-baseball-team), [Oregon State](2007-oregon-state-beavers-baseball-team),
Big East	3	, ,
Big Ten	3	, ,
Sun Belt	3	[Louisiana–Lafayette](2007-louisiana-lafayette-ragin-cajuns-baseball-team), ,
Atlantic Sun	2	,
Missouri Valley	2	,
Southern	2	,
WCC	2	,
Atlantic 10	1
America East	1
Big South	1
Colonial	1	[VCU](2007-vcu-rams-baseball-team)
Horizon	1
Ivy	1
Metro Atlantic	1
Mid-American	1
Mid-Con	1
Mid-Eastern	1
Mountain West	1
Northeast	1
Ohio Valley	1
Patriot	1
Southland	1
Southwestern	1
Western Athletic	1

National seeds

Bold indicates CWS participant.

North Carolina
Arizona State

Regionals and super regionals

Schedule

Regional rounds were held Friday, June 1, through Monday, June 4. Each regional followed a similar format, with two games played on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, and one on Monday if needed (many regionals in the southern U.S. had their schedules adversely affected by rain)

Day	Game	Teams
Fri. 6/1/07	1	2/3 or 1/4 (host choice)
2	2/3 or 1/4 (host choice)
Sat. 6/2/07	3	Loser Games 1 & 2
4	Winner Games 1 & 2
Sun. 6/3/07	5	Winner Game 3 vs Loser Game 4
6	Winner Games 4 & 5
Mon. 6/4/07	7	if needed, only if winner of game 5 wins game 6

Best-of-three super regionals were held Friday, June 8 through Monday, June 11. Four series were played Friday-Sunday and four series were played Saturday-Monday.

Bold indicates winner. * indicates extra innings.

Corvallis Super Regional

Houston Super Regional

Chapel Hill Super Regional

Wichita Super Regional

Tempe Super Regional

Starkville Super Regional

Louisville Super Regional

Fullerton Super Regional

Tournament notes

Albany, Brown, and Wofford were making their first NCAA tournament appearance.
Oregon State is one of only six teams (South Carolina: 2010–2011, LSU: 1996–1997, Stanford: 1987–1988, Southern California: 1970–1974, Texas: 1949–1950) to win consecutive CWS titles.
Oregon State is also the first team to repeat as champion since the CWS switched to the current 3-game championship series.
Oregon State is the first champion to make it back to the CWS the year after they won title since Texas appeared in the 2003 after winning it in 2002
The 2007 Oregon State Beavers are the first CWS champions with a conference record of less than .500 (10–14)
Louisville is the second school whose athletic teams have played in a Final Four, BCS bowl game, and a College World Series within the last three years. Florida is the other school.
2007 marks the 15th year in a row that the SEC has had at least one team make it to Omaha.
2007 marks the second time the College World Series champions and runners-up are the same two consecutive years.

CWS records tied or broken

Oregon State became the first team to win four games by six or more runs in the CWS. As of 2021, 2007 Oregon State remains the final team to win four games by six or more runs in the CWS.
Oregon State became the first team to win the CWS while having a losing record in regular season conference play.
North Carolina's Rob Wooten pitched in a record 6 games in a single CWS.
North Carolina tied a CWS record by turning five double plays in game one of the final series against Oregon State.
North Carolina used a CWS record eight pitchers in its Game 6 loss to Rice.
Game 7 between UC-Irvine and Cal State-Fullerton went 13 innings and lasted 5 hours and 40 minutes. It was the longest game in terms of time in College World Series history. The game also had the most hit-by-pitches (eight) and reportedly used and lost 96 balls, the most ever. The previous record was 84 balls lost.
Louisville's Logan Johnson tied the CWS record with four home runs.
By beating Arizona State, UC-Irvine became the first team in CWS history to win two extra-inning games back to back.
A CWS record number of batters were hit by pitches during the series.

College World Series

Participants

School	Conference	Record (conference)	Head coach	CWS appearances
Not including this year
[Arizona State](2007-arizona-state-sun-devils-baseball-team)	Pac-10	48–13 (19–5)	Pat Murphy	19
(last: [2005](2005-college-world-series))	1st
([1965](1965-college-world-series), [1967](1967-college-world-series), [1969](1969-college-world-series), [1977](1977-college-world-series), [1981](1981-college-world-series))	58–32
[Cal State Fullerton](2007-cal-state-fullerton-titans-baseball-team)	Big West	38–23 (10–11)	George Horton	14
(last: [2006](2006-college-world-series))	1st
([1979](1979-college-world-series), [1984](1984-college-world-series), [1995](1995-college-world-series), [2004](2004-college-world-series))	34–23
	Big East	46–22 (19–8)	Dan McDonnell	0
(last: none)	none	0–0
[Mississippi State](2007-mississippi-state-bulldogs-baseball-team)	SEC	38–20 (15–13)	Ron Polk	7
(last: [1998](1998-college-world-series))	3rd
([1985](1985-college-world-series))	7–14
[North Carolina](2007-north-carolina-tar-heels-baseball-team)	ACC	53–13 (21–9)	Mike Fox	5
(last: [2006](2006-college-world-series))	2nd
([2006](2006-college-world-series))	6–10
[Oregon State](2007-oregon-state-beavers-baseball-team)	Pac-10	44–18 (10–14)	Pat Casey	3
(last: [2006](2006-college-world-series))	1st
([2006](2006-college-world-series))	6–6
	C-USA	54–12 (22–2)	Wayne Graham	5
(last: [2006](2006-college-world-series))	1st
([2003](2003-college-world-series))	8–9
	Big West	45–15–1 (15–6)	Dave Serrano	0
(last: none)	none	0–0

Bracket

Championship series

Saturday 6/23

Game 14: 6:00 pm

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Sunday 6/24

Game 15: 6:00 pm

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All-Tournament Team

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

Position	Player	School
P	Jorge Reyes (MOP)	Oregon State Beavers	border=0}}	Oregon State
Andrew Carignan	North Carolina Tar Heels	border=0}}
C	Mitch Canham	Oregon State Beavers	border=0}}	Oregon State
1B	Dustin Ackley	North Carolina Tar Heels	border=0}}
2B	Joey Wong	Oregon State Beavers	border=0}}	Oregon State
3B	Diego Seastrunk	Rice Owls	border=0}}	Rice
SS	Darwin Barney	Oregon State Beavers	border=0}}	Oregon State
OF	Bryan Petersen	UC Irvine Anteaters	border=0}}	UC Irvine
Tim Fedroff	North Carolina Tar Heels	border=0}}
Scott Santschi	Oregon State Beavers	border=0}}	Oregon State
DH	Mike Lissman	Oregon State Beavers	border=0}}	Oregon State

Tournament performance by conference

Conference	Tournament record	Percentage	Schools to super regionals	Schools to CWS
Pacific-10	21–6	0.778	Arizona St, Oregon St, UCLA	Arizona St, Oregon St
Big West	14–7	0.667	UC Irvine, Cal State Fullerton	UC Irvine, Cal State Fullerton
SEC	17–10	0.630	Ole Miss, Mississippi St, South Carolina	Mississippi St
Big East	10–8	0.556	Louisville	Louisville
ACC	19–16	0.543	Clemson, North Carolina	North Carolina
Big 12	15–13	0.536	Oklahoma St, Texas A&M
Conference USA	9–8	0.529	Rice	Rice
Missouri Valley	5–5	0.500	Wichita State
Atlantic 10	2–2	0.500
Big South	2–2	0.500
Mountain West	2–2	0.500
Southland	2–2	0.500
Western Athletic	2–2	0.500
Big 10	5–7	0.417	Michigan
Sun Belt	3–6	0.333
Southern	2–4	0.333
Horizon	1–2	0.333
Ohio Valley	1–2	0.333
Atlantic Sun	1–4	0.200
America East	0–2	0.000
Colonial	0–2	0.000
Ivy	0–2	0.000
Metro Atlantic	0–2	0.000
Mid-American	0–2	0.000
Mid-Con	0–2	0.000
Mid-Eastern	0–2	0.000
Northeast	0–2	0.000
Patriot	0–2	0.000
Southwestern Athletic	0–2	0.000
WCC	0–4	0.000

References

"The Seattle Times | Local news, sports, business, politics, entertainment, travel, restaurants and opinion for Seattle and the Pacific Northwest".
"NCAA Men's College World Series Records 1947-2008". NCAA.
Borzi, Pat. (June 24, 2007). "Oregon State One Win From a Second Title". New York Times.
(June 19, 2007). "Student eliminates coaching mentor in Irvine's victory". ESPNU.
(June 18, 2007). "Irvine uses a little luck, a lot of baseballs to knock out Cal State Fullerton". ESPNU.
(June 21, 2007). "COLLEGE WORLD SERIES: Getting beaned has fast become big hit". Salt Lake Tribune.
(June 25, 2007). "OSU in first and last Division I games of season". OregonLive.com.

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