1949 NCAA baseball season

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1949 NCAA baseball season
Tournament
Duration June 15–25, 1949
College World Series
Champions Texas
Runners-up Wake Forest
MOP Tom Hamilton (Texas)
Seasons

← 1948

1950 →

The 1949 NCAA baseball season, play of college baseball in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) began in the spring of 1949. The season progressed through the regular season and concluded with the 1949 NCAA Baseball Tournament and 1949 College World Series. The College World Series, held for the third time in 1949, consisted of four remaining teams in the NCAA Tournament and was held in Wichita, Kansas at Wichita Municipal Stadium as a double-elimination tournament. Texas claimed the championship by sweeping the four game tournament.[1]

Conference winners

This is a partial list of conference champions from the 1949 season. Each of the eight geographical districts chose, by various methods, the team that would represent them in the NCAA Tournament. Conference champions had to be chosen, unless all conference champions declined the bid.[1]

Conference Regular Season Winner Conference Tournament Tournament City Tournament Winner
Big Seven Kansas
No Conference Tournament
CIBA Southern California
No Conference Tournament
EIBL Princeton
No Conference Tournament
Mid-American Conference Western Michigan
No Conference Tournament
Missouri Valley Conference Oklahoma A&M 1949 Missouri Valley Conference Baseball Tournament Oklahoma A&M
Pacific Coast Conference North Washington State
No Conference Tournament
Southeastern Conference Mississippi State
No Conference Tournament
Southern Conference Wake Forest
No Conference Tournament
Southwest Conference Texas
No Conference Tournament

Conference standings

The following is an incomplete list of conference standings:

1949 Southwest Conference baseball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   PCT     W   L   PCT
Texas †y 12 – 3   .800     23 – 7   .767
Texas A&M 10 – 4   .714     17 – 8   .680
Baylor 9 – 6   .600     17 – 12   .586
SMU 6 – 9   .400     8 – 12   .400
TCU 4 – 11   .267     6 – 14   .300
Rice 3 – 11   .214     4 – 14   .222
† – Conference champion
y – Invited to the NCAA Tournament
As of June 30, 1949[2][3]; Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

NCAA Tournament

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Main article: 1949 NCAA Baseball Tournament

The 1949 season marked the third NCAA Baseball Tournament, which consisted of eight teams divided into four regions. Each region held a three game series to determine the four teams that advance to the College World Series, which was held in Wichita, Kansas. The four teams played a double-elimination format, with Texas sweeping the tournament and defeating Wake Forest in the final.

  First Round Semi-Finals Finals
                             
 Wake Forest 2  
 Southern California 1  
   Wake Forest 1  
   Texas 8  
 Texas 7
 St. John's 1  
   Texas 10 —
   Wake Forest 3 —
 Southern California 12  
 St. John's 4  
   Wake Forest 212
   Southern California 1  

Award winners

All-America team

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Main article: 1949 College Baseball All-America Team

References

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