1949 NCAA baseball season

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

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	2^12
							Southern California	1

Award winners

All-America team

References

1. W.C. Madden & Patrick J. Stewart (2004). The College World Series:A Baseball History, 1947-2003. McFarland & Co. pp. 14–16. Retrieved March 24, 2013.
2. "College Baseball Conference Standings -- 1949". boydsworld.com. Retrieved March 24, 2013.
3. "Texas Baseball 2010 Media Guide" (PDF). University of Texas at Austin. p. 172. Retrieved March 28, 2013.