1974 NCAA Division I baseball season

1974 NCAA Division I baseball season
Number of teams	221
NCAA Tournament
College World Series
Champions	Southern California
Runners-up	Miami (FL)
MOP	Dave Winfield (Minnesota)
Seasons
← 1973	1975 →

The 1974 NCAA Division I baseball season, play of college baseball in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) began in the spring of 1974. The season progressed through the regular season and concluded with the 1974 College World Series. The College World Series, held for the twenty eighth time in 1974, consisted of one team from each of eight geographical districts and was held in Omaha, Nebraska at Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium as a double-elimination tournament. Southern California claimed the championship for the fifth year in a row, the first team to claim five consecutive titles.^[1]

Conference winners

This is a partial list of conference champions from the 1974 season. Each of the eight geographical districts chose, by various methods, the team that would represent them in the NCAA Tournament. 15 teams earned automatic bids by winning their conference championship while 13 teams earned at-large selections.^[1]^[2]

Conference	Regular Season Winner	Conference Tournament	Tournament Venue • City	Tournament Winner
Atlantic Coast Conference	Clemson	1974 Atlantic Coast Conference Baseball Tournament	Doak Field • Raleigh, NC	NC State
Big Eight Conference	Oklahoma	No Tournament
Big Ten Conference	Iowa/Minnesota	No Tournament
EIBL	Harvard	No Tournament
Mid-American Conference	Miami (OH)	No Tournament
Pacific-8 Conference	North - Oregon/Washington State South - Southern California	No Tournament
Southeastern Conference	Vanderbilt	No Tournament
Southern Conference	East Carolina	No Tournament
Southwest Conference	Texas	No Tournament

Conference standings

The following is an incomplete list of conference standings:

1974 Atlantic Coast Conference baseball standings
	Conf				Overall
Team	W		L	PCT	W		L	PCT
Clemson †	10	–	1	.909	23	–	15	.605
North Carolina	9	–	3	.750	22	–	8	.733
NC State ‡^y	7	–	5	.583	22	–	12	.647
Maryland	6	–	6	.500	11	–	17	.393
Virginia	6	–	6	.500	21	–	17	.553
Duke	3	–	8	.273	9	–	16	.360
Wake Forest	0	–	12	.000	8	–	20	.286

† – Conference champion ‡ – Tournament champion y – Invited to the NCAA Tournament As of June 30, 1974^[3]; Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

1974 Pacific-8 Conference baseball standings
	Conf				Overall
Team	W		L	PCT	W		L	PCT
Northern Division
Washington State ^x	14	–	4	.778	38	–	9	.809
#29 Oregon	12	–	6	.667		–		–
Oregon State	6	–	12	.333	16	–	23	.410
Washington	5	–	12	.294	10	–	28	.263
Southern Division
#1 Southern California ^x^y	11	–	7	.611	50	–	20	.714
Stanford	10	–	8	.556	28	–	19	.596
California	8	–	10	.444	25	–	24	.510
UCLA	7	–	11	.389	26	–	35	.426

x – Division champion y – Invited to the NCAA Tournament As of June 30, 1974^[4]; Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

College World Series

Main article: 1974 College World Series

The 1974 season marked the twenty eighth NCAA Baseball Tournament, which culminated with the eight team College World Series. The College World Series was held in Omaha, Nebraska. The eight teams played a double-elimination format, with Southern California claiming their tenth championship, and fifth in a row, with a 7–3 win over Miami (FL) in the final.^[1]

First Round			Second Round			Third Round

Winner's Bracket
	Miami	4
	Harvard	1
				Miami	5
				Oklahoma	1
	Oklahoma	10
	Northern Colorado	1
							Miami	7
							Southern California	3
	Southern California	9
	Texas	2
				Southern California	5
				Southern Illinois	3
	Southern Illinois	5
	Seton Hall	1
			Loser's Bracket
				Harvard	2
				Northern Colorado	4		Northern Colorado	2
							Southern Illinois	5
				Texas	12
				Seton Hall	2		Texas	10
							Oklahoma	4

Semifinals			Finals			if needed

Re-ordered Semi-finals
	Miami	3					Miami	3
	Southern Illinois	4					Southern California	7
				Southern Illinois	2
				Southern California	7
	Southern California	5
	Texas	3

Award winners

All-America team

Main article: 1974 College Baseball All-America Team

References

1 2 3 W.C. Madden & Patrick J. Stewart (2004). The College World Series:A Baseball History, 1947-2003. McFarland & Co. pp. 41–43. Retrieved August 20, 2014.
↑ "NCAA Men's College World Series Records" (PDF). NCAA. 2009. p. 7. Retrieved August 20, 2014.
↑ "College Baseball Conference Standings -- 1974". Boyd's World. Retrieved August 20, 2014.
↑ "College Baseball Conference Standings -- 1974". Boyd's World. Retrieved August 20, 2014.

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