# 1948 NCAA baseball season

The 1948 NCAA baseball season, play of college baseball in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) began in the spring of 1948. The season progressed through the regular season and concluded with the 1948 NCAA baseball tournament and 1948 College World Series. The College World Series, held for the second time in 1948, consisted of the two remaining teams in the NCAA Tournament and was held in Kalamazoo, Michigan at Hyames Field as a best of three series. Southern California claimed the championship two games to one over Yale.

## Conference winners

This is a partial list of conference champions from the 1948 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.
| Conference | Regular season winner | Conference tournament | Tournament city | Tournament winner |
| Big Nine | Illinois | No conference tournament | No conference tournament | No conference tournament |
| Big Seven | Nebraska | No conference tournament | No conference tournament | No conference tournament |
| CIBA | Southern California | No conference tournament | No conference tournament | No conference tournament |
| EIBL | Dartmouth | No conference tournament | No conference tournament | No conference tournament |
| Mid-American Conference | Ohio | No conference tournament | No conference tournament | No conference tournament |
| Missouri Valley Conference | Oklahoma A&M | 1948 Missouri Valley Conference baseball tournament | | Oklahoma A&M |
| Pacific Coast Conference North | Washington State | No conference tournament | No conference tournament | No conference tournament |
| Southeastern Conference | Mississippi State | No conference tournament | No conference tournament | No conference tournament |
| Southern Conference | North Carolina | No conference tournament | No conference tournament | No conference tournament |
| Southwest Conference | Texas | No conference tournament | No conference tournament | No conference tournament |

## Conference standings

The following is an incomplete list of conference standings:
1948 Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League baseball standings :
| 1948 Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League baseball standings vteConfOverall TeamW L T PCTW L T PCT Dartmouth ‍†‍‍ 7–1–0 .87512–4–1 .735 Navy ‍‍‍ 7–2–0 .77814–7–0 .667 Yale ‍‍‍$^y$ 6–3–0 .66721–9–1 .694 Army ‍‍‍ 5–3–0 .62516–7–0 .696 Cornell ‍‍‍ 3–4–0 .4298–9–0 .471 Columbia ‍‍‍ 3–5–0 .3757–5–0 .583 Penn ‍‍‍ 3–5–0 .37510–10–1 .500 Princeton ‍‍‍ 3–6–0 .3339–15–0 .375 Harvard ‍‍‍ 2–4–0 .33312–11–1 .521 Brown ‍‍‍ 0–6–0 .0002–11–0 .154 † – Conference champion y – Invited to the NCAA Tournament | 1948 Pacific Coast Conference baseball standings vteConfOverall TeamW L T PCTW L T PCT North Division Washington State ‍†‍‍ 8–3–0 .72721–7–0 .750 Oregon ‍‍‍ 10–5–0 .66712–6–0 .667 Washington ‍‍‍ 8–7–0 .5338–7–0 .533 Oregon State ‍‍‍ 4–7–0 .3647–7–0 .500 Idaho ‍‍‍ 2–10–0 .16710–12–1 .457 California Intercollegiate Baseball Association Southern California ‍†‍‍$^y$ 13–2–0 .86726–5–0 .839 Santa Clara ‍‍‍ 9–6–0 .60015–11–0 .577 California ‍‍‍ 8–3–0 .72720–14–0 .588 Stanford ‍‍‍ 5–9–0 .35715–11–0 .577 UCLA ‍‍‍ 5–10–0 .33321–18–0 .538 St. Mary's ‍‍‍ 4–10–0 .2860–0–0 – † – Conference champion y – Invited to the NCAA tournament |

## NCAA tournament

The 1948 season marked the second NCAA Baseball Tournament, which consisted of eight teams divided into two brackets by region. The Eastern playoff was held in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, while the Western playoff was held in Denver, Colorado. Unlike the previous year, a double-elimination format was used. The winner of each bracket advanced to the College World Series in Kalamazoo, MI, where Southern California defeated Yale in a best of three series.
| College World Series Finals | College World Series Finals | College World Series Finals | College World Series Finals |
| Southern California | 3 | 3 | 9 |
| Yale | 1 | 8 | 2 |