page_title: 2012 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament
section_title: College World Series
hierarchical_section_title: 2012 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament / Tournament notes / College World Series
caption_attribution_description: English: Bo Bigham bats for the Arkansas Razorbacks baseball team against the University of South Carolina at the 2012 College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska
context_page_description: The 2012 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament began on Friday, June 1, 2012 as part of the 2012 NCAA Division I baseball season. The 64 team double elimination tournament concluded with the 2012 College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska, starting on June 15 and ending on June 25.
  The 64 NCAA Division I college baseball teams were selected out of an eligible 297 teams. Thirty teams were awarded an automatic bid as champions of their conferences, and 34 teams were selected at-large by the NCAA Division I Baseball Committee.
context_section_description: Stony Brook was the first College World Series participant from the America East Conference and is the first from New York since St. John's in 1980.
  Kent State was the first MAC team to make the world series since 1976.
  No school from Texas made the College World Series for the first time since 2001.
  This is the 20th consecutive year that the SEC has fielded at least one team in the College World Series.
  This is the 5th consecutive year that the SEC has fielded at least one team in the Championship Series.
  South Carolina becomes the first team since the '96, '97, '98 LSU Tigers to return to Omaha with a chance to defend their back-to-back Championships. Southern California is the only program in CWS history to win three consecutive CWS titles, or more, (1970-1974),(5).
  South Carolina entered the World Series riding two significant postseason winning streaks.
  Longest College World Series winning streak (10 CWS games) in NCAA history.
  Longest post-season winning streak (20 games) in NCAA history. (This streak includes, Regional, Super Regional and College World Series games, and also consists of six one run wins and four games that required extra innings.)
  Florida is making a third consecutive appearance in the College World Series for the first time in team history. Fellow 2012 CWS participants Florida State ('94,'95,'96 & '98,99,'00), Arizona ('58,'59,'60), Oregon State (05,06,07) and South Carolina ('02,'03,'04 & '10,'11,'12) have all made three consecutive appearances.
  The Game 4 match-up between No. 1 seed Florida and No. 8 seed South Carolina marks the first opening-round rematch of the previous season's Championship Game since the 1960 series when Arizona faced, and defeated, the 1959 Champions from Oklahoma State.
  This is the first appearance by Kent State or Stony Brook in the College World Series.
  Stony Brook is the second team since 1999 to be seeded fourth in a regional and advance to the College World Series (Fresno State won 2008 CWS).
  Arizona pitcher Konnor Wade became the first pitcher to throw a complete game shutout without a walk in a College World Series game since 1972.
  For the first time since the tournament expanded to 64 teams in 1999, neither team that started 2-0 in the CWS was a national seed. (Arizona and Arkansas)
  As a result of the 20 June 2012 Game 10 rain delay, South Carolina will become the first team, since Georgia did so in 1987, to play all or part of two games on the same calendar day at the CWS when they face Arkansas in the night game (Game 12) on the 21st. The last team to play two full games, in the College World Series, on the same day was Michigan on 2 June 1980.
  With the 2-0 win over Arkansas in Game 12, South Carolina becomes the first team since 1952 (Holy Cross)(60 years) to win two games in the College World Series on the same day.
caption: Bo Bigham bats for Arkansas against South Carolina
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