| Current Season: | 2024 NCAA Division III baseball tournament |
| Pixels: | 125px |
| Sport: | College baseball |
| Founded: | 1976 |
| Teams: | 56 |
| Champion: | Misericordia (1st) |
| Most Champs: | Marietta (6 titles) |
| Tv: | ESPNU |
| Website: | NCAA.com |
The NCAA Division III baseball tournament is an annual college baseball tournament held at the culmination of the spring regular season to determine the NCAA Division III baseball champion. The tournament has been played since 1976, soon after the formation of Division III. Most of the 56 teams who qualify do so by winning an automatic bid that comes along with their conference's championship; others receive at-large bids. The initial round consists of six- and eight-team regionals held at pre-selected sites in eight regions: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic, South, Mideast, Midwest, Central, and West. The eight regional champions advance to the final round of the Division III Baseball Championship tournament.[1]
The tournament final will be hosted in Classic Park in Eastlake, Ohio beginning in 2024.
The event was formerly held at Fox Cities Stadium in Grand Chute, Wisconsin, just outside of Appleton for 18 years until it left for Veterans Memorial Stadium in Cedar Rapids, Iowa following the 2018 championships.[2] The championship was held in Cedar Rapids four times beginning in 2019 and hosted by the American Rivers Conference.[3] Cedar Rapids was set to only host until 2022, but was awarded the 2023 championships after 2020 was cancelled due to COVID-19. The championships will move to Classic Park in Eastlake, Ohio for the 2024 NCAA championships.[4]
In both the regional and final rounds, the tournament uses a "double elimination" format, in which teams must lose twice to be eliminated.
Marietta is the most successful program, with six national titles.[5]
Misericordia are the reigning national champions, winning their first championship in 2024.[6]
| style= colspan=8 | NCAA Division III Baseball Championship | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Site | Stadium | Championship Results | |||
| Champion | Score | Runner-Up | ||||
| 1976 Details | Marietta, OH | Pioneer Park | 13–6 | |||
| 1977 Details | (2) | 8–5 | ||||
| 1978 Details | 5–3 | |||||
| 1979 Details | (2) | 3–0 | ||||
| 1980 Details | 12–5 | |||||
| 1981 Details | 14–1212 | |||||
| 1982 Details | 11–6 | |||||
| 1983 Details | (2) | 36–8 | ||||
| 1984 Details | 5–4 | |||||
| 1985 Details | 11–6 | |||||
| 1986 Details | (3) | 11–6 | ||||
| 1987 Details | 13–1210 | |||||
| 1988 Details | Bristol, CT | Muzzy Field | (2) | 7–5 | ||
| 1989 Details | 8–713 | |||||
| 1990 Details | Battle Creek, MI | C. O. Brown Stadium | (2) | 8–1 | ||
| 1991 Details | 9–0 | |||||
| 1992 Details | 3–1 | |||||
| 1993 Details | (2) | 3–1 | ||||
| 1994 Details | (2) | 6–2 | ||||
| 1995 Details | Salem, VA | Kiwanis Field | 5–3 | |||
| 1996 Details | Salem, VA | Salem Memorial Baseball Stadium | (2) | 6–5 | ||
| 1997 Details | (2) | 15–1 | ||||
| 1998 Details | (3) | 16–1 | ||||
| 1999 Details | (2) | 1–0 | ||||
| 2000 Details | Grand Chute, WI | Fox Cities Stadium | (3) | 6–2 | ||
| 2001 Details | 8–4 | |||||
| 2002 Details | (4) | 8–0 | ||||
| 2003 Details | 15–7 | |||||
| 2004 Details | 6–3 | |||||
| 2005 Details | 11–4 | |||||
| 2006 Details | (4) | 7–2 | ||||
| 2007 Details | 5–4 | |||||
| 2008 Details | 5–4 | |||||
| 2009 Details | (2) | 3–2 | ||||
| 2010 Details | 17–5 | |||||
| 2011 Details | (5) | 18–5 | ||||
| 2012 Details | (6) | 7–2 | ||||
| 2013 Details | 4–1 | |||||
| 2014 Details | (2) | 7–0 | ||||
| 2015 Details | 11–3, 6–2 | |||||
| 2016 Details | 14–6, 10–7 | |||||
| 2017 Details | 2–12, 12–4, 7–2 | |||||
| 2018 Details | 8–1, 9–6 | |||||
| 2019 Details | Cedar Rapids, IA | Veterans Memorial Stadium | (2) | 6–4, 11–0 | ||
| 2020 | Canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic | |||||
| 2021 Details | Cedar Rapids, IA | Veterans Memorial Stadium | 6–1, 4–2 | |||
| 2022 Details | (5) | 11–6, 3–2 | ||||
| 2023 Details | 5–2, 6–11, 7–6 | |||||
| 2024 Details | Eastlake, OH | Classic Park | 12–9, 10–16, 10–5 | |||
| 2025 Details | ||||||
| 2026 Details | ||||||
| Team | Titles | Years | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| style= | 6 | 1981, 1983, 1986, 2006, 2011, 2012 | ||
| style= | 5 | 1982, 1990, 1998, 2002, 2022 | ||
| style= | 3 | 1987, 1993, 2000 | ||
| style= | 2 | 2003, 2019 | ||
| style= | 2 | 2005, 2014 | ||
| style= | 2 | 1989, 1999 | ||
| style= | 2 | 1991, 1997 | ||
| style= | 2 | 1992, 1996 | ||
| style= | 2 | 1985, 1994 | ||
| style= | 2 | 1980, 1988 | ||
| style= | 2 | 1978, 1979 | ||
| style= | 1 | 2024 | ||
| style= | 1 | 2023 | ||
| style= | 1 | 2021 | ||
| style= | 1 | 2017 | ||
| style= | 1 | 2016 | ||
| style= | 1 | 2015 | ||
| style= | 1 | 2013 | ||
| style= | 1 | 2004 | ||
| style= | 1 | 2010 | ||
| style= | 1 | 2008 | ||
| style= | 1 | 2007 | ||
| style= | 1 | 1995 | ||
| style= | 1 | 1984 |
| Team | Titles | Years | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| style= | 2 | 1976, 1977 | ||
| style= | 2 | 2001, 2009 | ||
| style= | 1 | 2018 |