NCAA Division III baseball tournament

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.^[1]

NCAA Division III baseball tournament

Current season, competition or edition: 2025 NCAA Division III baseball tournament
Association	NCAA
Sport	College baseball
Founded	1976; 49 years ago (1976)
Division	Division III
No. of teams	56
Country	United States
Most recent champion(s)	Wisconsin–Whitewater (3rd)
Most titles	Marietta (6 titles)
Broadcaster(s)	ESPNU
Official website	NCAA.com

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.

The tournament final will be hosted in Classic Park in Eastlake, Ohio beginning in 2024.

History

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]

Wisconsin–Whitewater are the reigning national champions, winning their third championship in 2025.^[6]

Results

NCAA Division III Baseball Championship
Year	Site	Stadium	Championship Results
			Champion	Score	Runner-Up
1976 Details	Marietta, OH	Pioneer Park	Cal State Stanislaus	13–6	Ithaca
1977 Details			Cal State Stanislaus (2)	8–5	Brandeis
1978 Details			Glassboro State	5–3	Marietta
1979 Details			Glassboro State (2)	3–0	Cal State Stanislaus
1980 Details			Ithaca	12–5	Marietta
1981 Details			Marietta	14–1212	Ithaca
1982 Details			Eastern Connecticut State	11–6	Cal State Stanislaus
1983 Details			Marietta (2)	36–8	Otterbein
1984 Details			Ramapo	5–4	Marietta
1985 Details			Wisconsin–Oshkosh	11–6	Marietta
1986 Details			Marietta (3)	11–6	Ithaca
1987 Details			Montclair State	13–1210	Wisconsin–Oshkosh
1988 Details	Bristol, CT	Muzzy Field	Ithaca (2)	7–5	Wisconsin–Oshkosh
1989 Details			North Carolina Wesleyan	8–713	Cal State Stanislaus
1990 Details	Battle Creek, MI	C. O. Brown Stadium	Eastern Connecticut State (2)	8–1	Aurora
1991 Details			Southern Maine	9–0	Trenton State
1992 Details			William Paterson	3–1	Cal Lutheran
1993 Details			Montclair State (2)	3–1	Wisconsin–Oshkosh
1994 Details			Wisconsin–Oshkosh (2)	6–2	Wesleyan (Conn.)
1995 Details	Salem, VA	Kiwanis Field	La Verne	5–3	Methodist
1996 Details	Salem, VA	Salem Memorial Baseball Stadium	William Paterson (2)	6–5	Cal Lutheran
1997 Details			Southern Maine (2)	15–1	Wooster
1998 Details			Eastern Connecticut State (3)	16–1	Montclair State
1999 Details			North Carolina Wesleyan (2)	1–0	St. Thomas (Minnesota)
2000 Details	Grand Chute, WI	Fox Cities Stadium	Montclair State (3)	6–2	St. Thomas (Minnesota)
2001 Details			St. Thomas (MN)	8–4	Marietta
2002 Details			Eastern Connecticut State (4)	8–0	Marietta
2003 Details			Chapman	15–7	Christopher Newport
2004 Details			George Fox	6–3	Eastern Connecticut State
2005 Details			Wisconsin–Whitewater	11–4	Cortland
2006 Details			Marietta (4)	7–2	Wheaton (MA)
2007 Details			Kean	5–4	Emory
2008 Details			Trinity (CT)	5–4	Johns Hopkins
2009 Details			St. Thomas (MN) (2)	3–2	Wooster
2010 Details			Illinois Wesleyan	17–5	Cortland
2011 Details			Marietta (5)	18–5	Chapman
2012 Details			Marietta (6)	7–2	Wheaton (Mass.)
2013 Details			Linfield	4–1	Southern Maine
2014 Details			Wisconsin–Whitewater (2)	7–0	Emory
2015 Details			Cortland	11–3, 6–2	Wisconsin–La Crosse
2016 Details			Trinity (TX)	14–6, 10–7	Keystone
2017 Details			Cal Lutheran	2–12, 12–4, 7–2	Washington & Jefferson
2018 Details			Texas–Tyler	8–1, 9–6	Texas Lutheran
2019 Details	Cedar Rapids, IA	Veterans Memorial Stadium	Chapman (2)	6–4, 11–0	Birmingham–Southern
2020	Canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2021 Details	Cedar Rapids, IA	Veterans Memorial Stadium	Salisbury	6–1, 4–2	St. Thomas (Minnesota)
2022 Details			Eastern Connecticut State (5)	11–6, 3–2	Salisbury
2023 Details			Lynchburg	5–2, 6–11, 7–6	Johns Hopkins
2024 Details	Eastlake, OH	Classic Park	Misericordia	12–9, 10–16, 10–5	Wisconsin–Whitewater
2025 Details			Wisconsin–Whitewater (3)	18–3, 21–5	Messiah
2026 Details

Champions

Active programs

Team	Titles	Years
Marietta	6	1981, 1983, 1986, 2006, 2011, 2012
Eastern Connecticut State	5	1982, 1990, 1998, 2002, 2022
Wisconsin–Whitewater	3	2005, 2014, 2025
Montclair State		1987, 1993, 2000
Chapman	2	2003, 2019
North Carolina Wesleyan		1989, 1999
Southern Maine		1991, 1997
William Paterson		1992, 1996
Wisconsin–Oshkosh		1985, 1994
Ithaca		1980, 1988
Rowan		1978, 1979
Misericordia	1	2024
Lynchburg		2023
Salisbury		2021
Cal Lutheran		2017
Trinity (TX)		2016
Cortland		2015
Linfield		2013
George Fox		2004
Illinois Wesleyan		2010
Trinity (CT)		2008
Kean		2007
La Verne		1995
Ramapo		1984

Former programs

Team	Titles	Years
Stanislaus State	2	1976, 1977
St. Thomas (MN)		2001, 2009
Texas–Tyler	1	2018

See also

• Baseball portal

• NCAA Division I Baseball Championship
• NCAA Division II Baseball Championship
• NAIA World Series
• List of college baseball awards
• National Club Baseball Association
• Pre-NCAA baseball champion
• U.S. college baseball awards