2015 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament
School Conference Record ( Conference ) Head Coach Previous CWS Appearances Best CWS Finish CWS Record Not including this year
Arkansas SEC 40-23 ( 17-12 ) Dave Van Horn 7 ( last : 2012 ) 2nd ( 1979 ) 11-14
Cal State Fullerton Big West 39-23 ( 19-5 ) Rick Vanderhook 16 ( last : 2009 ) 1st ( 1979 , 1984 , 1995 , 2004 ) 34-27
Florida SEC 49-16 ( 19-11 ) Kevin O'Sullivan 8 ( last : 2012 ) 2nd ( 2005 , 2011 ) 11-17
LSU SEC 53-10 ( 21-8 ) Paul Mainieri 16 ( last : 2013 ) 1st ( 1991 , 1993 , 1996 , 1997 , 2000 , 2009 ) 35-22
Miami ( FL ) ACC 49-15 ( 22-8 ) Jim Morris 23 ( last : 2008 ) 1st ( 1982 , 1985 , 1999 , 2001 ) 47-38
TCU Big 12 49-13 ( 18-5 ) Jim Schlossnagle 2 ( last : 2014 ) 3rd ( 2010 ) 4-4
Vanderbilt SEC 47-19 ( 20-10 ) Tim Corbin 2 ( last : 2014 ) 1st ( 2014 ) 7-4
Virginia ACC 39-22 ( 15-15 ) Brian O'Connor 3 ( last : 2014 ) 2nd ( 2014 ) 7-6
College World Series -- Participants
The 2015 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament began on Friday, May 29, 2015, as part of the 2015 NCAA Division I baseball season. The 64-team double-elimination tournament concluded with the 2015 College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska, which began on June 13 and ended on June 24 with the Virginia Cavaliers upsetting the defending champion Vanderbilt Commodores 4-2 in the decisive Game 3 and thereby avenging their CWS Finals loss to Vanderbilt the previous year. The 64 participating NCAA Division I college baseball teams were selected out of an eligible 298 teams. Thirty-one teams were awarded an automatic bid as champions of their conferences, and 33 teams were selected at-large by the NCAA Division I Baseball Committee. Teams were divided into 16 regionals of four teams, which conducted a double-elimination tournament. Regional champions then faced each other in Super Regionals, a best-of-three series to determine the eight participants of the College World Series. Vanderbilt University and the University of Virginia split the first two games of the best-of-three championship series before Virginia won Game 3, 4-2, to win their first national championship in baseball. The two teams previously met in the championship series in 2014, which Vanderbilt won.