1948 NCAA baseball season

Defending ChampionsCalifornia

DurationJune 16–26, 1948

DurationJune 25–26, 1948

ChampionsSouthern California (1st title)

1948 NCAA Division I baseball season
Defending Champions	California
Tournament
Duration	June 16–26, 1948
College World Series
Duration	June 25–26, 1948
Champions	Southern California (1st title)
Runners-up	Yale (2nd CWS Appearance)
Winning Coach	Sam Barry & Rod Dedeaux (1st title)
Seasons
← 1947 1949 →

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.^[1]

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.^[1]

Conference	Regular season winner	Conference tournament	Tournament winner
Big Nine	Illinois	No conference tournament
Big Seven	Nebraska	No conference tournament
CIBA	Southern California	No conference tournament
EIBL	Dartmouth	No conference tournament
Mid-American Conference	Ohio	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
Southeastern Conference	Mississippi State	No conference tournament
Southern Conference	North Carolina	No conference tournament
Southwest Conference	Texas	No conference tournament

Conference standings

The following is an incomplete list of conference standings:

1948 Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League baseball standings
v t e	Conf.						Overall
Team	W		L		T	PCT	W		L		T	PCT
Dartmouth ‍†‍‍	7	–	1	–	0	.875	12	–	4	–	1	.735
Navy ‍‍‍	7	–	2	–	0	.778	14	–	7	–	0	.667
Yale ‍‍‍^y	6	–	3	–	0	.667	21	–	9	–	1	.694
Army ‍‍‍	5	–	3	–	0	.625	16	–	7	–	0	.696
Cornell ‍‍‍	3	–	4	–	0	.429	8	–	9	–	0	.471
Columbia ‍‍‍	3	–	5	–	0	.375	7	–	5	–	0	.583
Penn ‍‍‍	3	–	5	–	0	.375	10	–	10	–	1	.500
Princeton ‍‍‍	3	–	6	–	0	.333	9	–	15	–	0	.375
Harvard ‍‍‍	2	–	4	–	0	.333	12	–	11	–	1	.521
Brown ‍‍‍	0	–	6	–	0	.000	2	–	11	–	0	.154

† – Conference champion y – Invited to the NCAA Tournament

1948 Pacific Coast Conference baseball standings
v t e	Conf.						Overall
Team	W		L		T	PCT	W		L		T	PCT
North Division
Washington State ‍†‍‍	8	–	3	–	0	.727	21	–	7	–	0	.750
Oregon ‍‍‍	10	–	5	–	0	.667	12	–	6	–	0	.667
Washington ‍‍‍	8	–	7	–	0	.533	8	–	7	–	0	.533
Oregon State ‍‍‍	4	–	7	–	0	.364	7	–	7	–	0	.500
Idaho ‍‍‍	2	–	10	–	0	.167	10	–	12	–	1	.457
California Intercollegiate Baseball Association
Southern California ‍†‍‍^y	13	–	2	–	0	.867	26	–	5	–	0	.839
Santa Clara ‍‍‍	9	–	6	–	0	.600	15	–	11	–	0	.577
California ‍‍‍	8	–	3	–	0	.727	20	–	14	–	0	.588
Stanford ‍‍‍	5	–	9	–	0	.357	15	–	11	–	0	.577
UCLA ‍‍‍	5	–	10	–	0	.333	21	–	18	–	0	.538
St. Mary's ‍‍‍	4	–	10	–	0	.286	0	–	0	–	0	–

† – Conference champion y – Invited to the NCAA tournament

v t e NCAA Division I baseball seasons
Pre-regulation	1859 1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906
IAAUS	1907 1908 1909 1910
NCAA Pre-Tournament Era	1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946
NCAA Tournament Era	1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025

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Yale	1	8	2