The 2022 NCAA Division I baseball season was a college baseball season in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division I level. It began on February 18, 2022, with play progressing through the regular season, various conference tournaments and championship series, and concluding with the 2022 NCAA Division I baseball tournament and 2022 Men's College World Series. The Men's College World Series, consisting of the eight remaining teams in the NCAA tournament and held annually in Omaha, Nebraska, at Charles Schwab Field Omaha, ended on June 26, 2022.
Realignment The following schools changed conferences effective with the 2022 season: Five schools left the Southland Conference. Abilene Christian, Lamar, Sam Houston, and Stephen F. Austin joined the Western Athletic Conference, and Central Arkansas joined the ASUN Conference. The Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) lost three members. Bethune–Cookman and Florida A&M joined the Southwestern Athletic Conference, and North Carolina A&T joined the Big South Conference. The Ohio Valley Conference lost Eastern Kentucky and Jacksonville State to the ASUN. Northern Colorado, a WAC baseball associate through the 2021 season, left for single-sport membership in the Summit League. St. Thomas, formerly of NCAA Division III's Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, also joined the Summit League after successfully obtaining an NCAA waiver for a direct transition to D-I.
The 2022 season proved to be the last for MEAC baseball for the immediate future. On July 12, 2022, the Northeast Conference (NEC) and MEAC announced a partnership in which all MEAC members that sponsored baseball and men's and women's golf became NEC affiliates in those sports effective immediately. Accordingly, Coppin State, Delaware State, Maryland Eastern Shore, and Norfolk State became NEC baseball affiliates for the 2023 season and beyond.
In addition to the aforementioned MEAC members, 18 other teams changed conferences after the 2022 season: Austin Peay, Belmont, and Murray State left the Ohio Valley Conference. Peay joined the ASUN Conference, and Belmont and Murray State joined the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC). Bryant and Mount St. Mary's left the NEC, respectively for the America East Conference and Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC). Dallas Baptist, a baseball-only member of the MVC, left for Conference USA (C-USA). Hartford, which began a transition to NCAA Division III in the 2021–22 school year, left the America East to become an independent for 2022–23 before joining the D-III Commonwealth Coast Conference in 2023. James Madison left the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) for the Sun Belt Conference (SBC). Lamar, which had announced it would leave the WAC to return to its former home of the Southland Conference (SLC) in 2023–24, expedited this move to 2022–23. Little Rock and UT Arlington left the SBC, respectively for the OVC and WAC. Marshall, Old Dominion, and Southern Miss left C-USA for the SBC. Monmouth left the MAAC for the CAA. North Carolina A&T left the Big South Conference after only one season for the CAA. Stony Brook left the America East for the CAA. UIC left the Horizon League for the MVC.
Incarnate Word had announced plans to leave the SLC for the WAC after the 2022 season, but days before that move was to take effect, the school announced it was staying in the SLC.
Conference standings
Conference winners and tournaments
Thirty athletic conferences each end their regular seasons with a single-elimination tournament or a double-elimination tournament. The teams in each conference that win their regular season title are given the number one seed in each tournament. The winners of these tournaments receive automatic invitations to the 2022 NCAA Division I baseball tournament. Conference Regular season winner Conference Player of the Year Conference Pitcher of the Year Conference Coach of the Year Conference tournament Tournament venue (city) Tournament winner America East Conference Division A - Division B - Evan Giordano, Stony Brook Ryan Fischer, Nick Derba, Maine 2022 America East Conference baseball tournament Mahaney Diamond • Orono, ME American Athletic Conference Griffin Merritt, Carter Spivey, East Carolina Cliff Godwin, East Carolina 2022 American Athletic Conference baseball tournament BayCare Ballpark • Clearwater, FL East Carolina ASUN Conference East - /Liberty West - / Matt Higgins, Tyler Cleveland, Jeff Forehand, Lipscomb 2022 ASUN Conference baseball tournament Swanson Stadium • Fort Myers, FL Kennesaw State Atlantic 10 Conference Davidson Michael Carico, Davidson Blake Hely, Davidson Rucker Taylor, Davidson 2022 Atlantic 10 Conference baseball tournament Wilson Field • Davidson, NC VCU Atlantic Coast Conference Atlantic - Louisville Coastal - Virginia Tech Max Wagner, Clemson Rhett Lowder, John Szefc, Virginia Tech 2022 Atlantic Coast Conference baseball tournament Truist Field • Charlotte, NC North Carolina Big 12 Conference TCU Ivan Melendez, Texas Brandon Birdsell, Texas Tech Kirk Saarloos, TCU 2022 Big 12 Conference baseball tournament Globe Life Field • Arlington, TX Oklahoma Big East Conference UConn Luke Franzoni, &Alan Roden, Dylan Tebrake, Creighton (Edwin Thompson) 2022 Big East Conference baseball tournament Prasco Park • Mason, OH UConn Big South Conference Campbell Zach Neto, Campbell Thomas Harrington, Campbell Justin Haire, Campbell 2022 Big South Conference baseball tournament Truist Point • High Point, NC Campbell Big Ten Conference Maryland Chris Alleyne, Maryland Adam Mazur, Iowa Rob Vaughn, Maryland 2022 Big Ten Conference baseball tournament Charles Schwab Field Omaha • Omaha, NE Michigan Big West Conference Brooks Lee, Drew Thorpe, Cal Poly Andrew Checketts, UC Santa Barbara No tournament, regular season champion earns auto bid Colonial Athletic Association Brooks Baldwin, William Privette, Charleston Chad Holbrook, Charleston 2022 Colonial Athletic Association baseball tournament Latham Park • Elon, NC Conference USA Southern Miss Matt Coutney, Old Dominion Tanner Hall, Southern Miss Scott Berry, Southern Miss 2022 Conference USA baseball tournament Pete Taylor Park • Hattiesburg, MS Louisiana Tech Horizon League Alec Sayre, Wright State Matt Brosky, Youngstown State Jordon Banfield 2022 Horizon League baseball tournament Nischwitz Stadium • Fairborn, OH Wright State Ivy League Kade Kretzschmar, Kevin Eaise, Penn Brett Boretti, 2022 Ivy League Baseball Championship Series Meiklejohn Stadium • Philadelphia, PA Columbia Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Max Grant, Trey Dombroski, Chris Tracz, 2022 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference baseball tournament Clover Stadium • Pomona, NY Canisius Mid-American Conference Ball State Matt Kirk, Tyler Schweitzer, Ball State Rich Maloney, Ball State 2022 Mid-American Conference baseball tournament Campus Sites Central Michigan Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Trey Paige, Delaware State Jordan Hamberg, J. P. Blandin, Delaware State 2022 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference baseball tournament Marty L. Miller Field • Norfolk, VA Coppin State Missouri Valley Conference Kaeber Rog, Southern Illinois Nick Smith, Wes Carroll, Evansville 2022 Missouri Valley Conference baseball tournament Hammons Field • Springfield, MO Mountain West Conference Sam Kulasingam, Troy Melton, &Paul Skenes, Air Force Stan Stolte, UNLV 2022 Mountain West Conference baseball tournament Tony Gwynn Stadium • San Diego, CA Air Force Northeast Conference Matt Woods, Joshua Loeschorn, LIU Dan Pirillo, LIU 2022 Northeast Conference baseball tournament Dodd Stadium • Norwich, CT LIU Ohio Valley Conference Guy Lipscomb, Belmont Andy Bean, Belmont Dave Jarvis, Belmont 2022 Ohio Valley Conference baseball tournament Wild Health Field • Lexington, KY Pac-12 Conference Stanford Jacob Melton, Oregon State Alex Williams, Stanford David Esquer, Stanford 2022 Pac-12 Conference baseball tournament Scottsdale Stadium • Scottsdale, AZ Stanford Patriot League Casey Rother, Connelly Early, Army Jim Foster, Army 2022 Patriot League baseball tournament Campus Sites Army Southeastern Conference East – TennesseeWest – Texas A&M Dylan Crews, LSU & Sonny DiChiara, Auburn Chase Dollander, Tennessee Tony Vitello, Tennessee 2022 Southeastern Conference baseball tournament Hoover Metropolitan Stadium • Hoover, AL Tennessee Southern Conference Hogan Windish, Alex Hoppe, UNC Greensboro Todd Interdonato, Wofford 2022 Southern Conference baseball tournament Fluor Field at the West End • Greenville, SC UNC Greensboro Southland Conference McNeese Payton Harden, McNeese Starter: Grant Rogers, McNeeseReliever: Cameron Foster, McNeese Justin Hill, McNeese 2022 Southland Conference baseball tournament Campus Sites Southeastern Louisiana Southwestern Athletic Conference East - West - Corey King, Alabama State Shemar Page, José Vázquez, Alabama State 2022 Southwestern Athletic Conference baseball tournament Regions Field • Birmingham, AL Alabama State Summit League North Dakota State Mike Boeve, Ledgend Smith, Tyler Oakes, North Dakota State 2022 Summit League baseball tournament J. L. Johnson Stadium • Tulsa, OK Oral Roberts Sun Belt Conference Texas State Dalton Shuffield, Texas State Reid VanScoter, Coastal Carolina Steven Trout, Texas State 2022 Sun Belt Conference baseball tournament Riverwalk Stadium • Montgomery, AL Louisiana West Coast Conference Caleb Ricketts, Brett Gillis, Mark Machtolf, Gonzaga 2022 West Coast Conference baseball tournament Banner Island Ballpark • Stockton, CA San Diego Western Athletic Conference Southwest - West - Carlos Contreras, Sam Houston Daniel Avitia, Grand Canyon Andy Stankiewicz, Grand Canyon 2022 Western Athletic Conference baseball tournament HoHoKam Stadium • Mesa, AZ
College World Series
Coaching changes
This table lists programs that changed head coaches at any point from the first day of the 2022 season until the day before the first day of the 2023 season. Team Formercoach Interimcoach Newcoach Reason Austin Peay Travis Janssen Trevor Fitt Roland Fanning Performance BYU Mike LittlewoodTrent Pratt Personal Kansas Ritch Price none Dan Fitzgerald Retired. San Francisco Nino Giarratano Mat Keplinger Rob DiToma Sexual conduct scandal Clemson Monte Lee None Erik Bakich Performance Marshall Jeff Waggoner N/A Greg Beals Performance
See also
2022 NCAA Division I softball season
References