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The College World Series is the culmination of the NCAA Division I Baseball Championship which determines the NCAA Division I College Baseball champion. It takes place in June of each year. Since 1950, the tournament has been held at Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha , Nebraska ; earlier tournaments were held at Hyames Field in Kalamazoo , Michigan (1947-48) and Wichita , Kansas (1949). The name is derived from that of the Major League Baseball World Series championship. 2007 The 2007 College World Series was held from June 15 -24 , with 2006 champion Oregon State defending its title over 2006 runner-up North Carolina , winning 11-4 and 9-3 in the best-of-three series. The last team to repeat as national champions was LSU in 1997 . The last repeat of the previous year's finals was in 1973 , when USC defeated Arizona State for the second straight year. (USC won five straight titles from 1970-74.) In 2007 the eight teams that advanced to the CWS started from an initial field of 64 teams, first from the 16 four-team Double-elimination ''regionals''. Oregon State began the tournament as a #3 seed in the regionals, in the lower half of the 64 teams. The 16 winners from regionals advanced to the ''super regionals'', 8 head-to-head matchups in a best-of-three format. The winners of these 8 super regionals advanced to the College World Series in Omaha. The ''regional'' portion of the 2007 NCAA Baseball Tournament took place on June 1-4 at 16 sites. The eight site ''super-regional'' round took place June 8-11 at Rice , Louisville , Mississippi State , North Carolina , Oregon State , Cal State Fullerton , Arizona State , and Wichita State . Wichita State was the only host not to advance, falling to UC Irvine in two games. Format changes Through 1987 , the College World Series was a pure double-elimination event. The format was changed in 1988 , when the tournament was divided into two four-team double-elimination brackets, with the survivors of each bracket playing in a single championship game. The single-game championship was made for broadcast television, with the final game on CBS on Saturday afternoon. In 2003 , the tournament returned entirely to cable on ESPN , which had began covering all of the other games of the CWS since 1982 (and a partial schedule since 1980 ). {Link without Title} The championship final became a best-of-three series between the two bracket winners, with games scheduled for Saturday, Sunday, and Monday evenings. In the results shown here, Score indicates the score of the championship game(s) only. Since 1999 , the four-team brackets in the CWS have been determined by the results of regional and super regional play, much like the NCAA Basketball Tournament . Prior to 1999, the pairings for the CWS were not determined until after the completion of the regional tournaments. Before expanding to 64 teams in 1999 , the tournament had 48 teams, split into 8 six-team regionals. The winner of each regional advanced to the College World Series. The regionals were a test of endurance, as teams had to win at least four games over four days, sometimes five if a team dropped into the loser's bracket, placing a premium on pitching. Ironically, in the last two years of the six-team regional format, the eventual CWS champion (LSU in 1997, Southern California in 1998) had to battle back from the loser's bracket in the regional to advance to Omaha. Division II The Division II tournament has been held at Riverwalk Stadium in Montgomery , Alabama (and previously Paterson Field ) since 1985. The Division III tournament has been held at Fox Cities Stadium in Appleton , Wisconsin since 2000. These divisions use a single-game championship rather than the best-of-three series. Division III Marietta College (Ohio) hosted the Division III baseball championship from its first year in 1976 through 1987. The 1988 and 1989 series were played in Bristol, Connecticut. Battle Creek, Michigan took over in 1990 and Salem, Virginia, in 1995. DIVISION I CWS appearances & titles
Most CWS wins (games) (All records are through 2007 College World Series ). DIVISION II
DIVISION III
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