That would be incredible if that’s the last time it happened. Which would also mean that every eventual national champ during the current format has started 2-0 in the regionals.

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Posted by Honkus

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Posted on 5/31/25 at 1:51 pm to The Donald

In 2023 Florida started 1-1 in their regional & made the cws finals

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Posted by Broski

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Posted on 5/31/25 at 1:59 pm to Honkus

Oregon State in 2007 was a 3-seed in Virginia's regional and lost to Virginia in the 1-0 game, only to come back and win the regional and eventually it's second straight CWS.

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Posted by Broski

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Posted on 5/31/25 at 2:10 pm to Broski

Went down a wikipedia rabbit hole. the last time a national champion started out 0-1 in a regional was Stanford in 1988 after it opened up its tournament with a 5-3 loss to St. John's.

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Posted by GeekedUp

Virginia

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Posted on 5/31/25 at 2:17 pm to vidtiger23

I have no idea how we got a regional with no other Power 5 schools but I’m glad we did. Hopefully breeze through and be ready to go for supers.

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Posted by Broski

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Posted on 5/31/25 at 2:19 pm to GeekedUp

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I have no idea how we got a regional with no other Power 5 schools but I’m glad we did. Hopefully breeze through and be ready to go for supers.

Dallas Baptist has been a better program than Miami or USC over the last 20 years.

Just because you don't recognize the school's name from football doesn't mean they are weak.

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Posted by Gnash

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Posted on 5/31/25 at 2:22 pm to Broski

DBU is more than capable of winning this regional.

It’s not going to happen but they are capable.

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Posted by BZ504

Texas

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Posted on 5/31/25 at 2:34 pm to Broski

I thought Oregon State one year lost their first game of every round possible and won the CWS. Could be wrong.

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Posted by Broski

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Posted on 5/31/25 at 2:38 pm to BZ504

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I thought Oregon State one year lost their first game of every round possible and won the CWS. Could be wrong.

Nope.

They won their first game in 06, 07 and 18.

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Posted by shutterspeed

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Posted on 5/31/25 at 2:40 pm to The Donald

Not the same, but in '97 LSU had to win 3 straight in that regional format after losing to USA in the 3rd game--2 of those wins having to come back to back against USA in the regional finals. LSU went on to win the CWS, of course, that year.

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Posted by Who_Dat_Tiger

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Posted on 5/31/25 at 3:20 pm to The Donald

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Which would also mean that every eventual national champ during the current format has started 2-0 in the regionals.

I do know that all 7 of our titles came when we hosted regionals/supers all the way to Omaha so we got that working for us.

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Posted by The Donald

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Posted on 6/1/25 at 12:15 pm to Broski

So it appears this is the only time for it to happen in the 25 previous tourneys (1999-2024). So it’s HIGHLY likely based on 25 years of results that one of these teams wins it all:
Louisville
Miami
FSU
USC
UNC
Arizona
Coastal
Auburn
Arkansas
Tennessee
WVU
LSU
Duke
Murray St
UCLA
UTSA

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