Eight regional competitions were held to determine the participants in the final event.
[1] The forty-seventh tournament's champion was LSU, coached by Skip Bertman.
The opening rounds of the tournament were played across eight regional sites across the country, each consisting of a six-team field.
at Atlanta, GA[2][3] at College Station, TX[4][5] at Austin, TX[6][7] at Tallahassee, FL[8][9] at Knoxville, TN[10][11] at Stillwater, OK[12][13] at Baton Rouge, LA[14][15] at Tempe, AZ[16][17] Texas and Texas A&M became the last schools to represent the Southwest Conference in the CWS.
The SWC folded following the 1996 baseball season, with membership split among the Big 12, Conference USA and the WAC.