Division I Baseball Championship

Dates and sites: Regionals will be June 3-6 at 16 on-campus and predetermined sites. Super regionals will be June 10-13 at eight on- and off-campus sites. The College World Series will be June 17-27 at Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha, Nebraska.

Field: Sixty-four teams, selected by the Division I Baseball Committee. Thirty conferences have been granted automatic qualification.

Selection date: All teams and pairings will be announced live at 11:30 a.m. Eastern time May 30 on ESPN2.

2004 champion: Cal State Fullerton.

Top contenders: Cal State Fullerton, Tulane, Texas, Nebraska, Miami (Florida), Georgia Tech, Baylor.

Championship notes: Defending champion Cal State Fullerton and Tulane have been near the top of all four Division I polls most of the season. The two teams, which squared off in a super regional last season, met for a three-game rematch March 11-13 in New Orleans. Fullerton took the first two contests, including a 15-1 opener in which Titans pitching ace Ricky Romero claimed the win. The Green Wave, however, came back in the finale to snap a nine-game Fullerton winning streak, despite four Titan home runs ... Two Big 12 Conference teams, 2004 runner-up Texas and Nebraska, also are regarded as championship contenders. Texas pitcher Adrian Alaniz became the first freshman to pitch a no-hitter for the Longhorns since 1984 with his April 16 shutout of Oklahoma, while Nebraska features all-American third-baseman Alex Gordon and a pitching staff that boasts the second-best team earned-run average nationally (just ahead of the Longhorns) ... Miami (Florida) pounded Atlantic Coast Conference rival Georgia Tech in the first game of a three-game series in late March, but the Yellow Jackets recovered to claim that series on the Hurricanes' home field, and continued to maintain a narrow lead in league standings through May 8.

Division I Men's Track and Field Championships

Dates and sites: Four regional qualifying meets will be May 27-28 at New York City (Icahu Stadium at Randall's Island), Indiana, Oregon and Oklahoma. The championships will be June 8-11 at Alex G. Spanos Sports Complex in Sacramento, California.

Field: A total of 544 athletes will compete in the championships. Athletes qualify by finishing in the top five in each individual event and in the top three in each relay event at four regional meets. In the decathlon and 10,000-meter run, athletes qualify directly to the national championships by reaching the automatic and provisional standards established.

Selection date: The spots remaining in the field after the automatic qualifiers are entered will be filled from the descending-order list of qualifiers May 31.

2004 team champion: Arkansas.

Top team contenders: Arkansas, Florida, LSU, Arizona, Stanford.

Championships notes: Arkansas used its depth to win the indoor championship earlier this year despite failing to score in two of its strongest events, and seems set to dominate the outdoor meet. Wallace Spearmon has recorded the only time below 20 seconds this spring in the 200-meter run, which he won last year as a freshman, while a corps of Razorbacks will challenge for titles in all of the distance events ... Florida's Kerron Clement goes for the indoor/outdoor sweep of the 400-meter hurdles after his world-record performance in the event at the indoor championships, and joins with versatile teammate Mike Morrison (already a qualifier in two sprint and two jumping events) to again pose what likely will be the biggest challenge to the Razorbacks ... Two members of the United States' Olympic gold medal-winning 1,600-meter relay -- LSU's Kelly Willie and Baylor's Darold Williamson -- appear to be top contenders for this year's 400-meter run crown ... Arizona and Stanford look to their distance runners to put those teams in contention for the crown. Stanford's Ian Dobson had the best times in both the 5,000- and 10,000-meter runs through the end of April.

Division I Women's Rowing Championship

Dates and site: The regatta is May 27-29 at the CSUS Aquatic left in Sacramento, California.

Field: Twelve teams, each required to field two boats of eight rowers and one boat of four rowers. In addition, four teams of eight rowers will be selected from schools not represented in the team competition. No fours will be chosen on an at-large basis.

Selection date: May 17.

2004 team champion: Brown.

Top team contenders: According to a recent USRowing/Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association NCAA Division I Varsity Eight Coaches poll, Princeton, California, Michigan State, Ohio State and Harvard are among the top teams.

Championship notes: Princeton, aiming for its first national championship, completed the regular season undefeated and turned in its second straight perfect Ivy Group season. The Tigers, though, fell to Yale in the Eastern Championship ... Senior Erin Robertson, the Big Ten Conference women's rowing athlete of the year, and Anne Cowan, the conference freshman of the year, powered Michigan State to its first Big Ten championship. The Spartans are seeking their sixth straight appearance in the national championships ... Only four schools -- Brown, Princeton, Virginia and Washington -- have appeared in every NCAA rowing championship since it began in 1997. Brown, the 2004 defending champion, has the most titles with four, followed by Washington with three. Harvard is the only other team to have won a Division I championship.

Division I Women's Track and Field Championships

Dates and sites: Four regional qualifying meets will be May 27-28 at New York City (Icahu Stadium at Randall's Island), Indiana, Oregon and Oklahoma. The championships will be June 8-11 at Alex G. Spanos Sports Complex in Sacramento, California

Field: A total of 544 athletes will compete in the championships. Athletes qualify by finishing in the top five in each individual event and in the top three in each relay event at four regional meets. In the heptathlon and 10,000-meter run, athletes qualify directly to the national championships by reaching the automatic and provisional standards established.

Selection date: The spots remaining in the field after the automatic qualifiers are entered will be filled from the descending-order list of qualifiers May 31.

2004 team champion: UCLA.

Top team contenders: Texas, UCLA, South Carolina, Tennessee, Miami (Florida).

Championships notes: Texas sophomore Marshevet Hooker is fueling the Longhorns' hopes for their first team title since back-to-back victories in 1998 and 1999. She won the 100-meter run and anchored Texas to victory in the 400-meter relay at the Penn Relays in late April ... Defending champion UCLA again hopes it can piece together enough points to take what looks to be another highly competitive outdoor competition. Olympic 400-meter relay gold medalist Monique Henderson (the Bruins' top point producer last year) returns along with defending pole vault champ Chelsea Johnson ... South Carolina's Tiffany Ross-Williams was named the most outstanding college woman at the Penn Relays after leading the Gamecocks to an impressive showing in the nationally televised competition ... Tennessee, which won this year's indoor team title, goes for a sweep led by long jump favorite Tianna Madison, while Kimberli Barrett could power Miami (Florida) into contention with strong performances in the throws.