NCBWA 2006 Season News

The 2026 NCBWA Division II Preseason All-America Team.

The 2024 and 2025 national champion University of Tampa Spartans are the top-ranked team in the NCBWA preseason Division II baseball top 25 poll, which was released Wednesday afternoon. The Spartans went 55-10 in 2025, after posting a 52-8 record in 2024. Tampa received all 20 first-place votes in the preseason national poll.

For the first time in its storied history, the National Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) will add the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) to its weekly polls and player of the week selections.

The National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association continues its tradition of NCAA polls with the NCBWA/D3baseball.com Division III Poll.

The most productive two-way player in Division I this season, University of Houston junior All-American Brad Lincoln has been voted the recipient of the 20th annual Dick Howser Trophy as the 2006 college baseball player of the year. Lincoln was honored in a ceremony this morning in Omaha, prior to the start of the College World Series.

University of Kansas relief pitcher Don Czyz has been named the 2006 winner of the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association's Stopper of the Year Award, the association announced Thursday. The award honors the top relief pitcher in college baseball.

Five standouts chosen from an outstanding Five finalists have been named for the second annual National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association Stopper of the Year Award, the association announced Thursday.field

Thirty players have been named to the midseason watch list for the second annual National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association Stopper of the Year Award, the association announced Wednesday. The award will be given to the top relief pitcher in Division I college baseball.

Thirty players have been named to the watch list for the second annual National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association Stopper of the Year Award, the association announced Wednesday. The award will be given to the top relief pitcher in Division I college baseball.