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2011 Mid-American Conference Baseball Tournament

2011 Mid-American Conference Baseball Tournament
Classification Division
Teams 8
Format Double-elimination
Site
Champions Kent State (9th title)
Winning coach Scott Stricklin (4th title)
MVP David Starn (Kent State)
2011 Mid-American Conference baseball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   PCT     W   L   PCT
East Division
#26 Kent State xy 21 5   .808     45 17   .726
Miami 18 9   .667     35 25   .583
Bowling Green 11 14   .440     20 31   .392
Ohio 11 16   .407     27 27   .500
Akron 7 20   .259     16 37   .302
Buffalo 3 22   .120     14 38   .269
West Division
Central Michigan x 17 9   .654     31 27   .534
Eastern Michigan 16 11   .593     37 22   .627
Northern Illinois 16 11   .593     30 27   .526
Toledo 15 12   .556     26 29   .473
Western Michigan 12 14   .462     26 31   .456
Ball State 11 15   .423     15 35   .300
x – Division champion
‡ – Tournament champion
y – Invited to the NCAA Tournament
As of June 7, 2011; Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

The 2011 Mid-American Conference Baseball Tournament took place from May 25–28. The top eight regular season finishers of the league's twelve teams, regardless of division, met in the double-elimination tournament held at V.A. Memorial Stadium in Chillicothe, Ohio. Kent State won their third consecutive tournament, and ninth overall, to earn the conference's automatic bid to the 2011 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.

The winners of each division claim the top two seeds, with the next six teams, based on conference winning percentage claim the third through eight seeds. The teams then play a two bracket, double-elimination tournament leading to a final matching the winners of each bracket.

The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team.

David Starn won the Tournament Most Valuable Player award. Starn was a pitcher for Kent State.


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