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2012 Southwestern Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament

2012 Southwestern Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament
2012 swac baseball championship logo.jpg
2012 SWAC baseball tournament logo
Classification Division
Teams 8
Format Double elimination
Site
Champions Prairie View A&M (3rd title)
MVP Evan Richard (Prairie View A&M)
Television ESPNU (Final)
2012 Southwestern Athletic Conference baseball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T   PCT     W   L   T   PCT
East
Jackson State x 21 3 0   .875     35 16 0   .686
Alabama State 14 10 0   .583     20 36 0   .357
Alcorn State 14 10 0   .583     18 37 0   .327
Mississippi Valley State 10 14 0   .417     17 39 0   .304
Alabama A&M 1 23 0   .042     8 42 0   .160
West
Southern x 17 7 0   .708     33 16 0   .673
Prairie View A&M y 15 8 0   .652     28 25 0   .528
Grambling State 13 11 0   .542     22 26 0   .458
Texas Southern 8 15 0   .348     26 27 0   .491
Arkansas–Pine Bluff 6 18 0   .250     8 38 1   .181
x – Division champion
‡ – Tournament champion
y – Invited to the NCAA Tournament
As of June 30, 2012; Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

The 2012 Southwestern Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament took place at Lee–Hines Field, on the campus of Southern University in Baton Rouge, LA from May 16 through May 20, 2012. The Prairie View A&M Panthers won their third tournament championship and earned the conference's automatic bid to the 2012 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.

The double elimination tournament featured the top four teams from each division, leaving one team from each division out of the field.

The top four finishers in each division were seeded one through four, with the top seed from each division facing the fourth seed from the opposite division in the first round, and so on. Alcorn State claimed the second seed from the East by tiebreaker over Alabama State. The teams played a two bracket, double-elimination tournament with a one-game final between the winners of each bracket.

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

Evan Richard was named Most Valuable Player. Richard was a catcher for Prairie View A&M.


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