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2014 Conference USA Baseball Tournament

2014 Conference USA Baseball Tournament
Classification Division
Teams 8
Format Double elimination
Site
Champions Rice (6th title)
Winning coach Wayne Graham (6th title)
MVP Michael Aquino (Rice)
Television CBS SN (championship)
2014 Conference USA baseball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T   PCT     W   L   T   PCT
#17 Rice y 23 7 0   .767     41 18 0   .695
UAB 20 10 0   .667     35 21 0   .625
Southern Miss 19 11 0   .633     35 25 0   .583
Middle Tennessee 17 13 0   .567     31 27 0   .534
Old Dominion y 17 13 0   .567     36 24 0   .600
FIU 16 14 0   .533     36 20 0   .643
East Carolina 16 14 0   .533     33 26 0   .559
UTSA 16 14 0   .533     35 26 0   .574
Florida Atlantic 14 16 0   .467     28 25 0   .528
Tulane 10 18 0   .357     23 29 0   .442
Marshall 10 19 0   .345     20 31 0   .392
Charlotte 10 19 0   .345     19 31 1   .382
Louisiana Tech 5 25 0   .167     15 35 0   .300
† – Conference champion
‡ – Tournament champion
y – Invited to the NCAA Tournament
As of May 26, 2014; Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

The 2014 Conference USA Baseball Tournament will be held from May 21 through May 25 at Pete Taylor Park in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. The annual tournament determines the conference champion of the Division I Conference USA for college baseball. The tournament champion will receive the league's automatic bid to the 2014 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament. This is the last of 19 athletic championship events held by the conference in the 2013–14 academic year.

The tournament was established in 1996, Conference USA's first season of play. Tulane and Rice have won the most championships, with five. Among current, returning teams, only Marshall has never won a title. The conference adds eight new teams for 2014.

The top eight finishers from the regular season were seeded one through eight. The tournament returned to a double-elimination format, previously used from 1996 through 2010.

^Note 1 Game 11 will have a necessary if winner of Game 9 also wins Game 11. If so the game will be played on May 24 at 4:00 pm.

^Note 2 Game 12 will have a necessary if winner of Game 10 also wins Game 11. If so the game will be played on May 24 at 7:30 pm.

The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team. Rice outfielder Michael Aquino, one of five Owls selected, was named the tournament's Most Valuable Player.


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