2010 Conference USA baseball tournament
Teams | 6 |
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Format | Two groups of round robin followed by a championship game |
Finals site | |
Champions | Southern Mississippi (2nd title) |
Winning coach | Scott Berry (1st title) |
MVP | Scott Copeland (Southern Mississippi) |
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Team | W | L | PCT | W | L | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
No. 26 Rice † | 17 | – | 7 | .708 | 40 | – | 23 | .635 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Southern Miss ‡ | 14 | – | 10 | .583 | 36 | – | 24 | .600 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Memphis | 12 | – | 12 | .500 | 28 | – | 30 | .483 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Marshall | 12 | – | 12 | .500 | 27 | – | 31 | .466 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Houston | 11 | – | 13 | .458 | 25 | – | 32 | .439 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
East Carolina | 11 | – | 13 | .458 | 32 | – | 27 | .542 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
UAB | 11 | – | 13 | .458 | 28 | – | 25 | .528 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
UCF | 10 | – | 14 | .417 | 33 | – | 22 | .600 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tulane | 10 | – | 14 | .417 | 32 | – | 24 | .571 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
† – Conference champion ‡ – Tournament champion y – Invited to the 2010 NCAA Division I baseball tournament As of June 30, 2010[1] Rankings from Collegiate Baseball |
The 2010 Conference USA baseball tournament was the 2010 postseason college baseball championship of the NCAA Division I Conference USA, held at Cougar Field in Houston, Texas, from May 26–May 30, 2010. Southern Miss won the tournament and received Conference USA's automatic bid to the 2010 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.
The tournament format changed from that which had been used since the 2000 tournament. It consisted of six teams split into two three-team pods. Each team played a total of three preliminary games, two against its podmates and one against a team from the opposite pod. The team with the best record in each pod going advanced to a single-game final.[2]
Regular season results
[edit]Team | W | L | Pct | GB | Seed |
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Rice | 17 | 7 | .708 | -- | 1 |
Southern Miss | 14 | 10 | .583 | 3 | 2 |
Memphis | 12 | 12 | .500 | 5 | 3 |
Marshall | 12 | 12 | .500 | 5 | 4 |
Houston | 11 | 13 | .458 | 6 | 5 |
East Carolina | 11 | 13 | .458 | 6 | 6 |
UAB | 11 | 13 | .458 | 6 | -- |
UCF | 10 | 14 | .417 | 7 | -- |
Tulane | 10 | 14 | .417 | 7 | -- |
Bracket
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Finals | |||
Rice | 4 | ||
Southern Miss | 7 |
Results
[edit]Game | Winning Team | Score | Losing Team |
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1 | Southern Miss | 8–2 | Memphis |
2 | Rice | 11–3 | East Carolina |
3 | Houston | 11–7 | Marshall |
4 | East Carolina | 8–1 | Southern Miss |
5 | Marshall | 10–7 | Memphis |
6 | Rice | 24–3 | Houston |
7 | Memphis | 3–2 | East Carolina |
8 | Rice | 18–0 | Marshall |
9 | Southern Miss | 10–6 | Houston |
10 | Southern Miss | 7–4 | Rice |
Finish order
[edit]Finish | Team | W | L | Pct | Seed | RS | RA | Diff |
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1 | †Southern Miss | 3 | 1 | 0.750 | 2 | 26 | 20 | 6 |
2 | #Rice | 3 | 1 | 0.750 | 1 | 57 | 13 | 44 |
3 | East Carolina | 1 | 2 | 0.333 | 6 | 13 | 15 | -2 |
4 | Memphis | 1 | 2 | 0.333 | 3 | 12 | 20 | -8 |
5 | Marshall | 1 | 2 | 0.333 | 4 | 17 | 36 | -19 |
6 | Houston | 1 | 2 | 0.333 | 5 | 20 | 41 | -21 |
† - Winner of the tournament and received an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.
# - Received an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament.
All-Tournament Team
[edit]Position | Player | School |
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C | Diego Seastrunk | Rice |
IF | Rick Hague | Rice |
IF | Anthony Rendon | Rice |
IF | B.A. Vollmuth | Southern Miss |
IF | Taylor Walker | Southern Miss |
OF | Michael Fuda | Rice |
OF | Chad Mozingo | Rice |
OF | Steven Sultzbaugh | Rice |
DH | M.P. Cokinos | Houston |
P | Scott Copeland | Southern Miss |
P | Seth Maness | East Carolina |
P | Brennon Martin | Memphis |
P | Jared Rogers | Rice |
MVP | Scott Copeland | Southern Miss |
(*)Denotes Unanimous Selection
References
[edit]- ^ Conference USA Baseball Record Book (PDF). Conference USA. Retrieved July 8, 2012.
- ^ "2010 C-USA Baseball Championship". Conference USA. Archived from the original on May 29, 2010. Retrieved May 24, 2010.