2010 Conference USA baseball tournament
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| Teams | 6 |
|---|---|
| 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) |
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. Rice 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.[1]
Regular season results
| Team | W | L | Pct | GB | Seed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
# indicates the number of innings if not 9.
Finish order
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All-Tournament Team
| Position | Player | School |
|---|---|---|
| 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
- ^ "2010 C-USA Baseball Championship". Conference USA. Archived from the original on 29 May 2010. Retrieved 2010-05-24.
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