2018 Big South Conference softball tournament

2018 Big South Conference
softball tournament

Teams	6
Format	Double-elimination tournament
Finals site	Radford Softball Stadium Radford, Virginia
Champions	Liberty (3rd title)
Winning coach	Dot Richardson (1st title)
MVP	Autumn Bishop (Liberty)
Television	Big South Network, ESPN+, ESPN3

The 2018 Big South Conference softball tournament was held at Radford University's Radford Softball Stadium from May 9 through May 12, 2018. As in the previous year, the tournament was a six-team field. Liberty won their third ever title, and received an automatic bid to the 2018 NCAA Division I softball tournament.

Seeds

The top two seeds, Liberty and Longwood, had byes to the second round. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.

Seed	School	Conference	Overall	Tiebreaker
1	Liberty‡	18–3	44–12
2	Longwood	17–4	37–14
3	Radford	13–8	33–17
4	Campbell	12–9	26–25
5	Gardner–Webb	8–13	28–27
6	Winthrop	7–14	17–30	2–1 vs Charleston Southern
‡ – Big South regular season champions. Overall records are as of the end of the regular season.

Tournament

	First Round May 9th Big South Network					Second Round May 10th ESPN+					Semifinals May 11th ESPN3										Championship May 12th ESPN3
						1	Liberty	8
	4	Campbell	5			5	Gardner–Webb	2
	5	Gardner–Webb	11								1	Liberty	2:30 pm
											3	Radford	ESPN3
						2	Longwood	1
	3	Radford	3			3	Radford	4
	6	Winthrop	2
																					1	Liberty	5	—
																					3	Radford	1	—
	Lower round 1					Lower round 2					Lower round 3					Lower final
																2	Longwood	2
											2	Longwood	6			3	Radford	3(12)
						4	Campbell	12(6)			4	Campbell	5
	4	Campbell	12(5)			5	Gardner–Webb	4
	6	Winthrop	2

• All times listed are Eastern Daylight Time.