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2018 Big South Conference
softball tournament
Teams6
FormatDouble-elimination tournament
Finals site
ChampionsLiberty (3rd title)
Winning coachDot Richardson (1st title)
MVPAutumn Bishop (Liberty)
TelevisionBig South Network, ESPN+, ESPN3
  • 2017
  • Big South Softball Tournament
  • 2019

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.

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Tournament

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  • All times listed are Eastern Daylight Time.

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References

  1. ^ "2018 Softball Standings" (Press release). Big South Conference. May 6, 2018. Retrieved May 6, 2018.
  2. ^ "2018 SOFTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP" (Press release). Big South Conference. February 2, 2018. Retrieved April 15, 2018.
  3. ^ "2018 Big South Softball Championship" (PDF). bigsouthsports.com. Retrieved April 15, 2018.