2017 Horizon League baseball tournament
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The 2017 Horizon League baseball tournament was held from May 24 through 27 at Les Miller Field at Curtis Granderson Stadium in Chicago, home to conference regular-season champion UIC. The top six finishers of the league's seven teams met in the double-elimination tournament. UIC won the tournament to earn the conference's automatic bid to the 2017 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.[1][2]
Teams | 6 |
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Format | Double-elimination |
Finals site | |
Champions | UIC (5th title) |
Winning coach | Mike Dee (5th title) |
MVP | David Cronin (UIC) |
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Team | W | L | PCT | W | L | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
UIC †‡y | 22 | – | 8 | .733 | 39 | – | 17 | .696 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wright State | 21 | – | 9 | .700 | 38 | – | 21 | .644 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Northern Kentucky | 17 | – | 13 | .567 | 25 | – | 33 | .431 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Valparaiso | 13 | – | 15 | .464 | 24 | – | 29 | .453 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Oakland | 11 | – | 19 | .367 | 17 | – | 40 | .298 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Milwaukee | 10 | – | 18 | .357 | 22 | – | 32 | .407 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Youngstown State | 9 | – | 21 | .300 | 15 | – | 40 | .273 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
† – Conference champion ‡ – Tournament champion y – Invited to the NCAA tournament Rankings from Collegiate Baseball |
Seeding and format
editThe league's teams were seeded 1 through 7 based on winning percentage in conference play. The last-place team did not qualify for the tournament, and the remaining six teams played a double-elimination tournament.
Bracket
editPlay-in games
editTeam | R |
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#6 Milwaukee | 5 |
#3 Northern Kentucky | 11 |
Team | R |
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#5 Oakland | 6 |
#4 Valparaiso | 4 |
Remaining Bracket
editFirst round | Semifinals | Finals | |||||||||||
5 | Oakland | 0 | |||||||||||
1 | UIC | 8 | |||||||||||
2 | Wright State | 1 | |||||||||||
1 | UIC | 4 | |||||||||||
3 | Northern Kentucky | 2 | |||||||||||
2 | Wright State | 12 | |||||||||||
1 | UIC | ||||||||||||
2 | Wright State | ||||||||||||
Lower round 1 | Lower final | ||||||||||||
5 | Oakland | 4 | |||||||||||
5 | Oakland | 12 | 2 | Wright State | 12 | ||||||||
3 | Northern Kentucky | 5 | |||||||||||
References
edit- ^ "UIC Crowned #HLBase Champions" (Press release). Horizon League. May 24, 2017. Archived from the original on June 6, 2017. Retrieved June 8, 2017.
- ^ "2017 Division I baseball conference tournaments, automatic qualifiers". NCAA. May 28, 2017. Retrieved September 2, 2017.