2017 Mountain West Conference baseball tournament
The 2017 Mountain West Conference baseball tournament took place from May 24 through 28 at Santa Ana Star Field in Albuquerque, New Mexico, home field of the conference's regular-season champion New Mexico. The conference's top four teams from the regular season met in a double-elimination tournament. The winner of the tournament, San Diego State, earned the Mountain West Conference's automatic bid to the 2017 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.[1][2]
Teams | 4 |
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Format | Double-elimination |
Finals site | |
Champions | San Diego State (4th title) |
Winning coach | Mark Martinez (2nd title) |
MVP | Andrew Martinez (San Diego State) |
Conf | Overall | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Team | W | L | T | PCT | W | L | T | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
New Mexico † | 19 | – | 9 | – | 1 | .672 | 30 | – | 27 | – | 1 | .526 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
San Diego St‡ y | 20 | – | 10 | – | 0 | .667 | 42 | – | 21 | – | 0 | .667 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fresno State | 18 | – | 12 | – | 0 | .600 | 35 | – | 25 | – | 0 | .583 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nevada | 13 | – | 16 | – | 0 | .448 | 19 | – | 36 | – | 0 | .345 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Air Force | 12 | – | 17 | – | 0 | .414 | 27 | – | 26 | – | 0 | .509 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
San Jose State | 10 | – | 18 | – | 1 | .362 | 19 | – | 35 | – | 1 | .355 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
UNLV | 10 | – | 20 | – | 0 | .333 | 20 | – | 36 | – | 0 | .357 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
† – Conference champion ‡ – Tournament champion y – Invited to the NCAA tournament Rankings from Collegiate Baseball |
Format and seeding
editThe conference's top four teams were seeded based on winning percentage during the round-robin regular season schedule. The tournament opened with the top seed playing the lowest seeded team, and the second-seeded team playing the third seed, followed by double-elimination play until the champion was determined.
Bracket
editUpper round 1 | Upper final | Final | |||||||||||
1 | New Mexico | 7 | |||||||||||
4 | Nevada | 2 | |||||||||||
1 | New Mexico | 8 | |||||||||||
2 | San Diego State | 9 | |||||||||||
2 | San Diego State | 18 | |||||||||||
3 | Fresno State | 10 | |||||||||||
2 | San Diego State | ||||||||||||
3 | Fresno State | ||||||||||||
Lower round 1 | Lower final | ||||||||||||
3 | Fresno State | 11 | |||||||||||
4 | Nevada | 5 | 1 | New Mexico | 5 | ||||||||
3 | Fresno State | 157 | |||||||||||
References
edit- ^ "San Diego State Captures 2017 Mountain West Baseball Title" (Press release). Mountain West Conference. May 28, 2017. Retrieved June 8, 2017.[permanent dead link ]
- ^ "2017 Division I baseball conference tournaments, automatic qualifiers". NCAA. May 28, 2017. Retrieved September 2, 2017.