2017 Ohio Valley Conference baseball tournament

2017 Ohio Valley Conference
baseball tournament
Teams	6
Format	Double-elimination
Finals site	Choccolocco Park; Oxford, Alabama;
	← 2016; baseball tournament; 2018 →;

The 2017 Ohio Valley Conference baseball tournament will be held from May 24 through 28. The top six regular season finishers will meet in the double-elimination tournament, to be held at Choccolocco Park in Oxford, Alabama. The tournament champion will earn the conference's automatic bid to the 2017 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.^[1]^[2]^[3] Among current members, Austin Peay has won the most championships, with six, while Belmont (joined in 2012), SIU Edwardsville (joined in 2008),and Tennessee–Martin (joined in 1992) have never won championships. The Tournament began in 1979.

2017 Ohio Valley Conference baseball standings
v t e	Conf				Overall
Team	W		L	PCT	W		L	PCT
Tennessee Tech ‍†‍‡‍^y	23	–	7	.767	41	–	21	.661
Morehead State ‍‍‍	18	–	11	.621	36	–	23	.610
Belmont ‍‍‍	17	–	13	.567	31	–	29	.517
Jacksonville State ‍‍‍	17	–	13	.567	30	–	26	.536
SE Missouri State ‍‍‍	16	–	14	.533	29	–	26	.527
Murray State ‍‍‍	15	–	15	.500	29	–	30	.492
Austin Peay ‍‍‍	13	–	16	.448	28	–	30	.483
Eastern Illinois ‍‍‍	12	–	18	.400	21	–	35	.375
Tennessee–Martin ‍‍‍	12	–	18	.400	25	–	30	.455
SIU Edwardsville ‍‍‍	11	–	19	.367	23	–	29	.442
Eastern Kentucky ‍‍‍	10	–	20	.333	24	–	32	.429

† – Conference champion ‡ – Tournament champion y – Invited to the NCAA tournament Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

Seeding and format

The top six regular season finishers will be seeded by conference winning percentage. Teams will then play a double-elimination tournament, with the top two seeds receiving a single bye.

Results


Upper round 1			Upper round 2			Upper final						Final



			1	Tennessee Tech	14

			5	Southeast Missouri State	9
4	Jacksonville State	10

5	Southeast Missouri	13
						1	Tennessee Tech	8

						2	Morehead State	6
2	Morehead State	9

7	Austin Peay	4
			2	Morehead State	12

			6	Murray State	6
3	Belmont	3

6	Murray State	9
												1	Tennessee Tech	16	-

												3	Belmont	4	-

Lower round 1			Lower round 2			Lower round 3			Lower final



			3	Belmont	6

4	Jacksonville State	7	7	Austin Peay	1				2	Morehead State	6

7	Austin Peay	8				3	Belmont	5	3	Belmont	11

						6	Murray State	4

			5	Southeast Missouri State	5

			6	Murray State	8

References

^ "2017 OVC Baseball Championship". Ohio Valley Conference. Retrieved February 10, 2017.
^ "2016-17 OVC Championships". Ohio Valley Conference. Retrieved February 10, 2017.
^ "2017 Division I baseball conference tournaments, automatic qualifiers". NCAA. May 28, 2017. Retrieved September 2, 2017.

[1] "2017 OVC Baseball Championship". Ohio Valley Conference. Retrieved February 10, 2017.

[2] "2016-17 OVC Championships". Ohio Valley Conference. Retrieved February 10, 2017.

[3] "2017 Division I baseball conference tournaments, automatic qualifiers". NCAA. May 28, 2017. Retrieved September 2, 2017.

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