Teams | 8 |
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Format | Eight-team double-elimination tournament |
Finals site | |
Champions | TCU, Tulane (2nd, 5th title) |
Winning coach | Jim Schlossnagle, Rick Jones (2nd, 5th title) |
MVP | Nathan Southard (Tulane) |
The 2005 Conference USA baseball tournament was the 2005 postseason college baseball championship of the NCAA Division I Conference USA, held at Pete Taylor Park in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, from May 25 through 29, 2005. Both TCU and Tulane were declared co-champions due to inclement weather but Tulane was given the automatic bid to the 2005 NCAA Division I baseball tournament. The tournament consisted of eight teams, with two double-elimination brackets, and a single-game final that was cancelled due to inclement weather. [1]
Team | W | L | T | Pct | GB | Seed |
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Tulane | 24 | 6 | .800 | -- | 1 | |
TCU | 20 | 10 | .667 | 4 | 2 | |
Southern Miss | 20 | 10 | .667 | 4 | 3 | |
East Carolina | 18 | 12 | .600 | 6 | 4 | |
Houston | 16 | 13 | .552 | 7.5 | 5 | |
South Florida | 15 | 14 | .517 | 8.5 | 6 | |
Louisville | 15 | 14 | .517 | 8.5 | 7 | |
UAB | 14 | 16 | .467 | 10 | 8 | |
Charlotte | 13 | 17 | .433 | 11 | -- | |
Cincinnati | 10 | 19 | .344 | 13.5 | -- | |
Saint Louis | 8 | 22 | .267 | 16 | -- | |
Memphis | 5 | 25 | .167 | 19 | -- | |
First round May 25–26 | Second round May 26–27 | Semi-finals May 27–28 | Finals May 29 | ||||||||||||||||
5 | Houston | 5 | |||||||||||||||||
4 | East Carolina | 6 | |||||||||||||||||
4 | East Carolina | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
1 | Tulane | 16 | |||||||||||||||||
8 | UAB | 6 | |||||||||||||||||
1 | Tulane | 8 | |||||||||||||||||
5 | Houston | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
Bracket One | |||||||||||||||||||
1 | Tulane | 10 | |||||||||||||||||
8 | UAB | 5 | |||||||||||||||||
5 | Houston | 7 | 4 | East Carolina | 4 | ||||||||||||||
5 | Houston | 6 | |||||||||||||||||
2 | TCU [lower-alpha 1] | ||||||||||||||||||
7 | Louisville | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
1 | Tulane [lower-alpha 1] | ||||||||||||||||||
2 | TCU | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
3 | Southern Miss | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
2 | TCU | 8 | |||||||||||||||||
6 | USF | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
3 | Southern Miss | 5 | |||||||||||||||||
3 | Southern Miss | 7 | |||||||||||||||||
Bracket Two | |||||||||||||||||||
2 | TCU | 13 | |||||||||||||||||
7 | Louisville | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
6 | USF | 11 | 6 | USF | 3 | ||||||||||||||
3 | Southern Miss | 9 | |||||||||||||||||
Finish | Team | W | L | T | Pct | Seed | Eliminated By |
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1 | Tulane† | 3 | 0 | 1.000 | 1 | ||
1 | TCU# | 3 | 0 | 1.000 | 2 | ||
3 | Southern Miss# | 2 | 2 | 0 | .500 | 3 | TCU |
4 | Houston | 2 | 2 | 0 | .500 | 5 | Tulane |
5 | South Florida | 1 | 2 | 0 | .333 | 6 | Southern Miss |
6 | East Carolina# | 1 | 2 | 0 | .333 | 4 | Houston |
7 | Louisville | 0 | 2 | 0 | .000 | 7 | South Florida |
8 | UAB | 0 | 2 | 0 | .000 | 8 | Houston |
† - Winner of the tournament and received an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. |
Position | Player | School |
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C | Brian Baisley | South Florida |
IF | Brad Emaus | Tulane |
IF | Chad Huffman | TCU |
IF | Dustin Kingsbury | Houston |
IF | Trey Sutton | Southern Mississippi |
OF | Keith Conlon | TCU |
OF | Jason Lowery | Southern Mississippi |
OF | Nathan Southard | Tulane |
DH | Mike Grace | East Carolina |
P | Brian Bogusevic | Tulane |
P | Lance Broadway | TCU |
P | Sam Demel | TCU |
P | Micah Owings | Tulane |
MVP | Nathan Southard | Tulane |
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