2011 Mountain West Conference baseball tournament

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2011 Mountain West Conference
baseball tournament
Teams6
Format Double-elimination
Finals site
Champions New Mexico  (1st title)
MVP D.J. Peterson (New Mexico)
Television Mountiain/CBS Sports Network

The 2011 Mountain West Conference baseball tournament took place from May 24 through 28 The top six regular season finishers of the league's seven teams met in the double-elimination tournament held at San Diego State's Tony Gwynn Stadium. Sixth seeded New Mexico won their first Mountain West Conference Baseball Championship with a championship game score of 4–2 and earned the conference's automatic bid to the 2011 NCAA Division I baseball tournament. [1] [2]

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Seeding

2011 Mountain West Conference baseball standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L PCTW L PCT
No. 17 TCU  y203 .8704319 .694
Utah  167 .6962921 .580
BYU  1112 .4783127 .534
San Diego State  1113 .4582236 .379
UNLV  1013 .4353325 .569
New Mexico  y1014 .4172041 .328
Air Force  420 .1671936 .345
Conference champion
Tournament champion
y Invited to the 2011 NCAA Division I baseball tournament
As of June 30, 2011 [3]
Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

The top six finishers from the regular season were seeded one through six based on conference winning percentage only. Only six teams participate, so Air Force was not in the field.

TeamWLPct.GBSeed
TCU 203.8701
Utah 167.69642
BYU 1112.47893
San Diego State 1113.4589.54
UNLV 1013.435105
New Mexico 1014.41710.56
Air Force 420.16716.5

Results

Upper round 1Upper round 2Upper finalFinal
1TCU3
3BYU46New Mexico4
6New Mexico56New Mexico6
2Utah5
2Utah7
4San Diego State44San Diego State3
5UNLV3
6New Mexico4
1TCU2
Lower round 1Lower round 2Lower round 3Lower final
2Utah1
1TCU121TCU14
4San Diego State23BYU5
3BYU53BYU8
5UNLV1

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All-Tournament Team

Pos.NameClassTeam
CJosh ElanderSOTCU
1BJoe WeikSRTCU
2BDane NielsenSRBYU
3BD. J. Peterson (MVP)FRNew Mexico
3BTroy NeilsenFRUtah
LFLuke CampbellJRNew Mexico
CFCody SmithFRSan Diego State
CFKyle Von TungelnSOTCU
DHJacob NelsonSONew Mexico
RHPAustin HouseSONew Mexico
RPBobby MaresSONew Mexico

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