2017 Atlantic 10 Conference Baseball Tournament

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2017 Atlantic 10 Conference
Baseball Tournament
Teams7
Format Double-elimination
Finals site
2017 Atlantic 10 Conference baseball standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L PCTW L PCT
VCU  195 .7923522 .614
Rhode Island  176 .7393122 .585
St. Bonaventure  158 .6522622 .542
George Washington  1410 .5833127 .534
Saint Louis  1210 .5453522 .614
No. 16 Davidson  y1311 .5423526 .574
George Mason  1311 .5422633 .441
Saint Joseph's  1212 .5002125 .457
Fordham  1112 .4782724 .529
Dayton  915 .3752035 .364
UMass  816 .3331532 .319
Richmond  617 .2611736 .321
La Salle  420 .1671041 .196
Conference champion
Tournament champion
y Invited to the NCAA Tournament
Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

The 2017 Atlantic 10 Conference Baseball Tournament will take place from May 24 to 27. The top seven regular season finishers of the league's twelve teams will meet in the double-elimination tournament to be held at Billiken Sports Center, the home field of Saint Louis. The winner will earn the conference's automatic bid to the 2017 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament. [1] [2]

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Seeding and format

The tournament will use the same format adopted in 2014, with the top seven finishers from the regular season seeded one through seven. The top seed will receive a single bye while remaining seeds will play on the first day.

Results

 Upper round 1Upper round 2Upper finalFinal
     
 1VCU9
 4George Washington4
 4George Washington6
 5Saint Louis4
 1VCU7
 6Davidson3
 2Rhode Island5
 7George Mason9
 7George Mason3
 6Davidson6
 3St. Bonaventure21VCU44
 6Davidson56Davidson811
 
 Lower round 1Lower round 2Lower round 3Lower final
 
 5Saint Louis9
 5Saint Louis37George Mason65Saint Louis7
 3St. Bonaventure15Saint Louis46Davidson8 (10)
 2Rhode Island2
 2Rhode Island8
 4George Washington4

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References

  1. "2017 Baseball Championship". Atlantic 10 Conference. Retrieved December 9, 2016.
  2. "2017 Division I baseball conference tournaments, automatic qualifiers". NCAA. May 28, 2017. Retrieved September 2, 2017.