2017 Mountain West Conference Baseball Tournament

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2017 Mountain West Conference
Baseball Tournament
Teams4
Format Double-elimination
Finals site
Champions San Diego State  (4th title)
Winning coachMark Martinez (2nd title)
MVPAndrew Martinez (San Diego State)
2017 Mountain West Conference baseball standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L T PCTW L T PCT
New Mexico  1991 .67230271 .526
San Diego St  y20100 .66742210 .667
Fresno State  18120 .60035250 .583
Nevada  13160 .44819360 .345
Air Force  12170 .41427260 .509
San Jose State  10181 .36219351 .355
UNLV  10200 .33320360 .357
Conference champion
Tournament champion
y Invited to the NCAA Tournament
Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

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]

Contents

Format and seeding

The 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

 First roundSemifinalsFinals
               
1New Mexico7 
4Nevada2 
 1New Mexico8 
 2San Diego State9 
2San Diego State18
3Fresno State10 
 2San Diego State15
 3Fresno State1273
4Nevada5 
3Fresno State 157 
 3Fresno State11
 1New Mexico5 

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References

  1. "San Diego State Captures 2017 Mountain West Baseball Title" (Press release). Mountain West Conference. May 28, 2017. Retrieved June 8, 2017.[ permanent dead link ]
  2. "2017 Division I baseball conference tournaments, automatic qualifiers". NCAA. May 28, 2017. Retrieved September 2, 2017.