2017 Ohio Valley Conference Baseball Tournament

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2017 Ohio Valley Conference
Baseball Tournament
Teams6
Format Double-elimination
Finals site
2017 Ohio Valley Conference baseball standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L PCTW L PCT
Tennessee Tech  y237 .7674121 .661
Morehead State  1811 .6213623 .610
Belmont  1713 .5673129 .517
Jacksonville State  1713 .5673026 .536
SE Missouri State  1614 .5332926 .527
Murray State  1515 .5002930 .492
Austin Peay  1316 .4482830 .483
Eastern Illinois  1218 .4002135 .375
Tennessee–Martin  1218 .4002530 .455
SIU Edwardsville  1119 .3672329 .442
Eastern Kentucky  1020 .3332432 .429
Conference champion
Tournament champion
y Invited to the NCAA Tournament
Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

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.

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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 1Upper round 2Upper finalFinal
     
 1Tennessee Tech14
 5Southeast Missouri State9
 4Jacksonville State10
 5Southeast Missouri13
 1Tennessee Tech8
 2Morehead State6
 2Morehead State9
 7Austin Peay4
 2Morehead State12
 6Murray State6
 3Belmont31Tennessee Tech16-
 6Murray State93Belmont4-
 
 Lower round 1Lower round 2Lower round 3Lower final
 
 3Belmont6
 4Jacksonville State77Austin Peay12Morehead State6
 7Austin Peay83Belmont53Belmont11
 6Murray State4
 5Southeast Missouri State5
 6Murray State 8

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