2020 American Athletic Conference baseball tournament

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2020 American Athletic Conference
baseball tournament
Teams8
Format Double-elimination tournament
Finals site
2020 American Athletic Conference baseball standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L PCTW L PCT
No. 20 Tulane  00 152 .882
Wichita State  00 132 .867
No. 12 UCF  00 153 .833
East Carolina  00 134 .765
UConn  00 85 .615
Memphis  00 107 .588
Cincinnati  00 78 .467
Houston  00 69 .400
South Florida  00 611 .353
Tournament champion
As of March 12, 2020 [1]
Rankings from D1Baseball

The 2020 American Athletic Conference baseball tournament was a baseball tournament scheduled to be held at Spectrum Field in Clearwater, Florida, from May 19 through 24. The winner of the double-elimination tournament would have received the conference's automatic bid to the 2020 NCAA Division I baseball tournament. [2]

The Tournament has been held since 2014, the first year of the rebranding as the American Athletic Conference. Since then, Houston and East Carolina have each won the event twice, while Cincinnati and UConn have each won once.

On March 12, 2020, the NCAA cancelled all winter and spring sports competitions due to the coronavirus pandemic, thus cancelling the tournament. [3]

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References

  1. "2020 Baseball Standings". American Athletic Conference. Retrieved April 12, 2020.
  2. "2019–20 Championship Schedule". The American. Retrieved November 30, 2019.
  3. Osburn, Stacey (March 12, 2020). "NCAA cancels remaining winter and spring championships". NCAA.org. Retrieved March 15, 2020.