2022 Ohio Valley Conference baseball tournament

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2022 Ohio Valley Conference
baseball tournament
Teams8
Format Double-elimination
Finals site
Television ESPN+
2022 Ohio Valley Conference baseball standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L PCTW L PCT
Belmont  185 .7833920 .661
Southeast Missouri State  y168 .6673720 .649
Morehead State  1410 .5832727 .500
Eastern Illinois  1212 .5003320 .623
SIU Edwardsville  1112 .4782728 .491
Tennessee Tech  1113 .4582116 .568
Murray State  1113 .4583025 .545
Austin Peay  1014 .4171937 .339
UT Martin  420 .1671134 .244
Tournament champion
y Invited to the NCAA tournament
As of May 10, 2023 [1]
Rankings from D1Baseball

The 2022 Ohio Valley Conference baseball tournament will be held from May 25 through 28. The top eight regular season finishers will meet in the double-elimination tournament, to be held at Wild Health Field in Lexington, Kentucky. The tournament champion will earn the conference's automatic bid to the 2022 NCAA Division I baseball tournament [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 UT Martin (joined in 1992) have never won championships. The Tournament began in 1979.

Contents

Seeding and format

The top eight regular season finishers will be seeded by conference winning percentage. The bottom six seeds will play a single elimination round, with the fifth and eighth seeds facing off while the sixth and seventh seeds play each other. The winners will then play the third and fourth seeds, with the winners meeting the top two seeds in the double-elimination championship round. The final will be a winner-take-all game.

Results

Bracket A

Semifinal Final
4 Eastern Illinois 6
5 SIU Edwardsville 135 SIU Edwardsville8
8 Austin Peay 1

Bracket B

Semifinal Final
3 Morehead State 9
6 Tennessee Tech 96 Tennessee Tech11
7 Murray State 2

Double-elimination round

First round Semi-finals Finals
          
1 Belmont 10
5 SIU Edwardsville 9
1 Belmont8
Winner's bracket
6 Tennessee Tech 3
2 Southeast Missouri State 10
6 Tennessee Tech 11
1 Belmont 4
2 Southeast Missouri State5
5 SIU Edwardsville 6
2 Southeast Missouri State14
2 Southeast Missouri State5
Loser's bracket
6 Tennessee Tech 2

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References

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  2. "2022 OVC Baseball Championship". Ohio Valley Conference. Retrieved May 18, 2022.
  3. "2021-22 OVC Championships". Ohio Valley Conference. Retrieved May 18, 2022.