2017 Horizon League Baseball Tournament
The 2017 Horizon League Baseball Tournament was held from May 24 through 27 at Les Miller Field at Curtis Granderson Stadium in Chicago, home to conference regular-season champion UIC. The top six finishers of the league's seven teams met in the double-elimination tournament. UIC won the tournament to earn the conference's automatic bid to the 2017 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.[1][2]
Teams | 6 |
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Format | Double-elimination |
Finals site | |
Champions | UIC (5th title) |
Winning coach | Mike Dee (5th title) |
MVP | David Cronin, UIC |
2017 Horizon League baseball standings | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Team | W | L | PCT | W | L | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
UIC †‡y | 22 | – | 8 | .733 | 39 | – | 17 | .696 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wright State | 21 | – | 9 | .700 | 38 | – | 21 | .644 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Northern Kentucky | 17 | – | 13 | .567 | 25 | – | 33 | .431 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Valparaiso | 13 | – | 15 | .464 | 24 | – | 29 | .453 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Oakland | 11 | – | 19 | .367 | 17 | – | 40 | .298 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Milwaukee | 10 | – | 18 | .357 | 22 | – | 32 | .407 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Youngstown State | 9 | – | 21 | .300 | 15 | – | 40 | .273 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
† – Conference champion ‡ – Tournament champion y – Invited to the NCAA Tournament Rankings from Collegiate Baseball |
Seeding and format
The league's teams were seeded 1 through 7 based on winning percentage in conference play. The last-place team did not qualify for the tournament, and the remaining six teams played a double-elimination tournament.
Bracket
Remaining Bracket
First Round | Semifinals | Finals | ||||||||||||
5 | Oakland | 0 | ||||||||||||
1 | UIC | 8 | ||||||||||||
2 | Wright State | 1 | ||||||||||||
1 | UIC | 4 | ||||||||||||
3 | Northern Kentucky | 2 | ||||||||||||
2 | Wright State | 12 | ||||||||||||
1 | UIC | 4 | - | |||||||||||
2 | Wright State | 2 | - | |||||||||||
5 | Oakland | 12 | ||||||||||||
3 | Northern Kentucky | 5 | ||||||||||||
5 | Oakland | 4 | ||||||||||||
2 | Wright State | 12 | ||||||||||||
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References
- "UIC Crowned #HLBase Champions" (Press release). Horizon League. May 24, 2017. Archived from the original on June 6, 2017. Retrieved June 8, 2017.
- "2017 Division I baseball conference tournaments, automatic qualifiers". NCAA. May 28, 2017. Retrieved September 2, 2017.
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