2017 Western Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament

The 2017 Western Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament was a postseason baseball tournament for the Western Athletic Conference for the 2017–18 season. It began on May 24 and ended on May 27.[1] The top six regular season finishers of the league's ten teams met in the double-elimination tournament held at Hohokam Stadium, spring training home of the Oakland Athletics in Mesa, Arizona. The winner earned the Western Athletic Conference's automatic bid to the 2017 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.[2][3]

2017 Western Athletic Conference
Baseball Tournament
Teams6
FormatDouble-elimination
Finals site
ChampionsSacramento State (2nd title)
MVPJustin Dillo, Sacramento State
2017 Western Athletic Conference baseball standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T PCT  W L T PCT
Grand Canyon*  ‍†‍‍ 20–4–0 .833  29–25–0 .537
New Mexico State  ‍‍‍ 19–5–0 .792  35–22–0 .614
Cal State Bakersfield  ‍‍‍ 14–10–0 .583  31–24–0 .564
Sacramento State  ‍‍‡‍y 12–12–0 .500  32–29–0 .525
Utah Valley  ‍‍‍ 11–13–0 .458  18–36–0 .333
Northern Colorado  ‍‍‍ 10–14–0 .417  24–30–0 .444
Seattle  ‍‍‍ 8–16–0 .333  20–35–1 .366
Texas–Rio Grande Valley  ‍‍‍ 7–17–0 .292  26–28–0 .481
Chicago State  ‍‍‍ 7–17–0 .292  11–41–0 .212
† – Conference champion
‡ – Tournament champion
y – Invited to the NCAA Tournament

Seeding and format

The top six finishers from the regular season will be seeded based on conference winning percentage. Grand Canyon is ineligible for the tournament due to their transition from Division II.

Bracket
  First round Second round Third Round Semi-Finals Finals
                                                 
Winner's Bracket
  4 Utah Valley 4     1 New Mexico State 4  
  5 Northern Colorado 6     5 Northern Colorado 5    
      5 Northern Colorado 1              
      3 Sacramento State 10              
  3 Sacramento State 11     2 CSU Bakersfield 6          
  6 Seattle 1     3 Sacramento State 10        
        3 Sacramento State 5 -
Loser's Bracket       2 CSU Bakersfield 0 -
  4 Utah Valley 9        
  6 Seattle 11          
      6 Seattle 4        
      2 CSU Bakersfield 10          
            2 CSU Bakersfield 11              
          1 New Mexico State 7              
      2 CSU Bakersfield 8    
    5 Northern Colorado 5  
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References
  1. "2016-17 WAC Championships". Western Athletic Conference. Archived from the original on July 10, 2016. Retrieved February 6, 2016.
  2. "2017 Division I baseball conference tournaments, automatic qualifiers". NCAA. May 28, 2017. Retrieved September 2, 2017.
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2018-03-24. Retrieved 2018-03-23.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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