2017 Mountain West Conference Baseball Tournament

The 2017 Mountain West Conference Baseball Tournament took place from May 24 through 28 at Santa Ana Star Field in Albuquerque, New Mexico, home field of the conference's regular-season champion New Mexico. The conference's top four teams from the regular season met in a double-elimination tournament. The winner of the tournament, San Diego State, earned the Mountain West Conference's automatic bid to the 2017 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.[1][2]

2017 Mountain West Conference
Baseball Tournament
Teams4
FormatDouble-elimination
Finals site
ChampionsSan Diego State (4th title)
Winning coachMark Martinez (2nd title)
MVPAndrew Martinez, San Diego State
2017 Mountain West Conference baseball standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T PCT  W L T PCT
New Mexico   1991 .672  30271 .526
San Diego St  y 20100 .667  42210 .667
Fresno State   18120 .600  35250 .583
Nevada   13160 .448  19360 .345
Air Force   12170 .414  27260 .509
San Jose State   10181 .362  19351 .355
UNLV   10200 .333  20360 .357
Conference champion
Tournament champion
y Invited to the NCAA Tournament
Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

Format and seeding

The conference's top four teams were seeded based on winning percentage during the round-robin regular season schedule. The tournament opened with the top seed playing the lowest seeded team, and the second-seeded team playing the third seed, followed by double-elimination play until the champion was determined.

Bracket

  First round Semifinals Finals
                             
1 New Mexico 7  
4 Nevada 2  
  1 New Mexico 8  
  2 San Diego State 9  
2 San Diego State 18
3 Fresno State 10  
  2 San Diego State 1 5
  3 Fresno State 127 3
4 Nevada 5  
3 Fresno State 157  
  3 Fresno State 11
  1 New Mexico 5  

References

  1. "San Diego State Captures 2017 Mountain West Baseball Title" (Press release). Mountain West Conference. May 28, 2017. Retrieved June 8, 2017.
  2. "2017 Division I baseball conference tournaments, automatic qualifiers". NCAA. May 28, 2017. Retrieved September 2, 2017.
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