2010 Conference USA Baseball Tournament

2010 Conference USA Baseball Tournament
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Classification	Division I
Season	2010
Teams	6
Format	Two groups of round robin followed by a championship game
Site	Cougar Field Houston, Texas
Champions	Southern Mississippi (2nd title)
Winning coach	Scott Berry (1st title)
MVP	Scott Copeland (Southern Mississippi)
Conference USA Baseball Tournament «2009  2011»

The 2010 Conference USA Baseball Tournament was the 2010 postseason college baseball championship of the NCAA Division I Conference USA, held at Cougar Field in Houston, Texas from May 26–May 30, 2010. Southern Miss won the tournament and received Conference USA's automatic bid to the 2010 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.

The tournament format changed from that which had been used since the 2000 tournament. It consisted of six teams split into two three-team pods. Each team played a total of three preliminary games, two against its podmates and one against a team from the opposite pod. The team with the best record in each pod going advanced to a single-game final.^[1]

Regular season results

Team	W	L	Pct	GB	Seed
Rice	17	7	.708	--	1
Southern Miss	14	10	.583	3	2
Memphis	12	12	.500	5	3
Marshall	12	12	.500	5	4
Houston	11	13	.458	6	5
East Carolina	11	13	.458	6	6
UAB	11	13	.458	6	--
UCF	10	14	.417	7	--
Tulane	10	14	.417	7	--

• SMU, Tulsa, and UTEP do not field baseball teams. Tulane, UAB, and UCF did not make the tournament.

Bracket

Houston vs. Marshall in the 2010 C-USA Baseball Tournament

Pod 1 Rice MAR HOU Pod 2 Overall 1 Rice W 18-0^7 W 24-3^7 ECU W 11-3 3-0 4 Marshall L 0-18^7 L 7-11 MEM W 10-7 1-2 5 Houston L 3-24^7 W 11-7 USM L 6-10 1-2

Pod 2 USM MEM ECU Pod 1 Overall 2 Southern Miss W 8-2 L 1-8 HOU W 10-6 2-1 3 Memphis L 2-8 W 3-2 MAR L 7-10 1-2 6 East Carolina W 8-1 L 2-3 Rice L 3-11 1-2

	Finals
	1	Rice	4
	2	Southern Miss	7

^# indicates the number of innings if not 9.

Finish order

Finish Team W L Pct Seed RS RA Diff 1 ^†Southern Miss 3 1 0.750 2 26 20 6 2 ^#Rice 3 1 0.750 1 57 13 44 3 East Carolina 1 2 0.333 6 13 15 -2 4 Memphis 1 2 0.333 3 12 20 -8 5 Marshall 1 2 0.333 4 17 36 -19 6 Houston 1 2 0.333 5 20 41 -21

^† - Winner of the tournament and received an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. ^# - Received an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament.

All-Tournament Team

Position	Player	School
C	Diego Seastrunk	Rice
IF	Rick Hague	Rice
IF	Anthony Rendon	Rice
IF	B.A. Vollmuth	Southern Miss
IF	Taylor Walker	Southern Miss
OF	Michael Fuda	Rice
OF	Chad Mozingo	Rice
OF	Steven Sultzbaugh	Rice
DH	M.P. Cokinos	Houston
P	Scott Copeland	Southern Miss
P	Seth Maness	East Carolina
P	Brennon Martin	Memphis
P	Jared Rogers	Rice
MVP	Scott Copeland	Southern Miss

(*)Denotes Unanimous Selection

References

1. "2010 C-USA Baseball Championship". Conference USA. Archived from the original on 29 May 2010. Retrieved 2010-05-24.

External links

• 2010 C-USA Baseball Championship