2012 Mountain West Conference baseball tournament
| Teams | 4 |
|---|---|
| Format | Double-elimination |
| Finals site | |
| Champions | New Mexico (2nd title) |
| Television | Mountiain/CBS Sports Network |
The 2012 Mountain West Conference baseball tournament took place from May 24 through 26. The top four regular season finishers of the league's five teams met in the double-elimination tournament held at University of Nevada, Las Vegas's Earl Wilson Stadium. New Mexico won their second Mountain West Conference Baseball Championship by a score of 22–3 and earned the conference's automatic bid to the 2012 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.[1]
Seeding
[edit]| Conf | Overall | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Team | W | L | PCT | W | L | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| New Mexico †‡y | 18 | – | 6 | .750 | 36 | – | 19 | .655 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| TCU †y | 18 | – | 6 | .750 | 36 | – | 22 | .621 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| San Diego State | 12 | – | 12 | .500 | 26 | – | 34 | .433 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| UNLV | 7 | – | 17 | .292 | 26 | – | 31 | .456 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Air Force | 5 | – | 19 | .208 | 14 | – | 39 | .264 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| † – Conference champion ‡ – Tournament champion y – Invited to the 2012 NCAA Division I baseball tournament As of May 27, 2012[2] Rankings from Coaches' Poll | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The top four finishers from the home and home, round robin regular season will be seeded one through four.
| Team | W | L | Pct. | GB | Seed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico | 18 | 6 | .750 | – | 1 |
| TCU | 18 | 6 | .750 | – | 2 |
| San Diego State | 12 | 12 | .500 | 6 | 3 |
| UNLV | 7 | 17 | .292 | 11 | 4 |
| Air Force | 5 | 19 | .208 | 13 | – |
Results
[edit]| First round | Semi-finals | Finals | |||||||||||
| 1 | New Mexico | 13 | |||||||||||
| 4 | UNLV | 0 | |||||||||||
| 1 | New Mexico | 5 | |||||||||||
| 2 | TCU | 2 | |||||||||||
| 2 | TCU | 16 | |||||||||||
| 3 | San Diego State | 15 | |||||||||||
| 1 | New Mexico | ||||||||||||
| 3 | San Diego State | ||||||||||||
| Lower round 1 | Lower final | ||||||||||||
| 2 | TCU | 11 | |||||||||||
| 3 | San Diego State | 15 | 3 | San Diego State | 12 | ||||||||
| 4 | UNLV | 9 | |||||||||||
References
[edit]- ^ "Conference Championship Central". ncaa.com. Archived from the original on May 18, 2012. Retrieved May 31, 2012.
- ^ "Mountain West Standings". themwc.com. Retrieved June 1, 2012.
- ^ "2012 MWC Baseball Championship". themwc.com. Archived from the original on March 1, 2012. Retrieved June 1, 2012.