The 2006 Conference USA baseball tournament was the 2006 postseason college baseball championship of the NCAA Division I Conference USA, held at Reckling Park in Houston, Texas, from May 24–May 28, 2006. Rice won the tournament in its first year as a member of the conference, and received Conference USA's automatic bid to the 2006 NCAA Division I baseball tournament. The tournament consisted of eight teams, with two double-elimination brackets, and a single-game final.
Regular season results Team W L T Pct GB Seed Rice 22 2 .917 -- 1 Houston 18 6 .750 4 2 Tulane 15 9 .625 7 3 Memphis 13 11 .542 9 4 Southern Miss 13 11 .542 9 5 East Carolina 10 14 .417 12 6 Marshall 6 18 .250 16 7 UAB 6 18 .250 16 8 UCF 5 19 .208 17 --
Records listed are conference play only. SMU, Tulsa, and UTEP did not field baseball teams. UCF did not qualify for tournament play.
Bracket
Bold indicates the winner of the game. Italics indicate that the team was eliminated from the tournament.
Finish order Finish Team W L T Pct Seed Eliminated By1 Rice† 4 0 0 .1000 1 2 Houston# 3 1 0 .750 2 Rice3 Memphis 2 2 0 .500 4 Rice4 Tulane# 2 2 0 .500 3 Houston5 Southern Miss# 1 2 0 .333 5 Memphis6 East Carolina 1 2 0 .333 6 Tulane7 UAB 0 2 0 .000 8 Rice8 Marshall 0 2 0 .000 7 Tulane† - 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 Ty Wallace Tulane IF Greg Buchanan Rice IF Isa Garcia Houston IF Michael Murray Memphis IF Joe Savery Rice OF Jordan Dodson Rice OF Will Petersen Memphis OF Jake Stewart Houston DH/UT Brad Lincoln Houston P Bobby Bell Rice P Bryce Cox Rice P Luis Flores Houston P Shane Mathews East Carolina MVP Joe Savery Rice
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