The 2005 Conference USA baseball tournament was the 2005 postseason college baseball championship of the NCAA Division I Conference USA, held at Pete Taylor Park in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, from May 25 through 29, 2005. Both TCU and Tulane were declared co-champions due to inclement weather but Tulane was given the automatic bid to the 2005 NCAA Division I baseball tournament. The tournament consisted of eight teams, with two double-elimination brackets, and a single-game final that was cancelled due to inclement weather.
Regular season results Team W L T Pct GB Seed Tulane 24 6 .800 -- 1 TCU 20 10 .667 4 2 Southern Miss 20 10 .667 4 3 East Carolina 18 12 .600 6 4 Houston 16 13 .552 7.5 5 South Florida 15 14 .517 8.5 6 Louisville 15 14 .517 8.5 7 UAB 14 16 .467 10 8 Charlotte 13 17 .433 11 -- Cincinnati 10 19 .344 13.5 -- Saint Louis 8 22 .267 16 -- Memphis 5 25 .167 19 --
Records listed are conference play only. Marquette and DePaul did not field baseball teams. Charlotte, Cincinnati, Saint Louis, and Memphis did not make the tournament.
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 Tulane† 3 0 1.000 1 1 TCU# 3 0 1.000 2 3 Southern Miss# 2 2 0 .500 3 TCU4 Houston 2 2 0 .500 5 Tulane5 South Florida 1 2 0 .333 6 Southern Miss6 East Carolina# 1 2 0 .333 4 Houston7 Louisville 0 2 0 .000 7 South Florida8 UAB 0 2 0 .000 8 Houston† - 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 Brian Baisley South Florida IF Brad Emaus Tulane IF Chad Huffman TCU IF Dustin Kingsbury Houston IF Trey Sutton Southern Mississippi OF Keith Conlon TCU OF Jason Lowery Southern Mississippi OF Nathan Southard Tulane DH Mike Grace East Carolina P Brian Bogusevic Tulane P Lance Broadway TCU P Sam Demel TCU P Micah Owings Tulane MVP Nathan Southard Tulane
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