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.

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

Pod 1Pod 2

Results Game Winning team Score Losing team 1 Southern Miss 8–2 Memphis 2 Rice 11–3 East Carolina 3 Houston 11–7 Marshall 4 East Carolina 8–1 Southern Miss 5 Marshall 10–7 Memphis 6 Rice 24–3 Houston 7 Memphis 3–2 East Carolina 8 Rice 18–0 Marshall 9 Southern Miss 10–6 Houston 10 Southern Miss 7–4 Rice

Finish order Finish Team W L Pct Seed RS RA Diff1 †Southern Miss 3 1 0.750 2 26 20 62 #Rice 3 1 0.750 1 57 13 443 East Carolina 1 2 0.333 6 13 15 -24 Memphis 1 2 0.333 3 12 20 -85 Marshall 1 2 0.333 4 17 36 -196 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

External links 2010 C-USA Baseball Championship