The 2005 Mountain West Conference baseball tournament took place from May 23 through 27. All six of the league's teams met in the double-elimination tournament held at University of Utah's Franklin Covey Field. Top seeded UNLV won their third straight and third overall Mountain West Conference Baseball Championship with a championship game score of 7–4 and earned the conference's automatic bid to the 2005 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.
Seeding The teams were seeded based on regular season conference winning percentage only. Team W L Pct. GB Seed 23 7 .767 21 9 .700 17 13 .567 15 15 .500 10 20 .333 4 26 .133
Results
All-Tournament Team Name Class POS Team Ryan Chambers Sr. OF BYU Dave Horlacher Jr. P BYU Chris Carlson So. OF New Mexico Quintin Berry So. OF San Diego State Lance Zawadzki So. 2B San Diego State Ryan Bird Jr. OF UNLV Chris Bonnell So. 1B UNLV Matt Luca Jr. P UNLV J. C. Sibley Sr. OF UNLV Josh Cooper Jr. P Utah Apana Nakayama Jr. DH BYU
Most Valuable Player Matt Wagner, a pitcher for the champion UNLV Rebels, was named the tournament Most Valuable Player.
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