The 2015 American Athletic Conference baseball tournament was held at Bright House Field in Clearwater, Florida, from May 19 through 24. The event, held at the end of the conference regular season, determined the champion of the American Athletic Conference for the 2015 season. East Carolina claimed their first tournament championship and earned the conference's automatic bid to the 2015 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.
Format and seeding All eight baseball teams in The American were seeded based on their records in conference play. The tournament used a two bracket double-elimination format, leading to a single championship game between the winners of each bracket.
Team W L Pct. GB Seed Tiebreaker Houston 16 8 – 1 East Carolina 15 9 1 2 Tulane 13 11 3 3 2–1 vs. South Florida South Florida 13 11 3 4 1–2 vs. Tulane Memphis 12 12 4 5 Connecticut 11 13 5 6 UCF 10 14 6 7 Cincinnati 6 18 10 8
Bracket
All-Tournament Team The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team. Pos Name School P Joe Ingle East Carolina P Andrew Lantrip Houston IF Vinny Siena Connecticut IF Hunter Allen East Carolina IF Connor Wong Houston IF Brandon Montgomery Memphis OF Luke Lowery East Carolina OF Corey Julks Houston OF Darien Tubbs Memphis C Ian Rice Houston UTY Reid Love East Carolina DH Joe DeRoche-Duffin Connecticut
Most Outstanding Player Hunter Allen was named Tournament Most Outstanding Player. Allen, a shortstop for East Carolina, was 9 for 18 over the course of the event, scoring 6 runs. He was 3 for 5 and scored 2 runs in the final game.
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