The 2026 American Conference baseball tournament was held at BayCare Ballpark in Clearwater, Florida from May 20 through May 24. The event, which was held at the end of the conference regular season, determined the champion of the American Conference for the 2026 season. The winner of the conference tournament, East Carolina, received the conference's automatic bid to the 2026 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.
This was the first conference tournament under the American Conference name. In July 2025, the conference dropped the word "Athletic" from its name.
Format and seeding The top eight American baseball teams participated in the tournament, with the bottom four seeds playing in a single-elimination play-in round. The remaining teams then played a six-team double-elimination tournament, with the top two seeds receiving byes into the third round, and the third and fourth placed teams playing the play-in round winners in the second round. The are the defending champions, having won the 2025 edition of the tournament.
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Schedule GameTime*Matchup#ScoreNotes Wednesday, May 20 1 1:00pm No. 6 Florida Atlantic vs No. 7 Wichita State 2–3 Florida Atlantic eliminated 2 5:00pm No. 5 Memphis vs No. 8 Charlotte 13–9 Charlotte eliminated Thursday, May 21 3 1:00pm No. 3 Rice vs No. 7 Wichita State 5–4 4 5:25pm No. 4 UAB vs No. 5 Memphis 3–7 Friday, May 22 5 9:00am No. 2 East Carolina vs No. 3 Rice 4–3 6 12:50pm No. 1 UTSA vs No. 5 Memphis 4–0 7 4:30pm No. 4 UAB vs No. 3 Rice 9–6 Rice eliminated 8 9:07pm No. 7 Wichita State vs No. 5 Memphis 6–4 Memphis eliminated Saturday, May 23 9 10:00am No. 2 East Carolina vs No. 1 UTSA 2–4 10 2:05pm No. 4 UAB vs No. 7 Wichita State 12–14 UAB eliminated 11 7:10pm No. 7 Wichita State vs No. 2 East Carolina 3–138 Wichita State eliminated Championship – Sunday, May 24 12 12:00pm No. 1 UTSA vs No. 2 East Carolina 0–1 Championship game *Game times in EDT. # – Rankings denote tournament seed.
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