| Year: | 2014 |
| Conference: | Conference USA |
| Teams: | 8 |
| Format: | Double elimination |
| Ballpark: | Pete Taylor Park |
| City: | Hattiesburg, MS |
| Titlecount: | 6th |
| Coach: | Wayne Graham |
| Coachcount: | 6th |
| Mvp: | Michael Aquino |
| Mvpteam: | Rice |
| Television: | CUSADN (first round–semifinals) CBSSN (championship game) |
The 2014 Conference USA baseball tournament will be held from May 21 through 25 at Pete Taylor Park in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. The annual tournament determines the conference champion of the Division I Conference USA for college baseball. The tournament champion will receive the league's automatic bid to the 2014 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.[1] [2] [3] This is the last of 19 athletic championship events held by the conference in the 2013–14 academic year.[4]
The tournament was established in 1996, Conference USA's first season of play. Tulane and Rice have won the most championships, with five. Among current, returning teams, only Marshall has never won a title. The conference adds eight new teams for 2014.
The top eight finishers from the regular season were seeded one through eight. The tournament returned to a double-elimination format, previously used from 1996 through 2010.[5]
| Team | W | L | Pct | GB | Seed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 | 7 | – | 1 | |||
| 20 | 10 | 3 | 2 | |||
| 19 | 11 | 4 | 3 | |||
| 17 | 13 | 6 | 4 | |||
| 17 | 13 | 6 | 5 | |||
| 16 | 14 | 7 | 6 | |||
| 16 | 14 | 7 | 7 | |||
| 16 | 14 | 7 | 8 | |||
| 14 | 16 | 9 | – | |||
| 10 | 18 | 12 | – | |||
| 10 | 19 | 12.5 | – | |||
| 10 | 19 | 12.5 | – | |||
| 5 | 25 | 18 | – |
| G# | Game[6] | Date | Kickoff (CT) | TV | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First round | |||||
| 1 | Old Dominion vs Middle Tennessee | May 21, 2014 | 9:00 am | CUSADN | |
| 2 | FIU vs Rice | May 21, 2014 | 12:30 pm | CUSADN | |
| 3 | UTSA vs UAB | May 21, 2014 | 4:00 pm | CUSADN | |
| 4 | East Carolina vs Southern Miss | May 21, 2014 | 7:30 pm | CUSADN | |
| 5 | Old Dominion vs FIU | May 22, 2014 | 9:00 am | CUSADN | |
| 6 | Southern Miss vs UAB | May 22, 2014 | 12:30 pm | CUSADN | |
| Second round | |||||
| 7 | Middle Tennessee vs Rice | May 22, 2014 | 4:00 pm | CUSADN | |
| 8 | UTSA vs East Carolina | May 22, 2014 | 7:30 pm | CUSADN | |
| 9 | Middle Tennessee vs Old Dominion | May 23, 2014 | 3:00 pm | CUSADN | |
| 10 | Southern Miss vs East Carolina | May 23, 2014 | 6:30 pm | CUSADN | |
| Semifinals | |||||
| 11 | Rice vs Old Dominion | May 24, 2014 | 9:00 am | CUSADN | |
| 12 | UTSA vs Southern Miss | May 24, 2014 | 12:30 pm | CUSADN | |
| Finals | |||||
| 13 | Rice vs UTSA | May 25, 2014 | 1:00 pm | CBSSN | |
Game 11 will have a necessary if winner of Game 9 also wins Game 11. If so the game will be played on May 24 at 4:00 pm.
Game 12 will have a necessary if winner of Game 10 also wins Game 11. If so the game will be played on May 24 at 7:30 pm.
The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team. Rice outfielder Michael Aquino, one of five Owls selected, was named the tournament's Most Valuable Player.
| Pos. | Name | Team | |
|---|---|---|---|
| C | UTSA | ||
| IF | Nick Dawson | Southern Miss | |
| IF | Skyler Ewing | Rice | |
| IF | Ford Stainback | Rice | |
| IF | Tyler Urps | Old Dominion | |
| OF | Michael Aquino | Rice | |
| OF | Nick Walker | Old Dominion | |
| OF | John Welborn | UTSA | |
| DH | Chase McDowell | Rice | |
| P | UTSA | ||
| P | Blake Fox | Rice | |
| P | Cameron Giannini | Southern Miss | |
| P | Brock Hartson | UTSA |