Year: | 2022 |
Conference: | Sun Belt Conference |
Teams: | 10 |
Format: | Double-elimination |
Ballpark: | Riverwalk Stadium |
City: | Montgomery, Alabama |
Champions: | Louisiana |
Television: | ESPN+ |
The 2022 Sun Belt Conference baseball tournament will be held at Riverwalk Stadium in Montgomery, Alabama from May 24 to May 29, 2022. The tournament will again use a double-elimination format. The winner of the tournament will earn the Sun Belt Conference's automatic bid to the 2022 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.[1]
In a change from previous years, the top ten teams (based on conference results) from the conference earn invites to the tournament. The teams will be seeded based on conference winning percentage, with the bottom four seeds competing in a play-in round. The remaining eight teams will then play a two bracket, double-elimination tournament. The winner of each bracket will play a championship final.[2]
All games played on Tuesday, May 24 are single elimination. The lowerseeded first round winner will advance to play the No. 1 seed, while the higher-seeded first round winner will face the No. 2 seed.
The Sun Belt Conference announced on Wednesday, May 25 that the tournament would go from a double elimination bracket to a single elimination bracket due to significant weather delay on Wednesday, May 25.[3]