2017 Ohio Valley Conference Baseball Tournament

The 2017 Ohio Valley Conference Baseball Tournament will be held from May 24 through 28. The top six regular season finishers will meet in the double-elimination tournament, to be held at Choccolocco Park in Oxford, Alabama. The tournament champion will earn the conference's automatic bid to the 2017 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.[1][2][3] Among current members, Austin Peay has won the most championships, with six, while Belmont (joined in 2012), SIU Edwardsville (joined in 2008),and Tennessee–Martin (joined in 1992) have never won championships. The Tournament began in 1979.

2017 Ohio Valley Conference
Baseball Tournament
Teams6
FormatDouble-elimination
Finals site
MVP,
2017 Ohio Valley Conference baseball standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L PCT  W L PCT
Tennessee Tech  ‍†‍‡‍y 23–7 .767  41–21 .661
Morehead State  ‍‍‍ 18–11 .621  36–23 .610
Belmont  ‍‍‍ 17–13 .567  31–29 .517
Jacksonville State  ‍‍‍ 17–13 .567  30–26 .536
SE Missouri State  ‍‍‍ 16–14 .533  29–26 .527
Murray State  ‍‍‍ 15–15 .500  29–30 .492
Austin Peay  ‍‍‍ 13–16 .448  28–30 .483
Eastern Illinois  ‍‍‍ 12–18 .400  21–35 .375
Tennessee–Martin  ‍‍‍ 12–18 .400  25–30 .455
SIU Edwardsville  ‍‍‍ 11–19 .367  23–29 .442
Eastern Kentucky  ‍‍‍ 10–20 .333  24–32 .429
† – Conference champion
‡ – Tournament champion
y – Invited to the NCAA Tournament
Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

Seeding and format

The top six regular season finishers will be seeded by conference winning percentage. Teams will then play a double-elimination tournament, with the top two seeds receiving a single bye.













Results
  First Round     Second Round     Third Round     Semifinals     Finals
                                                 
  Winner's Bracket
    1 Tennessee Tech 14  
      5 Southeast Missouri State 9    
  4 Jacksonville State 10          
  5 Southeast Missouri 13        
      1 Tennessee Tech 8            
      2 Morehead State 6              
  2 Morehead State 9              
  7 Austin Peay 4                
      2 Morehead State 12          
      6 Murray State 6        
  3 Belmont 3          
  6 Murray State 9         1 Tennessee Tech 16 -
      3 Belmont 4 -
  Loser's Bracket      
  4 Jacksonville State 7        
  7 Austin Peay 8     3 Belmont 6        
    7 Austin Peay 1          
      3 Belmont 5        
      6 Murray State 4     2 Morehead State 6    
  5 Southeast Missouri State 5         3 Belmont 11  
  6 Murray State 8  

References
  1. "2017 OVC Baseball Championship". Ohio Valley Conference. Retrieved February 10, 2017.
  2. "2016-17 OVC Championships". Ohio Valley Conference. Retrieved February 10, 2017.
  3. "2017 Division I baseball conference tournaments, automatic qualifiers". NCAA. May 28, 2017. Retrieved September 2, 2017.
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