Sun belt baseball bracket

The Sun Belt Conference Baseball Tournament is the conference championship tournament in baseball for the Sun Belt Conference. The winner of the tournament receives the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament. After Coastal Carolina University hosts the competition in Conway, South Carolina in , the tournament will move to a neutral site, Riverwalk Stadium in Montgomery, AL, from to ^[1]

Tournament[edit]

The Sun Belt Conference Baseball Tournament is a ten team double-elimination tournament held annually at various sites in the Sun Belt Conference region. The bottom four seeds play a one round single elimination play in game. The six teams with the best conference record at the end of the regular season earn automatic berths in the tournament. After the play-in round, the remaining eight teams will play 2 four team double-elimination brackets with a single elimination championship game between the bracket winners. The division winner with the best conference record will be seeded #1 and will play the lowest remaining seed from the play-in round. The winner of the other division will receive the #2 seed (regardless of overall conference ranking) and will play the higher seeded play-in game winner. The champion of the competition receives an automatic bid to the NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.^[2]

History[edit]

The tournament started in as a four team double-elimination tournament.

In the tournament expanded to include six teams but still remained double-elimination.

The tournament expanded again in and included seven teams.

In the conference was divided into divisions and the top two teams in each division made the tournament, returning it to a four team double-elimination format. It remained that way through

In the conference retained the division format but expanded the tournament to include the top four teams in each division, making the tournament an eight team double-elimination tournament.

In , the conference returned to the a four team double-elimination format.

The tournament format was changed again in when it expanded to include the top three teams in each division, now making it a six team double-elimination tournament. In , the conference dropped the division format but kept the tournament format as a six team double-elimination tournament through

In , the tournament expanded to an eight team double-elimination format. The format was a double bracket round robin in

In , the Conference expanded the field to 10 teams, with the bottom four seeds playing a single-elimination play-in round before the standard eight team double-elimination bracket.^[3]

Champions[edit]

By Year[edit]

By school[edit]

As of May 1, , there are 12 schools in the conference that competes in baseball.

Current members[edit]

Former members[edit]

External links[edit]

References[edit]

The Sun Belt Conference Baseball Tournament is scheduled to take place May in Montgomery, Alabama. 

The Sun Belt Conference tournament will begin with a round-robin pool play format, with the top team from each of the four pools advancing to Saturday’s semifinals. 

The tournament concludes with the championship game at 1 p.m. CT on Sunday, May

All games are scheduled to take place at Riverwalk Stadium. All games can be live streamed at ESPN.com/watch for ESPN+ subscribers. 

Sun Belt Conference Baseball Tournament bracket

Click here for the Sun Belt Conference Baseball Tournament printable bracket. 

Sun Belt Conference Baseball Tournament pools, seeds

Pool A

East No. 1 seed South Alabama

West No. 4 seed Arkansas-Little Rock

East No. 6 seed Coastal Carolina

Pool B

East No. 2 seed Georgia Southern

West No. 3 seed ULM

East No. 5 seed Georgia State

Pool C

West No. 1 seed Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns

East No. 4 seed Appalachian State

West No. 6 seed Texas State

Pool D

West No. 2 seed Texas-Arlington

East No. 3 seed Troy University

West No. 5 seed Arkansas State

Sun Belt Conference Baseball Tournament schedule

Tuesday, May 25

Game 1: Coastal Carolina 15, Little Rock 1 

Game 2: Arkansas State 9, Troy University 6

Game 3: Georgia State 9, ULM 6

Game 4: Appalachian State 1, Texas State 0 

Wednesday, May 26

Game 5: South Alabama 14, Coastal Carolina 7 

Game 6: Georgia Southern 10, Georgia State 1 

Game 7: UL Ragin' Cajuns 12, Texas State 6

Thursday, May 27

Game 8: South Alabama 6, Little Rock 2

Game 9: UTA 8, Arkansas State 3

Game UL Ragin' Cajuns 7, Appalachian State 2

Friday, May 28

Game UTA 11, Troy University 5

Game Georgia Southern 9, ULM 5

Saturday, May 29

Game South Alabama 5, UTA 4

Game Georgia Southern 3, Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns 2

Sunday, May 30

Game South Alabama 10, Georgia Southern 4

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The schedule is set for the Sun Belt Conference baseball tournament, which begins Tuesday at Riverwalk Stadium in Montgomery.

The Sun Belt is going to pool play for this year’s tournament, with the conference’s 12 teams split into four groups. After a round-robin format Tuesday-Friday, the four pool winners advance to the single-elimination semifinals on Saturday.

Division winners South Alabama (East) and Louisiana (West) will get an advantage in that they won’t have to play games on Tuesday or Friday. The Sun Belt Conference championship game takes place at 1 p.m. Sunday, May

The entire tournament will be streamed live via ESPN+.

RELATED: South Alabama baseball tops App State , clinches Sun Belt East championship

Here are the full pool assignments and schedule for the Sun Belt Conference tournament (all times Central):

Pool A

South Alabama (No. 1 East)

Little Rock (No. 4 West)

Coastal Carolina (No. 6 East)

Pool B

Georgia Southern (No. 2 East)

ULM (No. 3 West)

Georgia State (No. 5 East)

Pool C

Louisiana (No. 1 West)

Appalachian State (No. 4 East)

Texas State (No. 6 West)

Pool D

UT Arlington (No. 2 West)

Troy (No. 3 East)

Arkansas State (No. 5 West)

Tournament schedule

Tuesday, May 25 (pool play)

Little Rock vs. Coastal Carolina, 9 a.m.

Troy vs. Arkansas State, p.m.

ULM vs. Georgia State, 4 p.m.

Appalachian State vs. Texas State, p.m.

Wednesday, May 26 (pool play)

South Alabama vs. Coastal Carolina, 11 a.m.

Georgia Southern vs. Georgia State, 3 p.m.

Louisiana vs. Texas State, 7 p.m.

Thursday, May 27 (pool play)

South Alabama vs. Little Rock, 11 a.m.

UT Arlington vs. Arkansas State, 3 p.m.

Louisiana vs. Appalachian State, 7 p.m.

Friday, May 28 (pool play)

UT Arlington vs. Troy, 3 p.m.

Georgia Southern vs. ULM, 7 p.m.

Saturday, May 29 (semifinals)

Pool A Winner vs. Pool D Winner, noon

Pool B Winner vs. Pool C Winner, 4 p.m.

Sunday, May 30

Championship Game, 1 p.m.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Coastal Carolina’s season came to an end on Wednesday afternoon, as the Chanticleers fell to the South Alabama Jaguars at the Sun Belt Conference Baseball Championship Tournament at Riverwalk Stadium in Montgomery, Ala.

The Jaguars used a trio of big innings with a five-run second, a four-run sixth, and a four-run eighth to pull away from the Chanticleers in the tournament win.

Coastal finished the season at overall and won five of its finals six games on the year.

With the loss, the Chanticleers are now all-time in Sun Belt Championship Tournament play since joining the league in

Junior Nick Lucky (2-for-3, 2 HR, 3 RBIs, 3 runs) capped his stellar play at the conference tournament with two home runs on the day, while fellow Chant Zack Beach (2-for-4, 2 HR, 3 RBIs, 2 runs) also blasted two long balls as the duo combined for six of the Chants’ seven RBIs.

With the two home runs in the game from both Beach and Lucky, five different Chants hit two home runs in the same game a total of six times on the season, including twice by Lucky. (Tanner Garrison (vs. UConn, March 8), BT Riopelle (vs. FIU, March 12), Dale Thomas (vs. Troy, May 9), Lucky (vs. Texas State, May 22), Beach (vs. South Alabama, May 26), and Lucky (vs. South Alabama, May 26)).

The Jaguars were led by Hunter Donaldson (4-for-4, BB, 2 RBIs, 2 runs) with a game-high four hits and Ethan Wilson (2-for-3, HR, 3B, 3 IBB, 3 RBIs, 3 runs) with a team-high three RBIs. Both Michael Sandle (2-for-5, 2B, HBP, 2 RBIs, run) and Kaleb DeLaTorre (1-for-3, 2B, BB, SAC, 2 RBIs) drove in two runs each.

USA starter Miles Smith () picked up the win. The right-hander allowed four runs on five hits, two walks, and eight strikeouts over complete innings.

The save went to Jackson Boyd (1) who pitched the final three innings in the win.

The loss fell to CCU’s Daniel Kreuzer (), as the graduate transfer gave up three runs on three hits and one walk over a third of an inning.

The Chanticleers got on the scoreboard first in the top half of the first, as the visitors pushed across a run on a swinging strikeout and a wild pitch, a walk, a sacrifice bunt, and an RBI ground out to the right side of the infield to go up

After South Alabama’s Wilson tied the game up in the bottom of the first on a solo home run to right field, Coastal’s Beach hit a two-run blast to right in the top of the second to put the visitors back in front at

However, the Jaguars continued the scoring trend with a five-run second inning which started with another solo shot, this time from Andrew Bates, to put South Alabama within one at

USA then ran off five more hits in the frame, which included an RBI double from Santi Montiel and an RBI single to right field by Sandle to put the home team on the scoreboard on top at

With the bases loaded, the Jaguars added a run on a fielder’s choice and then one more on a double to left-center field before an outfield assist from Parker Chavers to Eric Brown to BT Riopelle registered the third out of the inning at home with the Jaguars in front at

Three innings later, the Chants used the long ball again to cut into the Jaguars’ lead, as Lucky launched a foot home run to right-center field, his second home run of the tournament, to put the men in Teal within two at midway through the fifth inning of play.

However, the Jaguars used another big inning with a four-spot in the bottom of the sixth to run away from the Chanticleers and push their lead to six at

Following a lead-off base hit and a hit batter, Wilson tripled to the left-center field gap to score two runs. Sandle then doubled down the left-field line for another RBI base hit, while a safety squeeze two batters later capped the four-run frame.

The Chants refused to go away without a fight, as the duo of Beach and Lucky struck again in the top of the seventh, as Beach led off the frame with a solo home run to left field while Lucky followed two batters later with a two-run bomb down the right-field line to close the gap to three at heading into the seventh-inning stretch.

The Jaguars put the game away with a four-run eighth inning, highlighted by an RBI single from Cameron Tissue and a two-run base hit by Donaldson to double-up the Chants

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The Sun Belt Conference Baseball Tournament is scheduled to take place May in Montgomery, Alabama. 

The Sun Belt Conference tournament will begin with a round-robin pool play format, with the top team from each of the four pools advancing to Saturday’s semifinals. 

The tournament concludes with the championship game at 1 p.m. CT on Sunday, May

All games are scheduled to take place at Riverwalk Stadium. All games can be live streamed at ESPN.com/watch for ESPN+ subscribers. 

Sun Belt Conference Baseball Tournament bracket

Click here for the Sun Belt Conference Baseball Tournament printable bracket. 

Sun Belt Conference Baseball Tournament pools, seeds

Pool A

East No. 1 seed South Alabama

West No. 4 seed Arkansas-Little Rock

East No. 6 seed Coastal Carolina

Pool B

East No. 2 seed Georgia Southern

West No. 3 seed ULM

East No. 5 seed Georgia State

Pool C

West No. 1 seed Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns

East No. 4 seed Appalachian State

West No. 6 seed Texas State

Pool D

West No. 2 seed Texas-Arlington

East No. 3 seed Troy University

West No. 5 seed Arkansas State

Sun Belt Conference Baseball Tournament schedule

Tuesday, May 25

Game 1: Coastal Carolina 15, Little Rock 1 

Game 2: Arkansas State 9, Troy University 6

Game 3: Georgia State 9, ULM 6

Game 4: Appalachian State 1, Texas State 0 

Wednesday, May 26

Game 5: South Alabama 14, Coastal Carolina 7 

Game 6: Georgia Southern 10, Georgia State 1 

Game 7: UL Ragin' Cajuns 12, Texas State 6

Thursday, May 27

Game 8: South Alabama 6, Little Rock 2

Game 9: UTA 8, Arkansas State 3

Game UL Ragin' Cajuns 7, Appalachian State 2

Friday, May 28

Game UTA 11, Troy University 5

Game Georgia Southern 9, ULM 5

Saturday, May 29

Game South Alabama 5, UTA 4

Game Georgia Southern 3, Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns 2

Sunday, May 30

Game South Alabama 10, Georgia Southern 4

Here's more Sun Belt Conference baseball news: 

The Sun Belt Conference Baseball Tournament did not take place due to COVID Coastal Carolina won the Sun Belt Conference Baseball Tournament. 

Gabe Hauari is a digital producer for the USA Today Network. You can follow him on Twitter @GabeHauari.