american athletic conference baseball bracket

We knew they had to drop a game and we had to keep winning, but we saw one drop one the other day, and we knew it was ours to take from there.

We never really put our heads down when we dropped a couple games at Houston. 'We've grown real close to each other and it's showing now. 'Since I've been here, this is probably the closest team we've had,' ECU first baseman Josh Moylan said on 94.3 The Game after the conclusion of Saturday's regular season finale. They won their final 10 games of the regular season. The Pirates head into the postseason with a record of 41-15 overall, and an 18-6 mark in the American Athletic Conference. Sunday’s title game is set for a 12 noon ET ESPNews broadcast.Įast Carolina is currently ranked as high as 11th nationally, according to Baseball America. A loss means the Pirates would play an elimination game at 3 o’clock on Wednesday.Īll games of the tournament are scheduled to be streamed live on ESPN+. Thursday is scheduled to be the two winner’s bracket games.ĮCU, which went a combined 12-0 against teams on its side of the bracket during the regular season, will play Thursday at 1 p.m. If a team loses Tuesday, it has to turn around and play an elimination game immediately on Wednesday. Winning the first two games will net a 2-0 team off days on both Wednesday and Friday, before the semifinals on Saturday. It’s highly advantageous to stay in the winner’s bracket of the tournament. Tulane and Houston will play Game 3 of the tournament at 4 p.m., followed by Memphis and Wichita State in the night cap. ECU is scheduled to take on USF 47 minutes after the opening game, likely putting first pitch around 12:30 or 1 p.m. The action gets underway on Tuesday, when Cincinnati and UCF open the tournament at 9 a.m.

Both sides of the bracket are a double-elimination tournament, with the winners advancing to a winner-take-all single game on Sunday at 12 noon for the championship and league’s automatic bid. On the other side of the bracket, its second-seeded Houston, third-seeded Wichita State, sixth-seeded Memphis, and seventh-seeded Tulane. East Carolina is joined on its side of the bracket by fourth-seeded UCF and fifth-seeded Cincinnati. 4 5 Tulane won their first AAC tournament championship with a record of 19-40.

1 Tulane, the winner of the conference tournament, received the automatic bid to the 2023 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.

They will try and accomplish the same this postseason, starting with a first-round matchup, and rematch, against the USF Bulls on Tuesday.ĮCU earned the top seed in the tournament with a weekend sweep of USF, vaulting past Houston - which dropped a game to Cincinnati - by a half-game. The 2023 American Athletic Conference baseball tournament took place May 23 through May 28 at Ba圜are Ballpark in Clearwater, Florida. The Pirates became the only team in the history of the league a season ago to win both the regular season and conference tourney. The top two finishers from each division by conference winning percentage qualified for the tournament, with the top seed from one division playing the second seed from the opposite in the first round.Fresh off winning its fourth consecutive American Athletic Conference regular season championship, East Carolina’s baseball team will try and repeat as conference tournament champions this week as well inside Ba圜are Ballpark in Clearwater, Fla. Stetson won their second consecutive and overall tournament championship and earned the conference's automatic bid to the 1989 NCAA Division I baseball tournament. This was the eleventh tournament championship held by the Trans America Athletic Conference, in its eleventh year of existence. The 1989 Trans America Athletic Conference baseball tournament was held at Conrad Park on the campus of Stetson University in DeLand, Florida.

American athletic conference baseball bracket