2010 Mountain West Conference Baseball Tournament

2010 Mountain West Conference
Baseball Tournament
Classification Division I
Season 2010
Teams 6
Format Double-elimination
Site Tony Gwynn Stadium
San Diego, CA
Champions TCU ( title)
MVP Bryan Holaday (TCU)
Television Mountain/CBS Sports Network
Mountain West Conference
Baseball Tournament
«2009  2011»
2010 Mountain West Conference baseball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   PCT     W   L   PCT
#3 TCU †‡y 21 – 5   .808     54 – 14   .794
New Mexico y 14 – 8   .636     38 – 22   .633
San Diego State 13 – 11   .542     28 – 28   .500
BYU 12 – 12   .500     27 – 31   .466
UNLV 11 – 13   .458     29 – 29   .500
Utah 10 – 13   .435     23 – 28   .451
Air Force 3 – 20   .130     13 – 42   .236
† – Conference champion
‡ – Tournament champion
y – Invited to the 2010 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament
As of June 30, 2010[1]; Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

The 2010 Mountain West Conference Baseball Tournament took place from May 25–29. The top six regular season finishers of the league's seven teams met in the double-elimination tournament held at San Diego State's Tony Gwynn Stadium. Top seeded TCU won their fourth Mountain West Conference Baseball Championship with a championship game score of 2-0 and earned the conference's automatic bid to the 2010 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.[2][3]

Seeding

The top six finishers from the regular season were seeded one through six based on conference winning percentage only. Only six teams participate, so Air Force was not in the field.

Team W L Pct. GB Seed
TCU 21 5 .808
–
1
New Mexico 14 8 .636
5
2
San Diego State 13 11 .542
7
3
BYU 12 12 .500
8
4
UNLV 11 13 .458
9
5
Utah 10 13 .435
9.5
6
Air Force 3 20 .130
16.5
–

Results

  First round Second round Third Round Semi-Finals Finals
                                                 
Winner's Bracket
  4  BYU 1     1  TCU 13  
  5  UNLV 9     6  Utah 2    
      1  TCU 5              
      5  UNLV 2              
  3  San Diego State 6     2  New Mexico 3          
  6  Utah 12     5  UNLV 3        
        1  TCU 2 –
Loser's Bracket       2  New Mexico 0 –
  4  BYU 16        
  3  San Diego State 8          
      6  Utah 18        
      4  BYU 25          
            2  New Mexico 7              
          4  BYU 6              
      5  UNLV 3    
    2  New Mexico 10  

[4]

All-Tournament Team

Name Team
Sean McNaughton BYU
Justin Howard New Mexico
Ryan Honeycutt New Mexico
Mike Lachapelle New Mexico
Taylor Featherton TCU
Bryan Holaday (MVP) TCU
Matt Purke TCU
Kyle Winkler TCU
Jarred Frierson UNLV
Tanner Peters UNLV
C. J. Cron Utah
Nick Kuroczko Utah

[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Mountain West Conference Baseball Final Standings". themwc.com. Retrieved July 3, 2012.
  2. ↑ "2010 Mountain West Conference Baseball Conference Championship Central". themwc.com. Retrieved 2012-07-04.
  3. 1 2 "TCU Punches NCAA Tournament Ticket with 2-0 Win over New Mexico". themwc.com. Retrieved 2012-07-04.
  4. ↑ "2010 Mountain West Conference Baseball Championship" (PDF). themwc.com. Retrieved 2012-07-04.
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