1979 Southwest Conference baseball tournament

1979 Southwest Conference
baseball tournament
Teams4
FormatDouble-elimination tournament
Finals site
ChampionsTexas (1st title)
Winning coachCliff Gustafson (1st title)
1979 Southwest Conference baseball standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   PCT W   L   PCT
No. 4 Texas  ‍y 22 2   .917 61 8   .884
No. 2 Arkansas  ‍‍‍y 19 5   .792 49 15   .766
Baylor  ‍‍‍ 13 9   .591 34 15   .694
Texas A&M  ‍‍‍ 13 10   .565 30 20   .600
Houston  ‍‍‍ 11 13   .458 27 17   .614
Texas Tech  ‍‍‍ 9 15   .375 16 23   .410
Southern Methodist  ‍‍‍ 7 16   .304 21 26   .447
Texas Christian  ‍‍‍ 7 17   .292 21 24   .467
Rice  ‍‍‍ 5 19   .208 20 29   .408
† – Conference champion
‡ – Tournament champion
y – Invited to the NCAA tournament
As of June 30, 1979[1]
Rankings from Collegiate Baseball


The 1979 Southwest Conference baseball tournament was the league's annual postseason tournament used to determine the Southwest Conference's (SWC) automatic bid to the 1979 NCAA Division I baseball tournament. The tournament was held from May 12 through 14 at Disch–Falk Field on the campus of The University of Texas in Austin, Texas.

The number 1 seed Texas Longhorns went 3–0 to win the team's first SWC tournament under head coach Cliff Gustafson.[2]

  1. ^ "College Baseball Conference Standings – 1979". Boyds World. Retrieved April 5, 2019.
  2. ^ "2018 Texas Baseball Fact Book" (PDF). Texas Longhorns. pp. 51–56. Retrieved November 20, 2019.