2000 Conference USA baseball tournament

2000 Conference USA
baseball tournament
Teams8
FormatEight-team double-elimination tournament
Finals site
ChampionsHouston (2nd title)
Winning coachRayner Noble (2nd title)
MVPJarrod Bitter (Houston)
2000 Conference USA baseball standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T   PCT W   L   T   PCT
No. 13 Houston  ‍†‍‡‍y 21 – 4 – 0   .840 48 – 18 – 0   .727
Tulane  ‍‍‍y 20 – 6 – 1   .759 38 – 22 – 1   .631
Southern Miss  ‍‍‍ 14 – 9 – 0   .609 32 – 26 – 0   .552
Charlotte  ‍‍‍ 15 – 11 – 0   .577 32 – 25 – 1   .560
South Florida  ‍‍‍ 14 – 13 – 0   .519 29 – 29 – 0   .500
Cincinnati  ‍‍‍ 11 – 16 – 0   .407 35 – 16 – 0   .686
UAB  ‍‍‍ 10 – 15 – 0   .400 28 – 32 – 0   .467
Louisville  ‍‍‍ 10 – 16 – 1   .389 17 – 37 – 1   .318
Memphis  ‍‍‍ 8 – 18 – 0   .308 15 – 37 – 0   .288
Saint Louis  ‍‍‍ 6 – 21 – 0   .222 19 – 34 – 0   .358
† – Conference champion
‡ – Tournament champion
y – Invited to the NCAA tournament
Rankings from Collegiate Baseball


The 2000 Conference USA baseball tournament was the 2000 postseason baseball championship of the NCAA Division I Conference USA, held at Florida Power Park in St. Petersburg, Florida, from May 17 through 21. Houston defeated Cincinnati in the championship game, earning the conference's automatic bid to the 2000 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.[1]

The tournament's format was changed slightly from the format used from 1996 to 1999. The play-in round that had been used to determine which of the lowest seeds would participate in the eight-team bracket was eliminated. Instead, only the top eight of the conference's ten teams in the regular season qualified for the tournament. The loss of the play-in round shortened the tournament from six to five days.[1]

  1. ^ a b "2012 Conference USA Baseball Media Guide" (PDF). pp. 75–93. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 12, 2012. Retrieved June 21, 2012.