2016 Mid-American Conference baseball tournament

2016 Mid-American Conference
baseball tournament
Teams8
FormatDouble-elimination
Finals site
ChampionsWestern Michigan (1st title)
Winning coachBilly Gernon (1st title)
MVPKeegan Akin (Western Michigan)
TelevisionESPN3
2016 Mid-American Conference baseball standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T   PCT W   L   T   PCT
East Division
Kent State  x‍‍‍ 20 4 0   .833 44 14 0   .759
Miami (OH)  ‍‍‍ 14 10 0   .583 27 29 0   .482
Ohio  ‍‍‍ 8 16 0   .333 23 29 0   .442
Buffalo  ‍‍‍ 8 16 0   .333 21 31 0   .404
Bowling Green  ‍‍‍ 7 17 0   .292 17 37 0   .315
West Division
Ball State  x‍‍‍ 15 9 0   .625 32 26 0   .552
Northern Illinois  ‍‍‍ 14 10 0   .583 24 32 0   .429
Toledo  ‍‍‍ 13 11 0   .542 19 38 1   .336
Central Michigan  ‍‍‍ 12 12 0   .500 24 37 0   .393
Western Michigan y  ‍‍‍ 11 13 0   .458 22 34 0   .393
Eastern Michigan  ‍‍‍ 10 14 0   .417 23 36 0   .390
x – Division champion
‡ – Tournament champion
y – Invited to the NCAA tournament
As of June 11, 2016[1]
Rankings from Collegiate Baseball


The 2016 Mid-American Conference baseball tournament was held May 25–29. The top eight regular season finishers of the conference's 11 teams, regardless of division, met in the double-elimination tournament held at All Pro Freight Stadium in Avon, Ohio. The seventh-seeded Western Michigan Broncos won the tournament to earn the conference's automatic bid to the 2016 NCAA Division I baseball tournament. It marked the first championship game appearance and tournament title for the Broncos.[2]

  1. ^ "Mid-American Conference - 2016 Standings". mac-sports.com. Retrieved June 11, 2016.
  2. ^ "2015–16 Championship Dates" (PDF). Mid-American Conference. Retrieved January 30, 2016.