Mid-American Conference baseball tournament | |
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Conference baseball championship | |
Sport | Baseball |
Conference | Mid-American Conference |
Number of teams | 6 |
Format | Double-elimination |
Played | 1981–1983 1992–2019 2022–present |
Last contest | 2024 |
Current champion | Western Michigan (2nd) |
Most championships | Kent State (12) |
Official website | getsomemaction.com/.. |
Host stadiums | |
Campus sites (1981, 1983, 1992–2007, 2022–2023) Franklin County Stadium (1982) V.A. Memorial Stadium (2008–2011) Crushers Stadium (2012–2019, 2024–present) |
The Mid-American Conference baseball tournament is the conference baseball championship of the Mid-American Conference, Division I members of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Since 2024, the top six finishers participate in the double-elimination tournament, which is played at the home field of the top seed. The winner of the tournament receives an automatic berth to the NCAA Division I Baseball Championship. The tournament began in 1981, but was not held from 1984 through 1991. It returned in 1992 and was held annually through 2019. It was scheduled to be played in May 2020, but was cancelled in March 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic. As part of several changes announced in May 2020 related to the pandemic, the tournament was eliminated along with the post-season tournaments of seven other sports, for at least four seasons.[1] The tournament, however, returned in May 2022 after the conference announced in May 2021 that the baseball tournament, along with all other conference tournaments that had been eliminated, would be restored for the 2021–22 athletic season.[2] Kent State has won the most tournament titles with 12, followed by Central Michigan and Eastern Michigan with four each.