2018 Southland Conference baseball tournament

2018 Southland Conference
baseball tournament
Teams8
FormatDouble-elimination
Finals site
ChampionsNorthwestern State (1st title)
Winning coachBobby Barbier (1st title)
MVPDavid Fry (Northwestern State)
TelevisionESPN+
2018 Southland Conference baseball standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   PCT W   L   PCT
Sam Houston St  ‍‍‍ 24 6   .800 39 20   .661
Southeastern Louisiana  ‍‍‍ 21 9   .700 37 22   .627
Northwestern State  ‍‍y 18 12   .600 37 22   .627
Houston Baptist  ‍‍‍ 18 12   .600 29 30   .492
Central Arkansas  ‍‍‍ 17 13   .567 32 25   .561
McNeese State  ‍‍‍ 15 15   .500 25 33   .431
Texas A&M–Corpus Christi  ‍‍‍ 14 16   .467 30 26   .536
New Orleans  ‍‍‍ 14 16   .467 29 32   .475
Nicholls State  ‍‍‍ 14 16   .467 28 32   .467
Incarnate Word  ‍‍‍ 13 17   .433 29 26   .527
Lamar  ‍‍‍ 13 17   .433 19 36   .345
Stephen F. Austin  ‍‍‍ 9 21   .300 17 36   .321
Abilene Christian  ‍‍‍ 5 25   .167 21 33   .389
† – Conference champion
‡ – Tournament[1] champion
y – Invited to the NCAA tournament
Rankings from Collegiate Baseball


The 2018 Southland Conference baseball tournament was held from May 23 through 26. The top eight regular season finishers of the league's thirteen teams met in the double-elimination tournament, which was held at Constellation Field in Sugar Land, Texas. As the winner of the tournament, Northwestern State earned the conference's automatic bid to the 2018 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.[2] It was Northwestern State's first Tournament championship.[3]

  1. ^ "Conference Standings". Southland Conference. Retrieved February 20, 2018.
  2. ^ "2017-18 Championship Information". Southland Conference. Retrieved May 12, 2018.
  3. ^ "Northwestern State Wins First Ever Southland Baseball Tournament Title". Southland Conference. May 26, 2018. Retrieved October 6, 2018.