1996 Southwest Conference Baseball Tournament

1996 Southwest Conference
Baseball Tournament
Classification Division I
Season 1996
Teams 7
Format Double-elimination tournament
Site Dan Law Field
Lubbock, Texas
Champions Rice (1st title)
Winning coach Wayne Graham (1st title)
MVP Jacques Landry (Rice)
Attendance 31,542 (Total)
2,628 (Average)
Southwest Conference
Baseball Tournament
«1995   
1996 Southwest Conference baseball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   PCT     W   L   PCT
#16 Texas y 17 7   .708     39 24   .619
#17 Texas Tech y 15 9   .625     49 15   .766
Texas A&M 12 12   .500     37 21   .638
Baylor 11 13   .458     32 27   .542
Texas Christian 11 13   .458     34 33   .507
Houston 9 15   .375     29 28   .509
#25 Rice y 9 15   .375     42 23   .646
Conference champion
Tournament champion
y Invited to the NCAA Tournament
As of June 30, 1996; Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

The 1996 Southwest Conference Baseball Tournament was the league's annual postseason tournament used to determine the Southwest Conference's (SWC) automatic bid to the 1996 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament. The tournament was held from May 15 through May 18 at Dan Law Field on the campus of Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas and drew a total attendance of 31,542.[1] This was the first time the SWC Tournament was held in Lubbock, and the final conference tournament before the conference disbanded.

The sixth-seeded Rice Owls went undefeated to win the team's first SWC Tournament under fifth-season head coach Wayne Graham.[2]

Format and seeding

The 1996 SWC Tournament was the first, and only, to feature all teams in a double-elimination tournament over four rounds.

The SWC regular season champion, Texas Longhorns, received the tournament's only first-round bye while the remaining six teams were seeded based on their regular season conference standings. TCU claimed the fourth seed by tiebreaker over Baylor, while Rice earned the sixth seed over Houston by tiebreaker.

Team W L PCT GB Seed
Texas 17 7 .708
1
Texas Tech 15 9 .625
2
2
Texas A&M 12 12 .500
5
3
TCU 11 13 .458
6
4
Baylor 11 13 .458
6
5
Rice 9 15 .375
8
6
Houston 9 15 .375
8
7

Tournament

  First Round     Second Round     Third Round     Semifinals     Finals
                                                 
  Winner's Bracket
    1  Texas 7  
      4  TCU 5    
  4  TCU 12          
  5  Baylor 5        
      1  Texas 6            
      6  Rice 9              
  3  Texas A&M 7              
  6  Rice 9                
      6  Rice 7          
      2  Texas Tech 3        
  2  Texas Tech 11          
  7  Houston 5         6  Rice 16
      1  Texas 8
  Loser's Bracket      
  3  Texas A&M 12        
  7  Houston 10     3  Texas A&M 1        
    5  Baylor 8          
      5  Baylor 4        
      2  Texas Tech 10     1  Texas 8    
  4  TCU 6         2  Texas Tech 7  
  2  Texas Tech 10  

References

  1. Dan Law Field at Rip Griffin Park. Texas Tech University. Retrieved May 15, 2014.
  2. 2014 Baseball Fact Book (PDF). Rice Owls. Retrieved May 15, 2014.
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