1996_Southwest_Conference_baseball_tournament

1996 Southwest Conference baseball tournament

1996 Southwest Conference baseball tournament

Collegiate baseball tournament

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 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.

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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.

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Tournament

First roundSecond roundThird roundFinals
1Texas7
4TCU5
4TCU12
5Baylor5
1Texas6
6Rice9
3Texas A&M7
6Rice9
6Rice7
2Texas Tech3
2Texas Tech11
7Houston5
6Rice16—
1Texas8—
Lower round 1Lower round 2Lower round 3Lower final
3Texas A&M1
3Texas A&M125Baylor81Texas8
7Houston105Baylor42Texas Tech7
2Texas Tech10
4TCU6
2Texas Tech10

References

  1. [1]
    Dan Law Field at Rip Griffin Park. Texas Tech University. Archived from the original on May 17, 2014. Retrieved May 15, 2014.
  2. [2]
    2014 Baseball Fact Book (PDF). Rice Owls. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 11, 2014. Retrieved May 15, 2014.
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