2004 Conference USA baseball tournament

Collegiate baseball tournament

2004 Conference USA
baseball tournamentTeams| 8

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Format| Eight-team double-elimination tournament
Finals site|

* Cougar Field
* Houston, Texas

Champions| TCU (1st title)
Winning coach| Jim Schlossnagle (1st title)
MVP| Austin Adams (TCU)

* ← 2003
* C-USA baseball tournament
* 2005 →

The 2004 Conference USA baseball tournament was the 2004 postseason college baseball championship of the NCAA Division I Conference USA, held at Cougar Field in Houston, Texas, from May 26 through 30, 2004. The TCU Horned Frogs won the tournament and received the conference's automatic bid to the 2004 NCAA Division I baseball tournament. The tournament consisted of eight teams, with two double-elimination brackets, and a single-game final.[1]

## Regular season results

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Team | W | L | T | Pct | GB | Seed

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East Carolina | 25 | 5 | 0 | .833 | \-- | 1
Tulane | 21 | 9 | 0 | .700 | 4 | 2
Southern Miss | 21 | 9 | 0 | .700 | 4 | 3
TCU | 19 | 11 | 0 | .633 | 6 | 4
Houston | 19 | 11 | 0 | .633 | 6 | 5
Memphis | 15 | 14 | 0 | .517 | 9.5 | 6
UAB | 13 | 16 | 0 | .448 | 11.5 | 7
Louisville | 13 | 17 | 0 | .433 | 12 | 8
South Florida | 12 | 17 | 0 | .414 | 12.5 | \--
Charlotte | 9 | 21 | 0 | .300 | 16 | \--
Cincinnati | 6 | 24 | 0 | .200 | 19 | \--
Saint Louis | 5 | 24 | 0 | .172 | 19.5 | \--

* Records listed are conference play only. Marquette and DePaul did not field baseball teams. South Florida, Charlotte, Cincinnati, and Saint Louis did not make the tournament.

## Bracket

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| First round
May 26–27| | | Second round
May 27–28| | | Semi-finals
May 28–29| | | Finals
May 30
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| 6| Memphis| 10
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| 3| Southern Miss| 5| |
| | | 7| UAB| 7
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| | | 6| Memphis| 6| |
| 7| UAB| 10| | | |
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| 2| Tulane| 4| |
| | | 7| UAB| 10| 7
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| | | 3| Southern Miss| 16| 9| |
| 3| Southern Miss| 16| | | | | | |
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| 2| Tulane| 4| | | 6| Memphis| 0
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| | | | 3| Southern Miss| 13| |
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| 4| TCU| 3
| 1| East Carolina| 13| | |
| | | | | 3| Southern Miss| 1
| 8| Louisville| 2| | | | | | | |
| | | 5| Houston| 6|
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| | | 1| East Carolina| 5| |
| 5| Houston| 9| | | |
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| 4| TCU| 5| |
| | | 5| Houston| 3| 4
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| | | 4| TCU| 8| 5| |
| 8| Louisville| 3| | | | | | |
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| 4| TCU| 4| | | 4| TCU| 5
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| | | | 1| East Carolina| 4| |
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* Bold indicates the winner of the game.
* Italics indicate that the team was eliminated from the tournament.

## Finish order

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Finish | Team | W | L | T | Pct | Seed | Eliminated By

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1 | TCU† | 5 | 1 | 0 | .833 | 4 |
2 | Southern Miss# | 4 | 2 | 0 | .667 | 3 | TCU
3 | Houston | 2 | 2 | 0 | .500 | 5 | TCU
4 | UAB | 2 | 2 | 0 | .500 | 7 | Southern Miss
5 | East Carolina# | 1 | 2 | 0 | .333 | 1 | TCU
6 | Memphis | 1 | 2 | 0 | .333 | 6 | Southern Miss
7 | Louisville | 0 | 2 | 0 | .000 | 8 | TCU
8 | Tulane# | 0 | 2 | 0 | .000 | 2 | Southern Miss

† \- Winner of the tournament and received an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.
# \- Received an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament.

## All-tournament team

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Position  | Player  | School

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C  | Brad Willcutt  | Southern Mississippi
IF  | Matt Shepherd  | Southern Mississippi
IF  | Jarrett Hoffpauir | Southern Mississippi
IF  | Chris Neuman  | TCU
IF  | Bo Cogbill  | TCU
OF  | Ryan Frith  | Southern Mississippi
OF  | Chad Huffman | TCU
OF  | Austin Adams  | TCU
DH  | Kevin Roberts  | Houston
P  | Mike Cashion  | Southern Mississippi
P  | Eugene Espinelli | TCU
P  | Clayton Jerome  | TCU
P  | Ryan Weems  | TCU
MVP | Austin Adams  | TCU

## References

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1. ^ "Conference USA Baseball Historical Records". Conference USA. Archived from the original on December 22, 2008. Retrieved May 22, 2009.

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