2006 Conference USA baseball tournament

Collegiate baseball tournament

2006 Conference USA
baseball tournamentTeams| 8

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

* Reckling Park
* Houston, Texas

Champions| Rice (1st title)
Winning coach| Wayne Graham (1st title)
MVP| Joe Savery (Rice)

* ← 2005
* C-USA baseball tournament
* 2007 →

The 2006 Conference USA baseball tournament was the 2006 postseason college baseball championship of the NCAA Division I Conference USA, held at Reckling Park in Houston, Texas, from May 24–May 28, 2006. Rice won the tournament in its first year as a member of the conference, and received Conference USA's automatic bid to the 2006 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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Rice | 22  | 2  |  | .917  | \--  | 1
Houston | 18  | 6  |  | .750  | 4  | 2
Tulane | 15  | 9  |  | .625  | 7  | 3
Memphis | 13  | 11  |  | .542  | 9  | 4
Southern Miss | 13  | 11  |  | .542  | 9  | 5
East Carolina | 10  | 14  |  | .417  | 12  | 6
Marshall | 6  | 18  |  | .250  | 16  | 7
UAB | 6  | 18  |  | .250  | 16  | 8
UCF | 5  | 19  |  | .208  | 17  | \--

* Records listed are conference play only. SMU, Tulsa, and UTEP did not field baseball teams. UCF did not qualify for tournament play.

## Bracket

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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| First round
May 24–25| | | Second round
May 25–26| | | Semifinals
May 28| | | Championship Game
May 28
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| 6| East Carolina| 4
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| 3| Tulane| 2| |
| | | 6| East Carolina| 1
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| | | 2| Houston| 9| |
| 7| Marshall| 1| | | |
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| 2| Houston| 9| |
| | | 2| Houston| 6|
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| | | 3| Tulane| 0| | |
| 3| Tulane| 12| | | | | | |
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| 7| Marshall| 1| | | 3| Tulane| 2
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| | | | 6| East Carolina| 1| |
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| 2| Houston| 5
| 8| UAB| 3| | |
| | | | | 1| Rice| 11
| 1| Rice| 9| | | | | | | |
| | | 1| Rice| 5|
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| | | 5| Southern Miss| 1| |
| 5| Southern Miss| 6| | | |
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| 4| Memphis| 2| |
| | | 1| Rice| 7|
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| | | 4| Memphis| 4| | |
| 8| UAB| 2| | | | | | |
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| 4| Memphis| 2| | | 4| Memphis| 8
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| | | | 5| Southern Miss| 5| |
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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 | Rice† | 4 | 0 | 0 | .1000 | 1 |
2 | Houston# | 3 | 1 | 0 | .750 | 2 | Rice
3 | Memphis | 2 | 2 | 0 | .500 | 4 | Rice
4 | Tulane# | 2 | 2 | 0 | .500 | 3 | Houston
5 | Southern Miss# | 1 | 2 | 0 | .333 | 5 | Memphis
6 | East Carolina | 1 | 2 | 0 | .333 | 6 | Tulane
7 | UAB | 0 | 2 | 0 | .000 | 8 | Rice
8 | Marshall | 0 | 2 | 0 | .000 | 7 | Tulane

† \- 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  | Ty Wallace  | Tulane
IF  | Greg Buchanan  | Rice
IF  | Isa Garcia  | Houston
IF  | Michael Murray  | Memphis
IF  | Joe Savery | Rice
OF  | Jordan Dodson  | Rice
OF  | Will Petersen  | Memphis
OF  | Jake Stewart  | Houston
DH/UT  | Brad Lincoln | Houston
P  | Bobby Bell  | Rice
P  | Bryce Cox  | Rice
P  | Luis Flores  | Houston
P  | Shane Mathews  | East Carolina
MVP | Joe Savery  | Rice

## References

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1. ^ "Conference USA Baseball Historical Records". Conference USA. Archived from the original on December 22, 2008. Retrieved January 19, 2009.

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