2016 Big South Conference Softball Tournament

Classification| Division I
Teams| 9
Format| Double-elimination tournament
Site|

* Terry Field
* Rock Hill, South Carolina

Champions| Longwood (3rd title)
Winning coach| Kathy Riley (3rd title)
MVP| Sydney Gay (Longwood)
Television| Big South Network, ESPN3

* ← 2015
* Big South Softball Tournament
* 2017 →

The 2016 Big South Conference Softball Tournament were held at Winthrop University's Terry Field from May 11 through May 14, 2016. Longwood won their second straight tournament championship, and the third of their four years in the conference, earning the conference's automatic bid to the 2016 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament. The first and second rounds were streamed online through the Big South Network, while the semifinals and championship were streamed on ESPN3.

## Contents

* 1 Seeds
* 2 Tournament
* 2.1 8/9 Elimination Game
* 2.2 Double Elimination Tournament
* 3 References

## Seeds[edit]

The nine conference teams which sponsor college softball all received bids. The bottom two seeds have a play-in game to determine who will advance to face the top seeded team. Teams will be seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.

Seed  | School  | Conference  | Overall  | Tiebreaker

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1 | Longwood‡ | 19–5 | 33–17 |
2 | Coastal Carolina | 18–6 | 35–20 |
3 | Liberty | 16–8 | 30–26 |
4 | Radford | 13–11 | 32–24 |
5 | Campbell | 11–13 | 25–29 |
6 | Presbyterian | 10–14 | 24–26 | 2–1 vs. Charleston Southern
7 | Charleston Southern | 10–14 | 22–32 | 1–2 vs. Presbyterian
8 | Gardner-Webb | 7–17 | 21–32 |
9 | Winthrop | 4–20 | 14–41 |
‡ – Big South regular season champions.
Overall records are as of the end of the regular season.

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## Tournament[edit]

### 8/9 Elimination Game[edit]

| Elimination Game
May 11th
Big South Network |

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| 8 | Gardner–Webb | 5 |
| 9 | Winthrop | 9 |

### Double Elimination Tournament[edit]

| 1st Round
May 11th and 12th
Big South Network | | | 2nd Round
May 12th and 13th
Big South Network | | | Semifinals
May 13th and 14th
ESPN3 | | | Championship
May 14th
ESPN3 |

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| 1 | Longwood | 13 | | | |
| 9 | Winthrop | 5 (6) |
| | 1 | Longwood | 2 |
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| | | 5 | Campbell | 5 |
| 4 | Radford | 2 |

| 5 | Campbell | 11 |
| | 4 | Radford | 8 | 3 |
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| | | 5 | Campbell | 4 | 6 |
| 4 | Radford | 4 | |

| 9 | Winthrop | 3 |
| | 3 | Liberty | 1 |
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| | | 4 | Radford | 2 |
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| | 1 | Longwood | 10 | – | – |
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| | | 5 | Campbell | 0 (5) | – | – |
| 2 | Coastal Carolina | 14 | | |

| 7 | Charleston Southern | 10 |
| | 2 | Coastal Carolina | 8 |
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| | | 3 | Liberty | 0 (5) |
| 3 | Liberty | 3 |

| 6 | Presbyterian | 0 |
| | 1 | Longwood | 5 | 10 |
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| | | 2 | Coastal Carolina | 0 | 2 (5) |
| 6 | Presbyterian | 8 | |

| 7 | Charleston Southern | 5 |
| | 1 | Longwood | 4 |
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| | | 6 | Presbyterian | 0 |

* All times listed are Eastern Daylight Time.[2]

## References[edit]

1. ^ "Seedings for 2016 Big South Softball Championship Announced" (Press release). Big South Conference. May 8, 2016. Archived from the original on March 5, 2017. Retrieved May 8, 2016.
2. ^ "2015 Big South Softball Championship" (PDF). bigsouthsports.com. Retrieved May 13, 2016.

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2016 NCAA Division I softball tournaments

Conference|

* America East
* American
* Atlantic 10
* ACC
* Atlantic Sun
* Big Ten
* Big East
* Big Sky
* Big South
* Colonial
* Conference USA
* Horizon
* Ivy
* MAAC
* Mid-American
* MEAC
* Missouri Valley
* Northeast
* Ohio Valley
* Patriot
* SEC
* Southern
* Southland
* SWAC
* The Summit League
* Sun Belt
* WAC

National|

* NCAA
* 2016

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