The University of Alabama at Birmingham Athletics
C-USA Baseball Tournament Schedule Announced
5/19/2012 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
May 19, 2012
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. ---- The UAB baseball team earned the No. 7 seed in the Conference USA Baseball Championship presented by Trustmark, which begins Wednesday at Trustmark Park in Pearl, Miss., announced by the league office on Saturday evening.
The 2012 Conference USA Championship presented by Trustmark will feature the top eight teams in regular-season league play. Those eight will be split into two four-team pools (or pods), with the winner of each pod playing in a single championship game. Teams are assigned pods based on seed, which are determined by the order of finish in regular-season conference play.
UAB (29-27, 9-15 C-USA) earned a spot in the second pod, featuring No. 2 seed UCF (41-14, 16-8), No. 3 seed Tulane (37-18, 14-10) and No. 6 seed East Carolina (34-20-1, 13-10-1).
Each team receives an off day as part of the new tournament format as the Blazers and Knights will wait to square off until Thursday, while the other six teams compete on day one.
All three tournament games will air locally on WJOX-AM 690 with David Crane on the call.
UAB’s Tournament Schedule
Wednesday, May 23
Off Day
Thursday, May 24
(7) UAB vs. (2) UCF – 11 a.m. CT
Friday, May 25
(7) UAB vs. (3) Tulane – 11 a.m. CT
Saturday, May 26
(7) UAB vs. (6) East Carolina – 3 p.m. CT
Sunday, May 27
Championship Game – 1 p.m.
Each team is guaranteed to play three games. Teams in each pod will play all three other teams in its pod. The team with the best composite record in each pod advances to the championship game. Two-way ties in a pod will be broken by head-to-head play. In the case of a three-way tie, the highest seed will advance.
Game times are 11 a.m., 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday with the championship game slated for 1 p.m. on Sunday afternoon. The championship game will be nationally-televised by CBS Sports Network.
Additionally, pod number one features No.1 seed Rice, No. 4 seed Southern Miss, No. 5 seed Memphis and No. 8 seed Houston.
