2011 Conference USA Tournament

The 2011 Conference USA baseball tournament was held at Trustmark Park in Pearl, MS. The tournament field was broken into 2 4-team brackets that played a round robin schedule. The winner of each bracket met in a 1 game championship. #1 Rice University defeated #6 University of Houston for the title. Tyler Duffey of Rice was named MVP.

Participating Teams

Bracket 1

Seed	School	Conf. Record	Head Coach
1	Rice University	16-8	Wayne Graham
4	University of Central Florida	12-12	Terry Rooney
5	University of Memphis	12-12	Daron Schoenrock
8	University of Alabama at Birmingham	9-15	Brian Shoop

Bracket 2

Seed	School	Conf. Record	Head Coach
2	University of Southern Mississippi	16-8	Scott Berry
3	East Carolina University	14-10	Billy Godwin
6	University of Houston	12-12	Todd Whitting
7	Tulane University	10-14	Rick Jones

Game Results

Game	Winner	Score	Loser	Notes
May 25
Game 1	University of Central Florida	16-9	University of Memphis
Game 2	University of Alabama at Birmingham	9-8	Rice University
Game 3	University of Houston	8-5	East Carolina University
Game 4	University of Southern Mississippi	6-1	Tulane University
May 26
Game 5	University of Central Florida	6-4	University of Alabama at Birmingham
Game 6	Rice University	8-5	University of Memphis
Game 7	East Carolina University	4-2 (11)	Tulane University
Game 8	University of Houston	7-6 (14)	University of Southern Mississippi
May 27
Game 9	University of Memphis	5-4	University of Alabama at Birmingham
Game 10	Rice University	4-2	University of Central Florida	Rice wins bracket with 2-1 record
Game 11	Tulane University	7-1	University of Houston	Houston wins bracket with 2-1 record
Game 12	University of Southern Mississippi	4-0	East Carolina University
May 28
Game 13	Rice University	4-3	University of Houston	Rice advances to NCAA tournament

All-Tournament Team

• C Craig Manuel, Rice
• IF John Frost, UAB
• IF Jonathan Griffin, UCF
• IF Ryan Still, Houston
• IF Corey Thompson, East Carolina
• OF Landon Appling, Houston
• OF Ryan Lewis, Rice
• OF Caleb Ramsey, Houston
• DH D.J. Hicks, UCF
• P Tyler Duffey, Rice
• P Seth Maness, East Carolina
• P Todd McInnis, Southern Miss
• P Jared Ray, Houston