2013 Conference USA baseball tournament

2013 Conference USA
baseball tournament
Teams8
Format2 division round-robin and championship game
Finals site
ChampionsRice (5th title)
Winning coachWayne Graham (5th title)
MVPChristian Stringer (Rice)
2013 Conference USA baseball standings
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   PCT W   L   PCT
No. 14 Rice  ‍y 15 9   .625 44 20   .688
Southern Miss  ‍‍‍ 15 9   .625 30 27   .526
East Carolina  ‍‍‍ 14 10   .583 31 26   .544
Memphis  ‍‍‍ 14 10   .583 35 24   .593
UCF  ‍‍‍ 13 11   .542 29 30   .492
Houston  ‍‍‍ 13 11   .542 36 22   .621
Tulane  ‍‍‍ 11 13   .458 30 28   .517
UAB  ‍‍‍ 7 17   .292 23 36   .390
Marshall  ‍‍‍ 6 18   .250 20 34   .370
† – Conference champion
‡ – Tournament champion
y – Invited to the NCAA tournament
As of June 8, 2013
Rankings from Collegiate Baseball


The 2013 Conference USA baseball tournament was held from May 22 through 26 at Reckling Park in Houston, Texas. The annual tournament determines the conference champion of the Division I Conference USA for college baseball. Rice won their fifth tournament championship and claimed the league's automatic bid to the 2013 NCAA Division I baseball tournament. This is the last of 19 athletic championship events held by the conference in the 2012–13 academic year.

The tournament was established in 1996, Conference USA's first season of play. Entering the event, Tulane has won the most championships, with five. Among current teams, only Marshall and Memphis have never won a title.

This was to be the third year of a three-year contract placing the event at Trustmark Park, home of an Atlanta Braves Class-AA affiliate in Pearl, Mississippi, a suburb of Jackson, Mississippi. However, the venue opted out of the contract, leaving Conference USA seeking a new home for the 2013 tournament. The conference announced that the tournament would instead be held at Reckling Park.