2011 Mountain West Conference Baseball Tournament

2011 Mountain West Conference Baseball Tournament
Classification	Division I
Season	2011
Teams	6
Format	Double-elimination
Site	Tony Gwynn Stadium San Diego, CA
Champions	New Mexico (1st title)
MVP	D.J. Peterson (New Mexico)
Television	Mountiain/CBS Sports Network
Mountain West Conference Baseball Tournament «2010  2012»

The 2011 Mountain West Conference Baseball Tournament took place from May 24–28 The top six regular season finishers of the league's seven teams met in the double-elimination tournament held at San Diego State's Tony Gwynn Stadium. Sixth seeded New Mexico won their first Mountain West Conference Baseball Championship with a championship game score of 4-2 and earned the conference's automatic bid to the 2011 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.^[1][2]

Seeding

2011 Mountain West Conference baseball standings
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		PCT			W		L		PCT
#17 TCU †^y	20	–	3		.870			43	–	19		.694
Utah	16	–	7		.696			29	–	21		.580
BYU	11	–	12		.478			31	–	27		.534
San Diego State	11	–	13		.458			22	–	36		.379
UNLV	10	–	13		.435			33	–	25		.569
New Mexico ‡^y	10	–	14		.417			20	–	41		.328
Air Force	4	–	20		.167			19	–	36		.345
† – Conference champion ‡ – Tournament champion y – Invited to the 2011 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament As of June 30, 2011[3]; Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

The top six finishers from the regular season were seeded one through six based on conference winning percentage only. Only six teams participate, so Air Force was not in the field.

Team	W	L	Pct.	GB	Seed
TCU	20	3	.870	–	1
Utah	16	7	.696	4	2
BYU	11	12	.478	9	3
San Diego State	11	13	.458	9.5	4
UNLV	10	13	.435	10	5
New Mexico	10	14	.417	10.5	6
Air Force	4	20	.167	16.5	–

Results

	First round					Second round					Third Round					Semi-Finals					Finals
Winner's Bracket
	3	BYU	4			1	TCU	3
	6	New Mexico	5			6	New Mexico	4
											6	New Mexico	6
											2	Utah	5
	4	San Diego State	4			2	Utah	7
	5	UNLV	3			4	San Diego State	3
																					6	New Mexico	4
Loser's Bracket																					1	TCU	2
	3	BYU	5
	5	UNLV	1
						4	San Diego State	2
						3	BYU	8
											1	TCU	12
											3	BYU	5
																2	Utah	1
																1	TCU	14

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All-Tournament Team

Pos.	Name	Class	Team
C	Josh Elander	SO	TCU
1B	Joe Weik	SR	TCU
2B	Dane Nielsen	SR	BYU
3B	D. J. Peterson (MVP)	FR	New Mexico
3B	Troy Neilsen	FR	Utah
LF	Luke Campbell	JR	New Mexico
CF	Cody Smith	FR	San Diego State
CF	Kyle Von Tungeln	SO	TCU
DH	Jacob Nelson	SO	New Mexico
RHP	Austin House	SO	New Mexico
RP	Bobby Mares	SO	New Mexico

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References

1. "2012 Mountain West Conference Baseball Conference Championship Central". themwc.com. Retrieved 2012-07-02.
2. "New Mexico Stuns Top-Seeded TCU to Win MW Baseball Championship". themwc.com. Retrieved 2012-07-02.
3. "Mountain West Conference Baseball Final Standings". themwc.com. Retrieved July 2, 2012.
4. "2011 Mountain West Conference Baseball Championship" (PDF). themwc.com. Retrieved 2012-07-02.