1995 Southwest Conference baseball tournament
The 1995 Southwest Conference baseball tournament was the league's annual postseason tournament used to determine the Southwest Conference's (SWC) automatic bid to the 1995 NCAA Division I baseball tournament. The tournament was held from May 18 through 21 at Olsen Field on the main campus of Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas.
| Teams | 4 |
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| Format | Double-elimination tournament |
| Finals site | |
| Champions | Texas Tech (1st title) |
| Winning coach | Larry Hays (1st title) |
| MVP | Jason Totman (Texas Tech[1]) |
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| Team | W | L | PCT | W | L | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 10 Texas Tech †‡y | 16 | – | 8 | .667 | 51 | – | 14 | .785 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 15 Rice y | 15 | – | 9 | .625 | 43 | – | 19 | .694 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 12 Texas A&M y | 15 | – | 9 | .625 | 44 | – | 22 | .667 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 23 Texas y | 14 | – | 10 | .583 | 44 | – | 19 | .698 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Texas Christian | 11 | – | 13 | .458 | 27 | – | 29 | .482 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Baylor | 7 | – | 17 | .292 | 25 | – | 28 | .472 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Houston | 6 | – | 18 | .250 | 26 | – | 29 | .473 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| † – Conference champion ‡ – Tournament champion y – Invited to the NCAA tournament As of June 30, 1995[2] Rankings from Collegiate Baseball | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The number one seed Texas Tech Red Raiders went 3–1 to win the team's first SWC tournament under head coach Larry Hays.
Format and seeding
The tournament featured the top four finishers of the SWC's seven teams in a double-elimination tournament.
Regular season conference champion Texas Tech received the first seed while Rice claimed the second seed by tiebreaker over Texas A&M, and Texas received the fourth seed.
| Place | Team | Conference | Overall | Seed | |||||
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| W | L | % | GB | W | L | % | |||
1 | Texas Tech | 16 | 8 | .667 | - | 51 | 14 | .785 | 1 |
2 | Rice | 15 | 9 | .625 | 1 | 43 | 19 | .694 | 2 |
3 | Texas A&M | 15 | 9 | .625 | 1 | 44 | 22 | .667 | 3 |
4 | Texas | 14 | 10 | .583 | 2 | 44 | 19 | .698 | 4 |
5 | TCU | 11 | 13 | .458 | 5 | 27 | 29 | .482 | - |
6 | Baylor | 7 | 17 | .292 | 9 | 25 | 28 | .472 | - |
7 | Houston | 6 | 18 | .250 | 10 | 26 | 29 | .473 | - |
Tournament
| First round | Semi-finals | Final | |||||||||||
| 1 | Texas Tech | 9 | |||||||||||
| 4 | Texas | 3 | |||||||||||
| 1 | Texas Tech | 6 | |||||||||||
| 3 | Texas A&M | 5 | |||||||||||
| 2 | Rice | 6 | |||||||||||
| 3 | Texas A&M | 8 | |||||||||||
| 1 | Texas Tech | ||||||||||||
| 3 | Texas A&M | ||||||||||||
| Lower round 1 | Lower final | ||||||||||||
| 3 | Texas A&M | 11 | |||||||||||
| 4 | Texas | 6 | 4 | Texas | 3 | ||||||||
| 2 | Rice | 0 | |||||||||||
References
- "Postseason Honors". Texas Tech University. Archived from the original on June 6, 2014. Retrieved May 30, 2014.
- "College Baseball Conference Standings – 1995". Boydsworld.com. Retrieved May 30, 2014.
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