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2010 Conference USA baseball tournament

collegiate baseball tournament

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ4616979 ↗
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The 2010 Conference USA baseball tournament was the 2010 postseason college baseball championship of the NCAA Division I Conference USA, held at Cougar Field in Houston, Texas, from May 26–May 30, 2010. Southern Miss won the tournament and received Conference USA's automatic bid to the 2010 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.

The tournament format changed from that which had been used since the 2000 tournament. It consisted of six teams split into two three-team pods. Each team played a total of three preliminary games, two against its podmates and one against a team from the opposite pod. The team with the best record in each pod going advanced to a single-game final.

Regular season results

SMU, Tulsa, and UTEP do not field baseball teams. Tulane, UAB, and UCF did not make the tournament.

Bracket

Results

Finish order

† - Winner of the tournament and received an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.

# - Received an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament.

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