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2015 Conference USA baseball tournament

collegiate baseball tournament

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ18890049 ↗
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The 2015 Conference USA baseball tournament was held from May 20 through 24 at Pete Taylor Park in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. The annual tournament determined the conference champion of the Division I Conference USA for college baseball. The tournament champion received the league's automatic bid to the 2015 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.

The tournament was established in 1996, Conference USA's first season of play. Rice has won the most championships, with six.

Seeding and format

The top eight finishers from the regular season will be seeded one through eight. The tournament will use a double elimination format.

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The public source identifies “2015 Conference USA baseball tournament” as collegiate baseball tournament. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Conference, baseball and tournament.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2015, 1996—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Conference, baseball and tournament providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “2015 Conference USA baseball tournament” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.