1996 Southwest Conference baseball tournament

August 2023 1996 Southwest Conference SWC 7 Double-elimination tournament Dan Law Field Lubbock, Texas 1996 Rice Owls Rice 1st Wayne Graham 1st Jacques Landry Rice 31,542 (Total)2,628 (Average) Yes The 1996 Southwest Conference baseball tournament was the league's annual postseason tournament used to determine the Southwest Conference's (SWC) automatic bid to the 1996 NCAA Division I baseball tournament. The tournament was held from May 15 through 18 at Dan Law Field on the campus of Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, and drew a total attendance of 31,542.http://www.texastech.com/sports/m-basebl/spec-rel/danlawfield.html Texas Tech University Dan Law Field at Rip Griffin Park May 15, 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20140517114536/http://www.texastech.com/sports/m-basebl/spec-rel/danlawfield.html 2014-05-17 dead This was the first time the SWC tournament was held in Lubbock, and the final conference tournament before the conference disbanded. The sixth-seeded Rice Owls went undefeated to win the team's first SWC tournament under fifth-season head coach Wayne Graham.http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/rice/sports/m-basebl/auto_pdf/2013-14/misc_non_event/14-basebl-fact-book.pdf Rice Owls 2014 Baseball Fact Book May 15, 2014 April 11, 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20140411120352/http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/rice/sports/m-basebl/auto_pdf/2013-14/misc_non_event/14-basebl-fact-book.pdf dead Format and seeding The 1996 SWC tournament was the first, and only, to feature all teams in a double-elimination tournament over four rounds. The SWC regular season champion, Texas Longhorns, received the tournament's only first-round bye while the remaining six teams were seeded based on their regular season conference standings. TCU claimed the fourth seed by tiebreaker over Baylor, while Rice earned the sixth seed over Houston by tiebreaker. Team W L PCT GB Seed 1996 Texas Longhorns Texas 17 7 17 7 – 1 1996 Texas Tech Red Raiders Texas Tech 15 9 15 9 2 2 1996 Texas A&M Aggies Texas A&M 12 12 12 12 5 3 1996 TCU Horned Frogs TCU 11 13 11 13 6 4 1996 Baylor Bears Baylor 11 13 11 13 6 5 1996 Rice Owls Rice 9 15 9 15 8 6 1996 Houston Cougars Houston 9 15 9 15 8 7 Tournament First round Second round Third round Semifinals Finals 4 1996 TCU Horned Frogs TCU 12 5 1996 Baylor Bears Baylor 5 3 1996 Texas A&M Aggies Texas A&M 7 6 1996 Rice Owls Rice 9 2 1996 Texas Tech Red Raiders Texas Tech 11 7 1996 Houston Cougars Houston 5 1 1996 Texas Longhorns Texas 7 4 TCU 5 6 Rice 7 2 Texas Tech 3 1 Texas 6 6 Rice 9 3 Texas A&M 12 7 Houston 10 3 Texas A&M 1 5 Baylor 8 4 TCU 6 2 Texas Tech 10 5 Baylor 4 2 Texas Tech 10 1 Texas 8 2 Texas Tech 7 6 Rice 16 — 1 Texas 8 — References Tournament Category:Baseball in Lubbock, Texas Category:Southwest Conference baseball tournament Southwest Conference baseball tournament Category:Sports competitions in Lubbock, Texas