Missouri Valley Conference baseball tournament explained

Missouri Valley Conference baseball tournament
Optional Subheader:	Conference baseball tournament
Sport:	Baseball
Conference:	Missouri Valley Conference
Number Of Teams:	8
Current Stadium:	Charles H. Braun Stadium
Current Location:	Evansville, Indiana
Years:	1962–1964 1970–1980 1982–present
Most Championships:	Wichita State (18 titles)
Current Champion:	Evansville (2nd title)
Most Recent:	2024
Website:	mvc-sports.org baseball
Sponsors:	ConAgra Foods (2005–2007) State Farm (2008–present)
All Stadiums:	Unknown (1949, 1951–1952, 1956, 1971, 1974–1975) Tom Connor Field (1950, 1959, 1968) Buffalo Stadium (1958, 1960) Meyers Field (1961, 1970) Busch Stadium (1962–1963) Parkway Field (1964) Sauget Field (1965–1966) Fletcher Field (1967) Oiler Park (1969) Nat Buring Stadium (1972–1973) Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium (1977–1978) Eck Stadium (1979–1981, 1983, 1985, 1987–1994, 1996–1997, 1999–2003, 2005–2006, 2008–2010, 2015) Sycamore Stadium (1982, 2014, 2016, 2023) Abe Martin Field / Itchy Jones Stadium (1984, 1986, 2021) Lanphier Park (1995) Bosse Field (1998) Hammons Field (2004, 2007, 2012, 2017, 2022) TD Ameritrade Park Omaha (2011) Duffy Bass Field (2013, 2019) Horner Ballpark (2018) Charles H. Braun Stadium (2024)
All Locations:	Stillwater, Oklahoma (1949, 1952, 1956) Peoria, Illinois (1950, 1959, 1968) Tulsa, Oklahoma (1951, 1969, 1974–1975) Houston, Texas (1958, 1960) Cincinnati, Ohio (1961, 1970) St. Louis, Missouri (1962–1963, 1965–1966) Louisville, Kentucky (1964) Collinsville, Illinois (1967) St. Ann, Missouri (1971) Memphis, Tennessee (1972–1973) Omaha, Nebraska (1977–1978, 2011) Wichita, Kansas (1979–1981, 1983, 1985, 1987–1994, 1996–1997, 1999–2003, 2005–2006, 2008–2010, 2015) Terre Haute, Indiana (1982, 2014, 2016, 2023) Carbondale, Illinois (1984, 1986, 2021) Springfield, Illinois (1995) Evansville, Indiana (1998, 2024) Springfield, Missouri (2004, 2007, 2012, 2017, 2022) Normal, Illinois (2013, 2019) Dallas, Texas (2018)

The Missouri Valley Conference baseball tournament is the conference baseball championship of the NCAA Division I Missouri Valley Conference. Eight teams participate in the double-elimination tournament. The 2024 Missouri Valley Conference Baseball tournament was held in Evansville, Indiana at German American Bank Field.^[1] The winner of the tournament receives an automatic berth to the NCAA Division I Baseball Championship.

Champions

Year	Host city	Stadium	Championship Results
Year	Host city	Stadium	Champions	Series	Runner-ups
MVC Championship Series (1949–1952; 1956–1961)
1949	Stillwater, Oklahoma		Oklahoma A&M (West)	2 – 0	Bradley (East)
1950	Peoria, Illinois	Tom Connor Field	Bradley (East)	2 – 1	Oklahoma A&M (West)
1951	Tulsa, Oklahoma		Houston (West)	2 – 0	Bradley (East)
1952	Stillwater, Oklahoma		Saint Louis (North)	2 – 0	Houston (South)
1953
1954
1955
1956	Stillwater, Oklahoma		Bradley (East)	2 – 0	Oklahoma A&M (West)
1957	No series played
1958	Houston, Texas	Buffalo Stadium	Cincinnati (East)	2 – 1	Houston (West)
1959	Peoria, Illinois	Tom Connor Field	Bradley (East)	2 – 1	Houston (West)
1960	Houston, Texas	Buffalo Stadium	Houston (West)	1 – 0	Cincinnati (East)
1961	Cincinnati, Ohio	Meyers Field	Cincinnati (East)	2 – 0	Tulsa (West)
MVC Tournament (1962–1964)
1962	St. Louis, Missouri	Busch Stadium	Bradley	1 – 0	Saint Louis
1963	St. Louis, Missouri	Busch Stadium	Saint Louis	1 – 0	Bradley
1964	Louisville, Kentucky	Parkway Field	Saint Louis	1 – 0	Louisville
MVC Championship Series (1965–1970)
1965	St. Louis, Missouri	Sauget Field	(West)	2 – 0	(East)
1966	St. Louis, Missouri	Sauget Field	(East)	2 – 0	(West)
1967	Collinsville, Illinois	Fletcher Field	(East)	2 – 1	(West)
1968	Peoria, Illinois	Tom Connor Field	(East)	2 – 0	(West)
1969	Tulsa, Oklahoma	Oiler Park	Tulsa (West)	2 – 1	(East)
1970	Cincinnati, Ohio	Meyers Field	(West)	2 – 0	(East)
MVC Tournament (1971–1980)
1971	St. Ann, Missouri			2 – 0
1972	Memphis, Tennessee	Nat Buring Stadium		1 – 0
1973	Memphis, Tennessee	Nat Buring Stadium		1 – 0
1974	Tulsa, Oklahoma			1 – 0
1975	Tulsa, Oklahoma			1 – 0
1976	Tournament cancelled due to inclement weather
1977	Omaha, Nebraska	Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium		1 – 0
1978	Omaha, Nebraska	Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium		1 – 0
1979	Wichita, Kansas	Eck Stadium		2 – 0
1980	Wichita, Kansas	Eck Stadium		1 – 0
MVC Championship Series (1981)
1981	Wichita, Kansas	Eck Stadium	(East)	2 – 1	(West)
MVC Tournament (1982–present)
1982	Terre Haute, Indiana	Sycamore Stadium	Wichita State (West)	1 – 0	(East)
1983	Wichita, Kansas	Eck Stadium	(East)	1 – 0	(East)
1984	Carbondale, Illinois	Abe Martin Field		1 – 1
1985	Wichita, Kansas	Eck Stadium		1 – 0
1986	Carbondale, Illinois	Abe Martin Field		1 – 0
1987	Wichita, Kansas	Eck Stadium		2 – 0
1988				0 – 0
1989				1 – 0	Wichita State
1990				1 – 0
1991			Wichita State	1 – 0
1992				1 – 1
1993			Wichita State	1 – 0
1994
1995	Springfield, Illinois	Lanphier Park
1996	Wichita, Kansas	Eck Stadium
1997	Wichita, Kansas	Eck Stadium
1998	Evansville, Indiana	Bosse Field
1999	Wichita, Kansas	Eck Stadium
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004	Springfield, Missouri	Hammons Field
2005	Wichita, Kansas	Eck Stadium
2006	Wichita, Kansas	Eck Stadium
2007	Springfield, Missouri	Hammons Field
2008	Wichita, Kansas	Eck Stadium
2009
2010				1 – 0
2011	Omaha, Nebraska	TD Ameritrade Park Omaha		1 – 0
2012	Springfield, Missouri	Hammons Field		1 – 0
2013	Normal, Illinois	Duffy Bass Field		1 – 0
2014	Terre Haute, Indiana	Sycamore Stadium		1 – 0
2015	Wichita, Kansas	Eck Stadium		1 – 0
2016	Terre Haute, Indiana	Sycamore Stadium		1 – 0
2017	Springfield, Missouri	Hammons Field		1 – 0
2018	Dallas, Texas	Horner Ballpark		1 – 0
2019	Normal, Illinois	Duffy Bass Field	Indiana State	2 – 0	Dallas Baptist
2020	Tournament canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2021	Carbondale, Illinois	Itchy Jones Stadium	Dallas Baptist	1 – 0
2022	Springfield, Missouri	Hammons Field		1 – 1
2023	Terre Haute, Indiana	Sycamore Stadium		1 – 1
2024	Evansville, Indiana	Charles H. Braun Stadium	Evansville	1 – 0

Legend

Indicates the team that won the conference championship series was from the loser's bracket.

By school

In the sortable table below, teams are ordered first by number of appearances, then by winning percentage, and finally by year of first appearance. In the "Season(s)" column, bold years indicate winning appearances.

Team	Apps	W–L	Season(s)
Cincinnati	7	7–9	1958, 1960, 1961, 1965, 1967, 1969, 1970
Bradley	6	8–6	1949, 1950, 1951, 1956, 1959, 1968
Houston	5	5–6	1951, 1952, 1958, 1959, 1960
Saint Louis	4	7–2	1952, 1965, 1966, 1967
Tulsa	4	4–5	1961, 1968, 1969, 1970
Oklahoma A&M	3	3–4	1949, 1950, 1956
Wichita State	2	1–4	1966, 1981
Southern Illinois	1	2–1	1981

Champions

By year

The following is a list of conference champions and sites listed by year.^[2]

Year	Program	Site
1947
1948
1949
1950
1951
1952
1953
1954
1955
1956
1957
1958
1959
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970
1971
1972
1973
1974
1975
1976	No Tournament
1977
1978
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983
1984
1985
1986
1987
1988*
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004		Hammons Field • Springfield, MO
2005		Eck Stadium • Wichita, KS
2006		Eck Stadium • Wichita, KS
2007		Hammons Field • Springfield, MO
2008		Eck Stadium • Wichita, KS
2009		Eck Stadium • Wichita, KS
2010		Eck Stadium • Wichita, KS
2011		TD Ameritrade Park • Omaha, NE
		Hammons Field • Springfield, MO
		Duffy Bass Field • Normal, IL
		Bob Warn Field at Sycamore Stadium • Terre Haute, IN
		Eck Stadium • Wichita, KS
		Bob Warn Field at Sycamore Stadium • Terre Haute, IN
		Hammons Field • Springfield, MO
		Horner Ballpark • Dallas, TX
		Duffy Bass Field • Normal, IL
2020	Cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic
		Itchy Jones Stadium • Carbondale, IL
		Hammons Field • Springfield, MO
		Bob Warn Field at Sycamore Stadium • Terre Haute, IN
		German American Bank Field • Evansville, IN

*Indicates declared champion, tournament final canceled due to inclement weather.

By school

The following is a list of tournament championships listed by school.

Program	No. of titles	Title years
Wichita State	18	1980, 1982, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2013
	8	1979, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1989, 1995, 2019, 2023
Tulsa	7	1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975
	6	1950, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1962, 1968
Oklahoma A&M	5	1947, 1948, 1949, 1954, 1955
Saint Louis	5	1952, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966
	5	1996, 1997, 2015, 2018, 2022
Dallas Baptist	4	2014, 2016, 2017, 2021
	4	1977, 1978, 1981, 1990
Cincinnati	3	1958, 1961, 1967
Creighton	3	2007, 2011, 2012
Houston	3	1951, 1953, 1960
	2	2006, 2024
	2	1994, 2010
Northern Iowa	1	2001

Italics indicate that the program no longer fields a baseball team in the Missouri Valley Conference.

Notes and References

Web site: MSU to Host 2022 MVC Baseball Championship.
Web site: Baseball Record Book . Missouri Valley Conference . 13 March 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140714125756/http://mvc.org/baseball/baseballrecords.pdf . 14 July 2014 .