2016 Summit League baseball tournament
| Teams | 4 |
|---|---|
| Format | Double-elimination |
| Finals site | |
| Champions | Oral Roberts (17th title) |
| Winning coach | Ryan Folmar (2nd title) |
| MVP | Nick Rotola (Oral Roberts) |
| Conf. | Overall | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Team | W | L | PCT | W | L | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Oral Roberts †‡y | 22 | – | 8 | .733 | 38 | – | 21 | .644 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Omaha | 18 | – | 12 | .600 | 28 | – | 28 | .500 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| IPFW | 14 | – | 16 | .467 | 33 | – | 26 | .559 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| South Dakota State | 13 | – | 17 | .433 | 22 | – | 35 | .386 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| North Dakota State | 12 | – | 18 | .400 | 29 | – | 25 | .537 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Western Illinois | 11 | – | 19 | .367 | 14 | – | 36 | .280 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| † – Conference champion ‡ – Tournament champion y – Invited to the NCAA tournament As of June 11, 2016[1] Rankings from Collegiate Baseball | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The 2016 Summit League baseball tournament was a tournament that took place from May 25-28, 2016. The top four regular season finishers of the league's six teams met in the double-elimination tournament held at J. L. Johnson Stadium on the campus of Oral Roberts in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The champion of the tournament was Oral Roberts, beating IPFW for the title.[2] They subsequently earned a bid to the 2016 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.
Seeding
The top four finishers from the regular season were seeded one through four based on conference winning percentage during the double round robin regular season. The teams played in a double elimination tournament.
| Team | W | L | Pct | GB | Seed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oral Roberts | 22 | 8 | .733 | — | 1 |
| Omaha | 18 | 12 | .600 | 4 | 2 |
| IPFW | 14 | 16 | .467 | 8 | 3 |
| South Dakota State | 13 | 17 | .433 | 9 | 4 |
| North Dakota State | 12 | 18 | .400 | 10 | — |
| Western Illinois | 11 | 19 | .367 | 11 | — |
Results
| First round | Semi-finals | Finals | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Oral Roberts | 6 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | South Dakota State | 5 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Oral Roberts | 5 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | IPFW | 6 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | IPFW | 8 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | Omaha | 6 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | IPFW | 1 | 3 | |||||||||||
| 1 | Oral Roberts | 4 | 14 | |||||||||||
| Lower round 1 | Lower final | |||||||||||||
| 4 | South Dakota State | 2 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | South Dakota State | 8 | 1 | Oral Roberts | 5 | |||||||||
| 2 | Omaha | 0 | ||||||||||||
References
- ^ "Summit League - 2016 Standings". d1Baseball.com. Retrieved June 11, 2016.
- ^ 2024 Baseball Record Book (PDF). Summit League. p. 27. Retrieved November 3, 2025.