Collegiate baseball tournament
| Teams | 2 |
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| Format | Best of 3 series |
| Finals site | |
| Champions | West Virginia (1st title) |
| Winning coach | Dale Ramsburg (1st title) |
| MVP | Jeff Wilson (West Virginia) |
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| Rutgers | 5 | – | 3 | .625 | 17 | – | 11 | .607 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| UMass | 3 | – | 4 | .429 | 15 | – | 20 | .429 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rhode Island | 3 | – | 4 | .429 | 17 | – | 19 | .472 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| No. 16 West Virginia ‡ | 7 | – | 2 | .778 | 24 | – | 23 | .511 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| George Washington | 4 | – | 4 | .500 | 16 | – | 21 | .432 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Duquesne | 3 | – | 5 | .375 | 14 | – | 9 | .609 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pittsburgh | 3 | – | 6 | .333 | 11 | – | 19 | .367 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| x – Division champion ‡ – Championship Series champion y – Invited to the NCAA tournament As of June 30, 1982 Rankings from Collegiate Baseball | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The 1982 Eastern 8 Conference Baseball Championship Series was held on May 7 and 8, 1982 to determine the champion of the NCAA Division I Eastern 8 Conference, renamed later in 1982 as the Atlantic 10 Conference, for the 1982 NCAA Division I baseball season. This was the fourth iteration of the event, and was held on the campus of Rutgers in Piscataway, New Jersey. West Virginia won the championship two games to one and earned the conference's automatic bid to the 1982 NCAA Division I baseball tournament. For the first time, a Most Valuable Player was named, with Jeff Wilson of West Virginia earning the honor.
Format and seeding
The regular season winners of each of the conference's two divisions advanced to a best of three series.
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Results
Game One
| Team | R |
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| Rutgers | 2 |
| West Virginia | 8 |
Game Two
| Team | R |
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| West Virginia | 5 |
| Rutgers | 6 |
Game Three
| Team | R |
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| Rutgers | 5 |
| West Virginia | 7 |
References
- Baseball Media Guide. West Virginia Mountaineers. p. 155. Retrieved June 8, 2017.
- Atlantic 10 Conference Baseball Record Book (PDF). Atlantic 10 Conference. p. 20. Retrieved June 8, 2017.
| Atlantic 10 Conference baseball tournament | |
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| Tournament | |
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- Atlantic 10 Conference baseball tournament
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