College softball tournament Collegiate softball tournament
| Teams | 9 |
|---|---|
| Format | Double-elimination tournament |
| Finals site | |
| Champions | Longwood (3rd title) |
| Winning coach | Kathy Riley (3rd title) |
| MVP | Sydney Gay (Longwood) |
| Television | Big South Network, ESPN3 |
The 2016 Big South Conference softball tournament were held at Winthrop University's Terry Field from May 11 through May 14, 2016. Longwood won their second straight tournament championship, and the third of their four years in the conference, earning the conference's automatic bid to the 2016 NCAA Division I softball tournament. The first and second rounds were streamed online through the Big South Network, while the semifinals and championship were streamed on ESPN3.
Seeds
The nine conference teams which sponsor college softball all received bids. The bottom two seeds have a play-in game to determine who will advance to face the top seeded team. Teams will be seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.
| Seed | School | Conference | Overall | Tiebreaker |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Longwood‡ | 19–5 | 33–17 | |
| 2 | Coastal Carolina | 18–6 | 35–20 | |
| 3 | Liberty | 16–8 | 30–26 | |
| 4 | Radford | 13–11 | 32–24 | |
| 5 | Campbell | 11–13 | 25–29 | |
| 6 | Presbyterian | 10–14 | 24–26 | 2–1 vs. Charleston Southern |
| 7 | Charleston Southern | 10–14 | 22–32 | 1–2 vs. Presbyterian |
| 8 | Gardner-Webb | 7–17 | 21–32 | |
| 9 | Winthrop | 4–20 | 14–41 | |
| ‡ – Big South regular season champions. Overall records are as of the end of the regular season. | ||||
Tournament
8/9 Elimination game
| Elimination Game May 11th Big South Network | ||||
| 8 | Gardner–Webb | 5 | ||
| 9 | Winthrop | 9 | ||
Double-elimination tournament
| 1st Round May 11th and 12th Big South Network | 2nd Round May 12th and 13th Big South Network | Semifinals May 13th and 14th ESPN3 | Championship May 14th ESPN3 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Longwood | 13 | |||||||||||||||||
| 9 | Winthrop | 5 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Longwood | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Campbell | 5 | |||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Radford | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Campbell | 11 | |||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Radford | 8 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Campbell | 4 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Radford | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
| 9 | Winthrop | 3 | 3 | Liberty | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| 4 | Radford | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Longwood | 10 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Coastal Carolina | 14 | |||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Campbell | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Charleston Southern | 10 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Coastal Carolina | 8 | |||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Liberty | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Liberty | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Presbyterian | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Longwood | 5 | 10 | ||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Coastal Carolina | 0 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Presbyterian | 8 | |||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Charleston Southern | 5 | 1 | Longwood | 4 | ||||||||||||||
| 6 | Presbyterian | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
- All times listed are Eastern Daylight Time.
References
- "Seedings for 2016 Big South Softball Championship Announced" (Press release). Big South Conference. May 8, 2016. Archived from the original on March 5, 2017. Retrieved May 8, 2016.
- "2015 Big South Softball Championship" (PDF). bigsouthsports.com. Retrieved May 13, 2016.
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