2017 Big South Conference softball tournament

The 2017 Big South Conference softball tournament was held at Longwood University's Lancer Field from May 10 through May 14, 2017. Following the departure of Coastal Carolina for the Sun Belt Conference, the Big South reconfigured the tournament to a six-team event. Longwood won their third straight tournament, and fourth of their five seasons in the conference, becoming the first tournament host to win since Radford in 2008.

2017 Big South Conference
softball tournament
The semifinal between Longwood and Liberty.
Teams6
FormatDouble-elimination tournament
Finals site
ChampionsLongwood (4th title)
Winning coachKathy Riley (4th title)
MVPElizabeth McCarthy (Longwood)
TelevisionBig South Network, ESPN3
  • 2016
  • Big South Softball Tournament
  • 2018

Seeds

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The top two seeds had byes to the second round. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.

Seed School Conference Overall Tiebreaker
1 Liberty 16–5 35–20
2 Campbell 13–8 29–25 2–1 vs. Longwood
3 Longwood 13–8 24–26 1–2 vs. Campbell
4 Charleston Southern 10–11 25–34
5 Winthrop 9–12 24–29
6 Radford 8–13 27–26
‡ – Big South regular season champions.
Overall records are as of the end of the regular season.

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Tournament

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First Round
May 10th
Big South Network
Second Round
May 11th
Big South Network
Semifinals
May 13th
ESPN3
Championship
May 13th and 14th
ESPN3
1Liberty11
4Charleston Southern54Charleston Southern3 (5)
5Winthrop41Liberty4
3Longwood7
2Campbell4
3Longwood63Longwood8
6Radford1
1Liberty92
3Longwood34
Lower round 1Lower round 2Lower round 3Lower final
1Liberty9
2Campbell55Winthrop3
4Charleston Southern05Winthrop13
5Winthrop55Winthrop8
6Radford0
  • All times listed are Eastern Daylight Time.[2]

References

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  1. ^ "Big South Announces Seedings for 2017 Softball Championship" (Press release). Big South Conference. May 7, 2017. Retrieved May 7, 2017.
  2. ^ "2017 Big South Softball Championship" (PDF). bigsouthsports.com. Retrieved May 10, 2017.