2017 ASUN Conference baseball tournament

The 2017 ASUN Conference baseball tournament was held at Melching Field at Conrad Park on the campus of Stetson University in DeLand, Florida, from May 24 through 27. Third seeded Florida Gulf Coast won their first championship and claimed the ASUN Conference's automatic bid to the 2017 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.^{[2][3][4][5][6]}

2017 ASUN Conference
baseball tournament

Teams	6
Format	Double-elimination
Finals site	Melching Field at Conrad Park DeLand, Florida
Champions	Florida Gulf Coast (1st title)
Winning coach	Dave Tollett (1st title)
MVP	Marc Coffers (=Florida Gulf Coast)
← 2016 ASUN baseball tournament 2018 →

2017 ASUN Conference baseball standings

v t e	Conf.							Overall
Team	W		L		PCT			W		L		PCT
Jacksonville  ‍†‍‍	16	–	5		.762			36	–	24		.600
Stetson  ‍‍‍	15	–	6		.714			27	–	29		.482
Florida Gulf Coast  ‍‍‡‍y	13	–	8		.619			43	–	20		.683
North Florida  ‍‍‍	12	–	9		.571			33	–	24		.579
Kennesaw State  ‍‍‍	10	–	11		.476			25	–	32		.439
Lipscomb  ‍‍‍	9	–	12		.429			28	–	28		.500
USC Upstate  ‍‍‍	7	–	14		.333			24	–	31		.436
NJIT  ‍‍‍	2	–	19		.095			9	–	40		.184
† – Conference champion ‡ – Tournament champion y – Invited to the NCAA tournament As of June 30, 2017[1] Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

This was the conference's first baseball tournament held under its current "ASUN" brand name, which was adopted at the start of the 2016–17 school year.^[7]

Format and seeding

The 2017 tournament was a double-elimination tournament in which the top six conference members participated. Seeds were determined based on conference winning percentage from the round-robin regular season.

Team	W	L	Pct	GB	Seed
Jacksonville	16	5	.762	—	1
Stetson	15	6	.714	1	2
Florida Gulf Coast	13	8	.619	3	3
North Florida	12	9	.571	4	4
Kennesaw State	10	11	.476	6	5
Lipscomb	9	12	.429	7	6
USC Upstate	7	14	.333	9	—
NJIT	2	19	.095	14	—

Bracket and results

	First round					Second round					Third round					Semifinals					Final
	1	Jacksonville	8
	6	Lipscomb	2			1	Jacksonville	8
						4	North Florida	5
	2	Stetson	5								1	Jacksonville	8
	5	Kennesaw State	10								5	Kennesaw State	4
						3	Florida Gulf Coast	3													1	Jacksonville	2	3
						5	Kennesaw State	6													3	Florida Gulf Coast	4	410
	3	Florida Gulf Coast	4													5	Kennesaw State	5
	4	North Florida	0								6	Lipscomb	1			3	Florida Gulf Coast	6
						6	Lipscomb	8			3	Florida Gulf Coast	3
						2	Stetson	6

All-Tournament Team

The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team.^[6]

Pos	Name	School
P	Chris Gau	Jacksonville
	Kutter Crawford	Florida Gulf Coast
C	Mike Cassala	Jacksonville
IF	Austin Upshaw	Kennesaw State
	Grant Williams	Kennesaw State
	Scott Dubrule	Jacksonville
	Nick Rivera	FGCU
OF	Marc Coffers	Florida Gulf Coast
	Michael Gigliotti	Lipscomb
	Chris Lehane	Jacksonville
UTIL	Kenton Hering	Florida Gulf Coast

Most Valuable PLayer

Marc Coffers was named Tournament Most Valuable Player. Coffers was an outfielder for Florida Gulf Coast.^[6]