The Conference USA regular season baseball season has come to a close and Rice took two of three from Central Florida to clinch the overall seed for the C-USA post season tournament. Houston snuck into the tournament by holding of Marshall for the eighth and final spot.
Conference USA holds their tournament in pool play rather than bracket form, so each team will play three games within their pod and the team with the best record in each pod earns a spot in the championship game.
Here are the pods:
| Pod 2 | Pod 2 | ||
| No. 1 Rice | No. 2 UCF | ||
| No. 4 Southern Miss | No. 3 Tulane | ||
| No. 5 Memphis | No. 6 East Carolina | ||
| No. 8 Houston | No. 7 UAB | ||
Here is 2012 Conference USA tournament schedule:
| 2012 Conference USA Tournament | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Game 1 | 5/23 12:00 PM | Memphis (#5) | Southern Miss (#4) | |||
| Game 2 | 5/23 4:00 PM | Houston (#8) | Rice (#1) | |||
| Game 3 | 5/23 8:00 PM | East Carolina (#6) | Tulane (#4) | |||
| Game 4 | 5/24 12:00 PM | UAB (#7) | UCF (#2) | |||
| Game 5 | 5/24 4:00 PM | Houston (#8) | Southern Miss (#4) | |||
| Game 6 | 5/24 8:00 PM | Memphis (#5) | Rice (#1) | |||
| Game 7 | 5/25 12:00 PM | UAB (#7) | Tulane (#4) | |||
| Game 8 | 5/25 4:00 PM | East Carolina (#6) | UCF (#2) | |||
| Game 9 | 5/25 8:00 PM | Houston (#8) | Memphis (#5) | |||
| Game 10 | 5/26 12:00 PM | Tulane (#3) | UCF (#2) | |||
| Game 11 | 5/26 4:00 PM | UAB (#7) | East Carolina (#6) | |||
| Game 12 | 5/26 8:00 PM | Southern Miss (#4) | Rice (#1) | |||
| Game 13 | 5/27 2:00 PM | Winner, Pool 1 | Winner, Pool 2 | |||
For more on the 2012 C-USA tournament stay tuned to SB Nation Houston's coverage of the event.