The 2006 Mountain West Conference baseball tournament took place from May 23 through 27. All seven of the league's teams met in the double-elimination tournament held at University of Nevada, Las Vegas's Earl Wilson Stadium. In their first year in the league, top seeded TCU won their first Mountain West Conference Baseball Championship with a championship game score of 9–6 and earned the conference's automatic bid to the 2006 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.
Seeding The teams were seeded based on regular season conference winning percentage only. BYU claimed the second seed over San Diego State by winning the season series between the two teams. Team W L Pct. GB Seed 17 5 .773 14 8 .636 14 8 .636 12 10 .545 10 12 .455 9 13 .409 1 21 .045
Results Date Game Winner Score Loser Notes May 23 1 #6 8–5 #3 2 #2 7–5 #7 3 #5 17–2 #4 May 24 4 #3 San Diego State 26–1 #7 Air Force Air Force eliminated 5 #2 BYU 9–8 #6 Utah 6 #4 UNLV 8–5 #3 San Diego State San Diego State eliminated 7 #1 18–6 #5 New Mexico May 25 8 #5 New Mexico 12–10 #6 Utah Utah eliminated 9 #1 TCU 13–6 #2 BYU 10 #4 UNLV 8–6 #5 New Mexico New Mexico eliminated May 26 11 #2 BYU 10–4 #4 UNLV UNLV eliminated May 27 12 #1 TCU 9–6 #2 BYU TCU wins tournament
All-Tournament Team Name POS Team Stetson Banks 2B BYU Jeff Hiestand 1B BYU Patrick Wells RHP BYU Chris Carlson DH New Mexico Danny Ray Herrera LHP New Mexico Brad Furnish LHP TCU Ryan Pack OF TCU Andrew Walker C TCU Ryan Khoury SS Utah Steven Trout DH TCU Jabe Beard RP UNLV
Most Valuable Player Chad Huffman, a first baseman for the champion TCU Horned Frogs, was named the tournament Most Valuable Player.
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