The 2001 Atlantic 10 Conference Baseball Championship was held at Cracker Jack Stadium in Kissimmee, Florida, from May 17 through 19. It featured the top four regular-season finishers of the conference's 11 teams. 2001 was the final season that the tournament had four teams; in 2002, it moved to a six-team format. Third-seeded Richmond defeated George Washington in the title game to win the tournament for the third time, earning the Atlantic 10's automatic bid to the 2001 NCAA tournament.
Seeding The league's top four teams, based on winning percentage in the 22-game regular-season schedule, were seeded one through four. In the tie for third place, the conference's tiebreakers gave Dayton the second seed over Temple.
Team W L Pct. GB Seed Massachusetts 16 6 Dayton 15 7 Temple 15 7 George Washington 13 9 St. Bonaventure 12 10 Rhode Island 10 12 Saint Joseph's 10 12 Fordham 10 12 Xavier 8 14 Duquesne 6 16 La Salle 6 16
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All-Tournament Team The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team. Temple third baseman Kyle Sweppenhiser, one of five Owls selected, was named Most Outstanding Player.
This was the second time Sweppenhiser was selected to the time, after having first been selected in 1999 George Washington's Mike Bassett and Dan Rouhier were both named for the second time. Bassett was first selected in 2000, Rouhier in 1998.
Pos. Name Team OF Mike Bassett George Washington DH Travis Crowder George Washington 1B Robert Cucinotta Temple C Jeff Fertitta George Washington OF Joe Lyall Temple P Greg Powell Temple OF/1B Dan Rouhier George Washington 2B Adam Stojanowski Massachusetts 3B Kyle Sweppenhiser Temple SS Jim Tully Temple OF Brooks Vogel Dayton SS Jake Wald George Washington
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