What? C-USA Champ. Game Canceled?

[Brad]

From the C-USA site:

Tulane and TCU Share Conference USA Baseball Tournament Championship

Tulane and TCU have been declared co-champions of the 2005 Conference USA Tournament presented by POWERade. Tulane will receive the conference’s automatic bid to the NCAA Championship based on being the highest remaining seed in the tournament. Severe thunderstorms, hail and lightning all moved through the Hattiesburg area on Sunday afternoon, causing the field to be deemed unplayable following a review by tournament officials, umpires and coaches.

This marks the first time in Conference USA history that a championship game in any sport was unable to be completed due to weather-related issues.

For Tulane, this will be the Green Wave’s fifth C-USA tournament title, as the Green Wave also won tourney championships in 1996, 1998, 1999 and 2001. It marks TCU’s second consecutive Conference USA baseball tournament championship.

Tulane’s Nathan Southard was named Tournament Most Valuable Player. Southard became just the second player in Conference USA Tournament history to his three home runs in a game during Saturday’s 10-1 win over Houston. He batted .538 (7-for-13) in the tournament with six RBI and six runs scored.

Tulane and TCU each placed four members on the All-Tournament team, while Southern Miss had two selections and East Carolina, Houston and USF placed one player on the squad.

[Markeymark]

I wonder how that affects the NCAA tournament selection process? I would assume that they were both considered solid shoo-in's or they wouldn't have done this.

[NormalBull]

let's hand the championship to the school that is staying in CDOA and screw the one that is leaving.  Another Bano classy, clueless move.  I bet TCU is just as glad to climb out of the cess pool as we are.

Normal

[bulls96go]

bush

[Brad]

Right up there with Selig...

[Jamie]

Both teams were going to the NCAAs anyway. Tulane could have lost 50-0 and still hosted a regional. The game only meant something as far as winning the conference tournament.

Still pretty funny that C-USA's last event as we know it got rained out.

[The_Reaper]

CUSA NCAA? What's the difference?  It's still a racket! Where's Elliot Ness when we need him!    

[bullwark]

Would the PAC-10, the Big Ten, the SEC, or the Big East cancel a conference championship game, NO.  You have to feel for the athletes, to work so hard and play to get there and then have the "rug" pulled out from under them is inexcusable.

[Rabbi Bull]

thats total ********, if anything u postpone the game until the lightning and rain has moved out, and the game conditions are considered playable again, thats total ******** of them to do that to the players, postpone the game and then play it

[CyberBull]

What do you expect from a bush league conference like C-DOA?

I feel bad for Tulane.