Green Wave rolling into C-USA tourney|[5/24/05]

Published 12:00 am Tuesday, May 24, 2005

By Staff Reports

From staff reports

An automatic NCAA regional berth will be on the line as Conference USA’s eight best teams vie for the league title at Pete Taylor Park in Hattiesburg.

Top-ranked Tulane (47-9) won the regular season championship and has won every Conference USA series this season except one.

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The Green Wave will open the tournament against UAB at 12:30 Wednesday afternoon. Houston and East Carolina will start the tournament at 9 a.m.

Southern Miss, which finished third in the regular season standings, will play South Florida in Wednesday’s final game at 7:30 p.m. The winner of that game will play either Texas Christian or Louisville on Thursday.

The double-elimination tournament will end on Sunday with a 1 p.m. championship game.

The Green Wave has been ranked in the Top 3 for most of the season and have completed five conference sweeps.

Tulane is coming off two wins over TCU in the final regular season weekend.

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