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Tulane Earns Top Seed for American Baseball Championship

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – The Tulane Green Wave, which withstood a three-and-a-half-hour rain delay in a must-win game Saturday, claimed the American Athletic Conference regular-season title to earn the No. 1 seed for the 2016 American Athletic Conference Baseball Championship. The tournament begins Tuesday, May 24, at Bright House Field in Clearwater, Florida.

The 2016 tournament will be played in a double-elimination format through the semifinal round. The championship final is a winner-take-all matchup Sunday, May 29, which will determine The American's automatic entrant to the NCAA Championship.

Tuesday's tournament-opening doubleheader will be televised by CBS Sports Network.