SPRINGFIELD, MO - The league's automatic berth in the NCAA postseason will be on the line when all eight teams descend on Hammons Field for the 2017 Missouri Valley Conference Baseball Championship, which will be hosted by #12 Missouri State Wednesday through Saturday night.
Bradley (20-29, 6-14 MVC), which has advanced to the tournament's final day in consecutive years for the first time in program history, will be the No. 7 seed this year and will be joined in tourney's Bracket A by No. 2 seed #29 Dallas Baptist (26-19, 15-6 MVC), No. 3 seed Indiana State (27-24, 12-9 MVC) and No.