{"id":701878,"date":"2026-05-18T03:21:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T03:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/701878\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T03:21:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T03:21:14","slug":"2026-mvc-baseball-championship-bracket-set-in-murray-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/701878\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 MVC Baseball Championship bracket set in Murray | Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. LOUIS \u2013 The 2026 Missouri Valley Conference Baseball Championship, hosted by Murray State, and presented by Credit Union 1 and the Murray Convention and Visitor&#8217;s Bureau, will be held May 20-23, in Murray, Ky., at Johnny Reagan Field at Taylor Family Park.<\/p>\n<p>UIC won its first MVC baseball regular-season title, and first Conference title since 2017, finishing the season with a 16-8 ledger in Valley play. The Flames will be the top seed heading into next week\u2019s tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Indiana State, who won seven of eight MVC series this year, including its series with Murray State, will be the No. 2 seed and join the Flames with a first-round bye.<\/p>\n<p>The No. 3-seeded and tournament host Racers will face No. 6 Illinois State at 3 p.m. CT on Wednesday, after No. 4 Southern Illinois takes on No. 5 Evansville at 11 a.m. CT.<\/p>\n<p>The championship is a double-elimination format, featuring three games each on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, to set up Saturday&#8217;s championship.<\/p>\n<p>All games of the 2026 MVC Baseball Championship will be available on The Valley on ESPN. Fans can find the most up-to-date information on <a href=\"https:\/\/mvc-sports.com\/sports\/2026\/1\/7\/26BASEchamp.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MVC Championship Central<\/a>. Admission to all games of the tournament will be free.<\/p>\n<p>2026 MVC BASEBALL CHAMPIONSHIP SCHEDULE<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, May 20<\/p>\n<p>Game 1 | 11 a.m. CT \u2013 No. 4 Southern Illinois vs. No. 5 Evansville<\/p>\n<p>Game 2 | 3 p.m. CT \u2013 No. 3 Murray State vs. No. 6 Illinois State<\/p>\n<p>Game 3 | 7 p.m. CT* &#8211; Loser Game 1 vs. Loser Game 2<\/p>\n<p>Thursday, May 21<\/p>\n<p>Game 4 | 11 a.m. CT \u2013 No. 1 UIC vs. Winner No. 4\/5<\/p>\n<p>Game 5 | 3 p.m. CT \u2013 No. 2 Indiana State vs. Winner No. 3\/6<\/p>\n<p>Game 6 | 7 p.m. CT* &#8211; Loser Game 4\/5 (low seed) vs. Winner Game 3<\/p>\n<p>Friday, May 22<\/p>\n<p>Game 7 | 11 a.m. CT \u2013 Winner Game 4 vs. Winner Game 5<\/p>\n<p>Game 8 | 3 p.m. CT* \u2013 Loser Game 4\/5 (high seed) vs. Winner Game 6<\/p>\n<p>Game 9 | 7 p.m. CT* &#8211; Winner Game 8 vs. Loser Game 7<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, May 23<\/p>\n<p>Game 10 | 3 p.m. CT \u2013 Championship Game (Winner Game 7 vs. Winner Game 9)<\/p>\n<p>Game 11 | 7 p.m. CT \u2013 Championship Game (if necessary)<\/p>\n<p>*elimination game<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. LOUIS \u2013 The 2026 Missouri Valley Conference Baseball Championship, hosted by Murray State, and presented by Credit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":701879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2290],"tags":[5,1693,1703,8821,185],"class_list":{"0":"post-701878","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baseball","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-college","10":"tag-college-sports","11":"tag-msu","12":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116593431970468297","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=701878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/701879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}