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Marshall will play its first game of the tournament on Thursday against the winner of No. 7-seeded Coastal Carolina and No. 10-seeded Southern Miss at 2 p.m. in Troy, Alabama.

The top 10 teams qualified for the tournament. The full seeding breakdown is as follows with conference records.

• 1. Texas State (16-8)
• 2. Marshall (15-9)
• 3. Louisiana (14-10)
• 4. Louisiana-Monroe (14-10)
• 5. Georgia Southern (13-11)
• 6. Appalachian State (13-11)
• 7. Coastal Carolina (13-11)
• 8. Troy (12-12)
• 9. James Madison (11-13)
• 10. Southern Miss (10-13)

Coastal Carolina and Southern Miss will play their first-round game alongside No. 8-seeded Troy and No. 9 James Madison. The winners of those games move on to quarterfinal matchups with Marshall and No. 1 Texas State in the bracket.

If Marshall were to win, it would face the winner of No. 3 Louisiana and No. 6 Appalachian State. No. 4 Louisiana-Monroe or No. 5 Georgia Southern will face the Bobcats in the semifinals, presuming a chalk result.

All games prior to the championship will be broadcasted on ESPN+ while the championship will be on ESPN2 at 2:30 p.m. ET on Saturday, May 10.

Texas State and Louisiana-Monroe played the last two games of their SBC series to finalize the standings on Saturday. Following MarshallÈËÑýÉ«ÇéƬ™s tripleheader sweep of non-qualifier Georgia State on Friday, a split in those final games would have guaranteed a No. 1 seed for the Herd.

Instead, Texas State pulled off a road sweep and secured the top spot. The Warhawks, meanwhile, entered the day tied for first and ended up losing a four-seed tiebreaker with Louisiana, having lost the regular season series to the RaginÈËÑýÉ«ÇéƬ™ Cajuns.

Marshall defeated Texas State in their regular-season series. In terms of potential quarterfinal opponents, Coastal Carolina pulled off a series win against Marshall in mid-April ÈËÑýÉ«ÇéƬ” winning 2-0 and 5-3 while Marshall took a game 6-4.

The Herd also lost a series to Appalachian State in Boone, North Carolina, losing 9-1 and 12-8 while winning 12-10.

Marshall has won eight of its last 10 games, including seven of its last eight, and has hit 68 home runs this season. After a homer on Saturday, Rielly Lucas has tied with Bella GerlachÈËÑýÉ«ÇéƬ™s 2024 total of 15 homers for eighth-most in a season in Herd history.

Marshall hit 75 homers in 2022. Aside from that season, this yearÈËÑýÉ«ÇéƬ™s total is the most Marshall has hit since 2019, when it had 79 and Mya Stevenson set the Herd single-season record with 20.