All six of the league's teams met in the double-elimination tournament held at San Diego State University's Tony Gwynn Stadium.
Top seeded BYU won their first Mountain West Conference Baseball Championship with a championship game score of 4–3 and earned the conference's new automatic bid to the 2001 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.
[2][3] The teams were seeded based on regular season conference winning percentage only.
Utah claimed the third seed over New Mexico by winning the season series.
[2][3] Nate Fernley, a pitcher for the champion BYU Cougars, was named the tournament Most Valuable Player after his complete game victory in the championship game.