The 2009 Southland Conference baseball tournament was held from May 20 through 23.
The top eight regular season finishers of the league's twelve teams met in the double-elimination tournament held at Whataburger Field in Corpus Christi, Texas.
The winner of the tournament, Sam Houston State, earned the conference's automatic bid to the 2009 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.
[2] The top eight finishers from the regular season were seeded one through eight.
They played a two bracket, double-elimination tournament, with the winner of each bracket meeting in a single championship final.