The tournament continued the round robin format from the previous season.
Fifth seeded Louisiana–Monroe won their first tournament championship and earned the Sun Belt Conference's automatic bid to the 2012 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.
Teams were divided into two four-team pods for round-robin play.
The teams with the best record in each pod then met in a championship game.
If multiple teams shared the best record, head-to-head matchups were used as the first tiebreaker.