2015 Southern Conference
baseball tournament
Teams9
Formattwo bracket Double-elimination tournament
with championship game
Finals site
ChampionsMercer (1st title)
2015 Southern Conference baseball standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L PCTW L PCT
Mercer   167 .6963121 .596
Samford   1410 .5832924 .547
Wofford   1310 .5653620 .643
VMI   1212 .5002028 .417
UNC Greensboro   1212 .5002325 .479
Furman   1113 .4582431 .436
Western Carolina   1113 .4582128 .429
The Citadel   1014 .4172528 .472
East Tennessee State   816 .3332134 .382
Tournament champion
As of May 16, 2015[1]
Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

The 2015 Southern Conference baseball tournament will be held from May 19 through 24 at Joseph P. Riley Jr. Park in Charleston, South Carolina. The annual event determines the conference champion of the Division I Southern Conference in college baseball. The tournament winner earns the league's bid to the 2015 NCAA Division I baseball tournament. This is the last of 20 athletic championships held by the conference in the 2013–14 academic year.[2]

The tournament was originally held from 1950–53, when the Southern Conference was a large conference composed of several small schools and several large schools, the latter of which would form the Atlantic Coast Conference after the 1953 season. The event was re-established in 1984 and has been held every year since. Western Carolina has claimed nine championships, the most of any school, with The Citadel close behind at eight tournament wins. Furman is the only other school current school with multiple championships, winning two. UNC Greensboro is the only current and returning member to never win a title. 2014 champion and six-time winner Georgia Southern, along with Elon (two titles), Appalachian State (1 title), and Davidson (no titles) departed the conference after the 2014 season. Mercer will make its first appearance in 2015, while East Tennessee State and VMI return to the league in 2015. Neither ETSU nor VMI won the event during their previous tenures in the league.

The tournament will be played in Charleston for the second year in a row after spending the previous two seasons in Greenville, South Carolina. Charleston has hosted the event more than any other city.[3]

Seeding and format

All nine teams will participate in the tournament, with the bottom two seeds playing a single-elimination play-in round. The remaining teams will then be divided into two brackets and play double-elimination tournaments. The winners of each bracket will play a single championship game.[4]

TeamWLPct.GBSeed
Mercer167.6961
Samford1410.5832.52
Wofford1310.56533
VMI1212.5004.54
UNC Greensboro1212.5004.55
Furman1113.4585.56
Western Carolina1113.4585.57
The Citadel1014.4176.58
East Tennessee State816.3338.59

Bracket

Play-In Round

Tuesday, May 19
TeamR
#9 East Tennessee State2
#8 The Citadel8

Bracket One

First roundSecond roundSemifinals
1Mercer3
8The Citadel2
1Mercer19
4VMI7
4VMI6
5UNC Greensboro5
1Mercer
8The Citadel
Lower round 1Lower final
8The Citadel10
8The Citadel84VMI5
5UNC Greensboro4

Bracket Two

First roundSecond roundSemifinals
2Samford810
7Western Carolina7
2Samford4
3Wofford3
3Wofford16
6Furman7
2Samford
3Wofford
Lower round 1Lower final
6Furman0
7Western Carolina43Wofford1
6Furman12

Final

Sunday, May 24
TeamR
#2 Samford0
#1 Mercer5

References

  1. "Baseball standings". SoConSports.com. Retrieved May 13, 2015.
  2. "2014-15 Southern Conference Championship Schedule". soconsports.com. Retrieved December 8, 2014.
  3. "2015 Baseball Championship". Southern Conference. Retrieved December 8, 2014.
  4. "2015 Southern Conference Baseball Championship Bracket" (PDF). Southern Conference. Retrieved December 8, 2014.
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