2015 Southeastern Conference baseball tournament

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2015 Southeastern Conference
baseball tournament
2015 Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament Logo.svg
 
Teams12
Format See below
Finals site
Champions Florida  (7th title)
Winning coach Kevin O'Sullivan  (2nd title)
MVP J. J. Schwarz [1] (Florida)
Attendance132,178
Television ESPN2 (championship game)
2015 Southeastern Conference baseball standings
Conf.Overall
TeamW L PCTW L PCT
Eastern
No. 2 Vanderbilt  xy2010 .6675121 .708
No. 3 Florida  y1911 .6335218 .743
Missouri  1515 .5003028 .517
Kentucky  1415 .4833025 .545
South Carolina  1317 .4333225 .561
Tennessee  1118 .3792426 .480
Georgia  1019 .3452628 .481
Western
No. 5 LSU  xy218 .7245412 .818
No. 11 Texas A&M  y1810 .6435014 .781
No. 7 Arkansas  y1712 .5864025 .615
Ole Miss  y1514 .5173028 .517
Auburn  y1317 .4333626 .581
Alabama  1218 .4003228 .533
Mississippi State  822 .2672430 .444
x Division champion
Conference champion
Tournament champion
y Invited to the NCAA tournament
Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

The 2015 Southeastern Conference baseball tournament was held from May 19 through 24 at Hoover Metropolitan Stadium in Hoover, Alabama. The annual tournament determined the tournament champion of the Division I Southeastern Conference in college baseball. Florida, the tournament champion, earned the conference's automatic bid to the 2015 NCAA Division I baseball tournament. [2]

Contents

The tournament has been held every year since 1977, with LSU claiming eleven championships, the most of any school. Original members Georgia and Kentucky along with 1993 addition Arkansas have never won the tournament. This is the eighteenth consecutive year and twentieth overall that the event has been held at Hoover Metropolitan Stadium.

Format and seeding

The regular season division winners, LSU and Vanderbilt, claimed the top two seeds respectively and the next ten teams by conference winning percentage, regardless of division, will claim the remaining berths in the tournament. The bottom eight teams played a single-elimination opening round, followed by a double-elimination format until the semifinals, when the format reverted to single elimination through the championship game. This was the third year of this format. Auburn was seeded ninth ahead of South Carolina due to the tiebreaker they obtained by winning a regular season series against the Gamecocks in Columbia. [3] [4]

TeamW–LPctGB #1Seed
Eastern Division
Vanderbilt 20–10.6671.52
Florida 19–11.6332.54
Missouri 15–15.5006.57
Kentucky 14–15.48378
South Carolina 13–17.4338.510
Tennessee 11–18.3791012
Georgia 10–19.34511
TeamW–LPctGB #1Seed
Western Division
LSU 21–8.7241
Texas A&M 18–10.6432.53
Arkansas 17–12.58645
Ole Miss 15–14.51766
Auburn 13–17.4338.59
Alabama 12–18.4009.511
Mississippi State 8–22.26713.5

Bracket

First round
SECN
Second round
SECN
Third round
SECN
Semifinals
SECN
Final
ESPN2
3 Texas A&M4
6 Ole Miss 1 11 Alabama 3
11 Alabama63 Texas A&M6
2 Vanderbilt 1
2 Vanderbilt7
7 Missouri57 Missouri 6 10
10 South Carolina 1 3 Texas A&M 3
2 Vanderbilt12
11 Alabama4
7 Missouri 3
11 Alabama 1
2 Vanderbilt16 7
2 Vanderbilt 3
4 Florida7
1 LSU9
8 Kentucky 3 9 Auburn 8
9 Auburn61 LSU10
5 Arkansas 5
4 Florida 6
5 Arkansas25 Arkansas7
12 Tennessee 1 1 LSU 1
4 Florida2
9 Auburn 2
4 Florida11
4 Florida10
5 Arkansas 0 7

Schedule

GameTime*Matchup#TelevisionAttendance
Tuesday, May 19
19:30 a.m.#6 Ole Miss vs. #11 AlabamaSEC Network4,817 [5]
21 p.m.#7 Missouri vs. #10 South Carolina
34:30 p.m.#8 Kentucky vs. #9 Auburn5,761 [6]
48 p.m.#5 Arkansas vs. #12 Tennessee
Wednesday, May 20
59:30 a.m.#3 Texas A&M vs. #11 AlabamaSEC Network5,205 [7]
61 p.m.#2 Vanderbilt vs. #7 Missouri
74:30 p.m.#1 LSU vs. #9 Auburn10,142 [8]
88 p.m.#4 Florida vs. #5 Arkansas
Thursday, May 21
99:30 a.m.#11 Alabama vs. #7 MissouriSEC Network6,526 [9]
101 p.m.#9 Auburn vs. #4 Florida
114:30 p.m.#3 Texas A&M vs. #2 Vanderbilt8,361 [10]
128 p.m.#1 LSU vs. #5 Arkansas
Friday, May 22
133 p.m.#11 Alabama vs. #2 VanderbiltSEC Network10,329 [11]
146:30 p.m.#4 Florida vs. #5 Arkansas
Semifinals – Saturday, May 23
15Noon#2 Vanderbilt vs. #3 Texas A&MSEC Network10,949 [12]
163:30 p.m.#4 Florida vs. #1 LSU
Championship – Sunday, May 24
173:30 p.m.#2 Vanderbilt vs. #4 FloridaESPN210,590 [13]
*Game times in CDT. # – Rankings denote tournament seed.

All-Tournament Team

The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team.

Pos.PlayerSchool
SP A. J. Puk Florida
SPMatt KentTexas A&M
RPTaylor LewisFlorida
C/DH J. J. Schwarz Florida
1BZander WielVanderbilt
1B Pete Alonso Florida
2BJared FosterLSU
3BWill ToffeyVanderbilt
SS Dansby Swanson Vanderbilt
OF Jeren Kendall Vanderbilt
OF Bryan Reynolds Vanderbilt
OFTrey HarrisMissouri
OF Buddy Reed Florida

Bold is MVP.

References

  1. "Florida wins SEC Tourney". secsports.com. May 25, 2015. Retrieved May 25, 2015.
  2. "Alabama Baseball Announces Schedule for 2015". Alabama Crimson Tide. November 13, 2014. Retrieved January 11, 2015.
  3. "SEC Announces Format Change to Baseball Tournament". Tennessee Volunteers. December 19, 2011. Archived from the original on November 18, 2015. Retrieved January 11, 2015.
  4. "SEC adds two teams, changes format for postseason conference tournament". NCAA.com. December 22, 2012. Archived from the original on November 18, 2015. Retrieved January 11, 2015.
  5. Session 1 Attendance [ permanent dead link ]
  6. Session 2 Attendance
  7. Session 3 Attendance [ permanent dead link ]
  8. "Session 4 Attendance". Archived from the original on May 25, 2015. Retrieved May 21, 2015.
  9. "Session 5 Attendance". Archived from the original on May 27, 2015. Retrieved May 21, 2015.
  10. Session 6 Attendance
  11. "Session 7 Attendance". Archived from the original on May 27, 2015. Retrieved May 23, 2015.
  12. "Session 8 Attendance". Archived from the original on May 24, 2015. Retrieved May 24, 2015.
  13. "Session 9 Attendance". Archived from the original on May 28, 2015. Retrieved May 25, 2015.