2015 Southern Conference Baseball Tournament

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2015 Southern Conference
Baseball Tournament
Teams9
Formattwo bracket Double-elimination tournament
with championship game
Finals site
Champions Mercer  (1st title)
MVP()
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 May 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]

Contents

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
Mercer 167.6961
Samford 1410.5832.52
Wofford 1310.56533
VMI 1212.5004.54
UNC Greensboro 1212.5004.55
Furman 1113.4585.56
Western Carolina 1113.4585.57
The Citadel 1014.4176.58
East Tennessee State 816.3338.59

Bracket

Play-In Round

Tuesday, May 19
Team R
#9 East Tennessee State 2
#8 The Citadel 8

Bracket One

 First RoundSecond RoundSemifinals
               
1 Mercer 3 
8The Citadel2 
 1Mercer19 
 4VMI7 
4 VMI 6
5 UNC Greensboro 5 
 1Mercer8
 8The Citadel1
8The Citadel8 
5UNC Greensboro4 
 8The Citadel10
 4VMI5 

Bracket Two

 First RoundSecond RoundSemifinals
               
2 Samford 810 
7 Western Carolina 7 
 2Samford4 
 3Wofford3 
3 Wofford 16
6 Furman 7 
 2Samford825
 3Wofford124
7Western Carolina4 
6Furman12 
 6Furman0
 3Wofford1 

Final

Sunday, May 24
Team R
#2 Samford0
#1 Mercer5

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