2017 Southern Conference Baseball Tournament

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2017 Southern Conference
Baseball Tournament
Teams9
Formattwo bracket Double-elimination tournament
with championship game
Finals site
Champions UNC Greensboro  (1st title)
Winning coach Link Jarrett  (1st title)
MVP()
2017 Southern Conference baseball standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L PCTW L PCT
Mercer  ‍†‍‍17–6 .73939–17 .696
Western Carolina  ‍‍‍15–8 .65228–28 .500
UNC Greensboro  ‍‍‡‍y14–10 .58336–24 .600
Furman  ‍‍‍14–10 .58333–28 .541
Wofford  ‍‍‍13–11 .54228–30 .483
Samford  ‍‍‍11–13 .45833–26 .559
East Tennessee State  ‍‍‍9–15 .37530–29 .508
The Citadel  ‍‍‍7–17 .29216–35 .314
VMI  ‍‍‍7–17 .29224–34 .414
† – Conference champion
‡ – Tournament champion
y – Invited to the NCAA Tournament
Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

The 2017 Southern Conference Baseball Tournament was held from May 23 through May 28 at Fluor Field at the West End in Greenville, South Carolina. The annual event determined the conference champion of the Division I Southern Conference in college baseball. The tournament winner earns the league's bid to the 2017 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament. [1] This is the last of 20 athletic championships held by the conference in the 2016–17 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. Defending champion Western Carolina has claimed ten 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, having won two. East Tennessee State, UNC Greensboro, and VMI have never won a title, although East Tennessee State and VMI returned to the conference in 2015 after over ten years in other conferences. Mercer claimed the conference championship in its first ever appearance in 2015.

The tournament will be played in Greenville, which has hosted four of the past eight events. [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]

Bracket

Play-In Round

Tuesday, May 23
Team R
#9 VMI8
#8 The Citadel0

Double-elimination round

 First round  Second round  Third round  Semifinals  Finals
                         
 Winner's bracket
 1 Mercer 11 
 9 VMI 6  
   1Mercer1 
   4Furman6  
 4 Furman 137     
 5 Wofford 3    
   4Furman8      
   3UNC Greensboro12       
 3 UNC Greensboro 6       
 6 Samford 3        
   3UNC Greensboro6     
   7East Tennessee State4    
 2 Western Carolina 6     
 7 East Tennessee State 8    3UNC Greensboro4137
   4Furman61
 Loser's bracket   
 9VMI610    
 5Wofford5  9VMI11    
  7East Tennessee State12     
   7East Tennessee State16    
 6Samford6    6Samford6  4Furman8  
 2Western Carolina1  6Samford5    7East Tennessee State6 
  1Mercer4 

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References

  1. ↑ "2017 Division I baseball conference tournaments, automatic qualifiers". NCAA. May 28, 2017. Retrieved September 2, 2017.
  2. ↑ "2016-17 Southern Conference Championship Schedule". soconsports.com. Retrieved October 29, 2016.
  3. ↑ "2017 Baseball Championship". Southern Conference. Retrieved October 29, 2016.
  4. ↑ "2017 Southern Conference Baseball Championship Bracket" (PDF). Southern Conference. Retrieved October 29, 2016.
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