2018 Southern Conference Baseball Tournament

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2018 Southern Conference
Baseball Tournament
Teams9
Formattwo bracket Double-elimination tournament
with championship game
Finals site
Champions Samford  (2nd title)
Winning coach Casey Dunn  (2nd title)
MVPBrooks Carlson (Samford)
TelevisionSoCon DN
2018 Southern Conference baseball standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L PCTW L PCT
UNC Greensboro  183 .8573713 .740
Samford  168 .6673224 .571
Wofford  159 .6253521 .625
VMI  1212 .5002625 .510
Mercer  1113 .4583520 .636
East Tennessee State  1113 .4582723 .540
Furman  912 .4292426 .480
The Citadel  816 .3331933 .365
Western Carolina  519 .208745 .135
Tournament champion
As of May 19, 2018 [1] ; Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

The 2018 Southern Conference Baseball Tournament was held from May 22 through May 27 at Fluor Field at the West End in Greenville, South Carolina. The annual event determines the conference champion of the Southern Conference (SoCon) in NCAA Division I college baseball. Samford won their second tournament championship and earned the league's bid to the 2018 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament. This was the last of 20 athletic championships held by the conference in the 2017–18 academic year. [2]

Contents

The tournament was originally held from 1950-53, when the SoCon 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 and VMI have never won a title, although they both 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 was played in Greenville, which had hosted five of the previous nine events. [3]

Seeding and format

All nine teams participated in the tournament, with the bottom two seeds playing a single-elimination play-in round. The remaining teams were then divided into two brackets and played double-elimination tournaments. [4]

TeamWLPctGBSeed
UNC Greensboro 153.833-1
Samford 126.66732
Wofford 117.61143
VMI 108.55654
East Tennessee State 99.50065
Mercer 1011.4766.56
Furman 711.38987
The Citadel 612.33398
Western Carolina 417.19012.59

Bracket

Play-In Round

Tuesday, May 22
Team R
#9 Western Carolina6
#8 The Citadel5

Double-elimination round

 First Round  Second Round  Third Round  Semifinals  Finals
                         
 Winner's Bracket
 1 UNC Greensboro 2 
 9 Western Carolina 10  
   9Western Carolina0 
   5Mercer157  
 4 VMI 0     
 5 Mercer 197    
   5Mercer3      
   2Samford10       
 3 Wofford 810       
 6 East Tennessee State 6        
   2Samford4     
   3Wofford0    
 2 Samford 4     
 7 Furman 0    2Samford12
   5Mercer4
 Loser's Bracket   
 1UNC Greensboro11    
 4VMI7  1UNC Greensboro15    
  3Wofford7     
   1UNC Greensboro4    
 6East Tennessee State5    9Western Carolina8  5Mercer10  
 7Furman2  6East Tennessee State8    9Western Carolina2 
  9Western Carolina11 

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