2024 Southern Conference baseball season

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2024 Southern Conference baseball season
League Southern Conference
SportBaseball
Number of teams8
TV partner(s) ESPN+
Regular Season
Season champions UNC Greensboro
Season MVPCaleb Cozart (UNCG) (Coaches);
Cameron Sisneros (ETSU) (Media)
Tournament
Champions Wofford
  Runners-up Samford
Finals MVPZac Cowan (WOF)
Seasons
2025 →

The 2024 Southern Conference baseball season is the baseball season for the Southern Conference as part of the 2024 NCAA Division I baseball season. Samford was predicted to win the conference in the preseason poll. [1] The conference tournament was played from May 22 to May 26 at Fluor Field at the West End in Greenville, South Carolina. [2]

Contents

Regular Season

The Southern Conference began conference play on March 22, and conference play ended on May 18. Each team was scheduled to play 21 conference games, barring any cancellations.

In regular season play, UNC Greensboro won the outright SoCon regular season title by one game. The eight SoCon baseball coaches voted Caleb Cozart of UNC Greensboro as 2024 SoCon Player of the Year, while the SoCon Sports Media Association voted Cameron Sisneros of East Tennessee State as 2024 SoCon Baseball Player of the Year. [3] Both the coaches and media selected Michael Ross of Samford as 2024 SoCon Baseball Pitcher of the Year, Daniel Jackson of Wofford as 2024 SoCon Baseball Freshman of the Year, and Cody Ellis of UNC Greensboro was voted 2024 SoCon Baseball Coach of the Year. [3]

Standings

PosTeamPldCWCLCPCTGBWLPCTQualification
1 UNC Greensboro (C)52156.714—3319.635Qualification for the third round
2 Samford 54147.66713420.630
3 East Tennessee State 52138.61923418.654Qualification for the second round
4 Western Carolina 52138.61922824.538
5 Wofford (T)52128.6002.53517.673Qualification for the play-in round & NCAA tournament
6 VMI 55714.33382728.491Qualification for the play-in round
7 Mercer 53614.3008.52627.491
8 The Citadel 52318.143122131.404
Source: Southern Conference [4]
(C) Regular season champion(s); (T) Tournament champion

Conference Game Results

Home \ Away CIT ETSU MER SAM UNCG VMI WCU WOF
The Citadel 0–30–30–3
East Tennessee State 3–02–13–0
Mercer 1–21–21–1 [lower-alpha 1]
Samford 2–12–13–01–2
UNC Greensboro 2–12–12–13–0
VMI 2–11–22–1
Western Carolina 1–23–01–21–2
Wofford 3–02–12–11–2
Updated to match(es) played on May 19, 2024. Source: Southern Conference [5]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Red = away team win.
Notes:
  1. ↑ The final game of the MER-WOF series was cancelled due to inclement weather.

Tournament

2024 Southern Conference
baseball tournament
Teams8
Format Single-elimination play-in, then six-team double-elimination tournament with championship game
Finals site
Champions Wofford  (2nd title)
Winning coachJ.J. Edwards (1st title)
MVP Zac Cowan (WOF)
Television ESPN+

The 2024 Southern Conference baseball tournament was held from May 22 through May 26 at Fluor Field at the West End in Greenville, South Carolina. The winner of the conference tournament received an automatic bid to the 2024 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.

All eight SoCon baseball teams participated in the tournament, with the bottom four seeds playing in a single-elimination play-in round. The remaining teams then played a six-team double-elimination tournament, with the top two seeds receiving byes into the third round, and the third and fourth placed teams playing the play-in round winners in the second round. [2] The Samford Bulldogs were defending champions, having won the 2023 edition of the tournament.

Both play-in round winners, the Wofford Terriers and Mercer Bears, made it to at least the second-to-last day of the tournament, with Mercer losing in the third round and the lower semifinal, and Wofford losing their semifinal matchup to Samford before beating the Bulldogs twice in the championship.

The East Tennessee State Buccaneers and Western Carolina Catamounts both received byes into the second round, but fell to their opponents from the play-in round. The Buccaneers made it all the way to the lower final after their initial defeat, but the Catamounts fell to Mercer in their next game.

The UNC Greensboro Spartans and Samford Bulldogs received byes into the third round as the top two regular season teams. The Spartans lost both of their games, while the Bulldogs won all of their games up until the championship series against Wofford, where they lost two games to the Terriers.

With these two wins in the championship, Wofford won their first SoCon tournament title since 2007, which until this year, was their only SoCon tournament victory and NCAA tournament berth in program history. Wofford right-handed pitcher Zac Cowan received the Walt Nadzak Award, which is named after Walt Nadzak and awarded to the tournament's most outstanding player. [6]

Bracket

Play-in roundSecond roundThird roundSemifinalsFinal
Game 5
Game 31 UNC Greensboro 2
Game 14 Western Carolina 15Wofford5
Game 9
5 Wofford 85Wofford127
5Wofford1
8 The Citadel 3
2Samford10
Game 6
Game 42 Samford 9
Game 23 East Tennessee State 47Mercer7
6 VMI 147Mercer7Games 12 and 13
7 Mercer 192Samford99
5Wofford1015
Lower third roundLower semifinalLower final
Game 7
3East Tennessee State10Game 11
1UNC Greensboro7Game 105Wofford13
3East Tennessee State123East Tennessee State10
Game 87Mercer4
4Western Carolina8
7Mercer10

Source: Southern Conference [2]

Schedule

GameTime*Matchup#ScoreReference
Day 1 (Wednesday, May 22)
13:00 p.m.#5 Wofford vs. #8 The Citadel8-3 [7]
27:00 p.m.#6 VMI vs. #7 Mercer14-19 [7]
Day 2 (Thursday, May 23)
33:00 p.m.#5 Wofford vs. #4 Western Carolina12-17 [8]
47:00 p.m.#7 Mercer vs. #3 East Tennessee State7-4 [8]
Day 3 (Friday, May 24)
59:00 a.m.#5 Wofford vs. #1 UNC Greensboro5-2 [9]
612:30 p.m.#7 Mercer vs. #2 Samford7-9 [9]
74:00 p.m.#3 East Tennessee State vs. #1 UNC Greensboro10-7 [10]
87:30 p.m.#4 Western Carolina vs. #7 Mercer8-10 [10]
Day 4 (Saturday, May 25)
912:00 p.m.#5 Wofford vs. #2 Samford1-10 [11]
103:30 p.m.#3 East Tennessee State vs. #7 Mercer12-4 [12]
117:00 p.m.#5 Wofford vs. #3 East Tennessee State13-10 [12]
Day 5 (Sunday, May 26)
1212:00 p.m.#2 Samford vs. #5 Wofford9-10 [6]
133:40 p.m.#2 Samford vs. #5 Wofford9-15 [6]
* Game times are in EDT.
# Rankings denote tournament seed.
Superscripted number next to scores denote games that use extra innings or the run rule.
Source: Southern Conference [2]

Conference leaders

Conference leaders statistics include all regular season and SoCon tournament games, as of May 19, 2024.

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