2015 Southern Conference Baseball Tournament

2015 Southern Conference
Baseball Tournament
Classification Division I
Season 2015
Teams 9
Format two bracket Double-elimination tournament
with championship game
Site Joseph P. Riley, Jr. Park
Charleston, SC
Champions Mercer (1st title)
Southern Conference
Baseball Tournament
«2014  2016»
2015 Southern Conference baseball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   PCT     W   L   PCT
Mercer 16 – 7   .696     31 – 21   .596
Samford 14 – 10   .583     29 – 24   .547
Wofford 13 – 10   .565     36 – 20   .643
VMI 12 – 12   .500     20 – 28   .417
UNC Greensboro 12 – 12   .500     23 – 25   .479
Furman 11 – 13   .458     24 – 31   .436
Western Carolina 11 – 13   .458     21 – 28   .429
The Citadel 10 – 14   .417     25 – 28   .472
East Tennessee State 8 – 16   .333     21 – 34   .382
‡ – Tournament champion
As of May 16, 2015[1]; Rankings from Collegiate Basseball

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]

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]

Team W L Pct. GB Seed
Mercer 16 7 .696
–
1
Samford 14 10 .583
2.5
2
Wofford 13 10 .565
3
3
VMI 12 12 .500
4.5
4
UNC Greensboro 12 12 .500
4.5
5
Furman 11 13 .458
5.5
6
Western Carolina 11 13 .458
5.5
7
The Citadel 10 14 .417
6.5
8
East Tennessee State 8 16 .333
8.5
9

Bracket

Play-In Round

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

Bracket One

  First Round Second Round Semifinals
                             
1  Mercer 3  
8  The Citadel 2  
  1  Mercer 19  
  4  VMI 7  
4  VMI 6
5  UNC Greensboro 5  
  1  Mercer 8 –
  8  The Citadel 1 –
8  The Citadel 8  
5  UNC Greensboro 4  
  4  VMI 5
  8  The Citadel 10  

Bracket Two

  First Round Second Round Semifinals
                             
2  Samford 810  
7  Western Carolina 7  
  2  Samford 4  
  3  Wofford 3  
3  Wofford 16
6  Furman 7  
  2  Samford 8 25
  3  Wofford 12 4
7  Western Carolina 4  
6  Furman 12  
  3  Wofford 1
  6  Furman 0  

Final

Sunday, May 24
Team R
#2 Samford 0
#1 Mercer 5

References

  1. ↑ "Baseball standings". SoConSports.com. Retrieved May 13, 2015.
  2. ↑ "2014-15 Southern Conference Championship Schedule". soconsports.com. Retrieved December 8, 2014.
  3. ↑ "2015 Baseball Championship". Southern Conference. Retrieved December 8, 2014.
  4. ↑ "2015 Southern Conference Baseball Championship Bracket" (PDF). Southern Conference. Retrieved December 8, 2014.
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