2016 Southern Conference baseball tournament

2016 Southern Conference
baseball tournament

Teams	9
Format	two bracket Double-elimination tournament with championship game
Finals site	Fluor Field at the West End Greenville, SC

2016 Southern Conference baseball standings

	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		PCT			W		L		PCT
Mercer  ‍†‍‍	16	–	8		.667			38	–	23		.623
Western Carolina  ‍‍‡‍y	15	–	9		.625			31	–	31		.500
UNC Greensboro  ‍‍‍	15	–	9		.625			38	–	21		.644
Furman  ‍‍‍	14	–	10		.583			29	–	30		.492
Samford  ‍‍‍	13	–	11		.542			35	–	26		.574
East Tennessee State  ‍‍‍	13	–	11		.542			27	–	30		.474
Wofford  ‍‍‍	12	–	12		.500			30	–	28		.517
The Citadel  ‍‍‍	6	–	18		.250			17	–	42		.288
VMI  ‍‍‍	4	–	20		.167			21	–	35		.375
† – Conference champion ‡ – Tournament champion y – Invited to the NCAA tournament As of June 11, 2016 Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

The 2016 Southern Conference Baseball Tournament will be held from May 24 through May 29 at Fluor Field at the West End in Greenville, 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 2016 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament. This is the last of 20 athletic championships held by the conference in the 2015–16 academic year.

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. 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. Defending champion Mercer claimed the conference championship in its first ever appearance.

The tournament will be played in Greenville, which has hosted three of the past seven events.

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.

Bracket

Play-In Round

Tuesday, May 24

Team	R
#9	0
#8	0

Bracket One

First Round

Second Round

Semifinals

1

Play-in Winner

4

5

Lower round 1

Lower final

Bracket Two

	First Round					Second Round					Semifinals
	2
	7
	3
	6
	Lower round 1					Lower final

Final

Sunday, May 29

Team	R
	0
	0