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2015 Southern Conference baseball tournament

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2015 Southern Conference
baseball tournament
Teams9
Formattwo bracket Double-elimination tournament
with championship game
Finals site
ChampionsMercer (1st title)
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 Baseball

The 2015 Southern Conference baseball tournament will be held from May 19 through 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

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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

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Play-In Round

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

Bracket One

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First roundSecond roundSemifinals
1Mercer3
8The Citadel2
1Mercer19
4VMI7
4VMI6
5UNC Greensboro5
1Mercer
8The Citadel
Lower round 1Lower final
8The Citadel10
8The Citadel84VMI5
5UNC Greensboro4

Bracket Two

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First roundSecond roundSemifinals
2Samford810
7Western Carolina7
2Samford4
3Wofford3
3Wofford16
6Furman7
2Samford
3Wofford
Lower round 1Lower final
6Furman0
7Western Carolina43Wofford1
6Furman12

Final

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

References

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  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.