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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
ChampionsSamford (2nd title)
Winning coachCasey Dunn (2nd title)
MVPBrooks Carlson (Samford)
TelevisionSoCon DN
2018 Southern Conference baseball standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   PCT W   L   PCT
UNC Greensboro  ‍‍‍ 18 3   .857 37 13   .740
Samford  ‍‍‍ 16 8   .667 32 24   .571
Wofford  ‍‍‍ 15 9   .625 35 21   .625
VMI  ‍‍‍ 12 12   .500 26 25   .510
Mercer  ‍‍‍ 11 13   .458 35 20   .636
East Tennessee State  ‍‍‍ 11 13   .458 27 23   .540
Furman  ‍‍‍ 9 12   .429 24 26   .480
The Citadel  ‍‍‍ 8 16   .333 19 33   .365
Western Carolina  ‍‍‍ 5 19   .208 7 45   .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 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]

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

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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]

Team W L Pct GB Seed
UNC Greensboro 15 3 .833 - 1
Samford 12 6 .667 3 2
Wofford 11 7 .611 4 3
VMI 10 8 .556 5 4
East Tennessee State 9 9 .500 6 5
Mercer 10 11 .476 6.5 6
Furman 7 11 .389 8 7
The Citadel 6 12 .333 9 8
Western Carolina 4 17 .190 12.5 9

Bracket

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Play-In Round

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Tuesday, May 22
Team R
#9 Western Carolina 6
#8 The Citadel 5

Double-elimination round

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Upper round 1Upper round 2Upper finalFinal
1UNC Greensboro2
9Western Carolina10
9Western Carolina0
5Mercer157
4VMI0
5Mercer197
5Mercer3
2Samford10
3Wofford810
6East Tennessee State6
2Samford4
3Wofford0
2Samford4
7Furman02Samford12
5Mercer4
Lower round 1Lower round 2Lower round 3Lower final
1UNC Greensboro15
1UNC Greensboro113Wofford75Mercer10
4VMI71UNC Greensboro49Western Carolina2
9Western Carolina8
6East Tennessee State8
6East Tennessee State59Western Carolina11
7Furman2

References

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  1. ^ "Baseball standings". SoConSports.com. Retrieved November 6, 2017.
  2. ^ "2017-18 Southern Conference Championship Schedule". soconsports.com. Retrieved November 13, 2017.
  3. ^ "2018 Baseball Championship". Southern Conference. Retrieved November 13, 2017.
  4. ^ "2018 Southern Conference Baseball Championship Bracket" (PDF). Southern Conference. Retrieved November 13, 2017.