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2017 Southern Conference baseball tournament

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2017 Southern Conference
baseball tournament
Teams9
Formattwo bracket Double-elimination tournament
with championship game
Finals site
ChampionsUNC Greensboro (1st title)
Winning coachLink Jarrett (1st title)
2017 Southern Conference baseball standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   PCT W   L   PCT
Mercer  ‍‍‍ 17 6   .739 39 17   .696
Western Carolina  ‍‍‍ 15 8   .652 28 28   .500
UNC Greensboro  ‍‍y 14 10   .583 36 24   .600
Furman  ‍‍‍ 14 10   .583 33 28   .541
Wofford  ‍‍‍ 13 11   .542 28 30   .483
Samford  ‍‍‍ 11 13   .458 33 26   .559
East Tennessee State  ‍‍‍ 9 15   .375 30 29   .508
The Citadel  ‍‍‍ 7 17   .292 16 35   .314
VMI  ‍‍‍ 7 17   .292 24 34   .414
† – Conference champion
‡ – Tournament champion
y – Invited to the NCAA tournament
Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

The 2017 Southern Conference baseball tournament was held from May 23 through 28 at Fluor Field at the West End in Greenville, South Carolina. The annual event determined the conference champion of the Division I Southern Conference in college baseball. The tournament winner earns the league's bid to the 2017 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.[1] This is the last of 20 athletic championships held by the conference in the 2016–17 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. 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, 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. Mercer claimed the conference championship in its first ever appearance in 2015.

The tournament will be played in Greenville, which has hosted four of the past eight events.[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]

Bracket

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Play-In Round

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Tuesday, May 23
Team R
#9 VMI 8
#8 The Citadel 0

Double-elimination round

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Upper round 1Upper round 2Upper finalFinal
1Mercer11
9VMI6
1Mercer1
4Furman6
4Furman137
5Wofford3
4Furman8
3UNC Greensboro12
3UNC Greensboro6
6Samford3
3UNC Greensboro6
7East Tennessee State4
2Western Carolina6
7East Tennessee State83UNC Greensboro413 7
4Furman61
Lower round 1Lower round 2Lower round 3Lower final
9VMI11
9VMI6107East Tennessee State124Furman8
5Wofford57East Tennessee State167East Tennessee State6
6Samford6
6Samford5
6Samford61Mercer4
2Western Carolina1

References

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  1. ^ "2017 Division I baseball conference tournaments, automatic qualifiers". NCAA. May 28, 2017. Retrieved September 2, 2017.
  2. ^ "2016-17 Southern Conference Championship Schedule". soconsports.com. Retrieved October 29, 2016.
  3. ^ "2017 Baseball Championship". Southern Conference. Retrieved October 29, 2016.
  4. ^ "2017 Southern Conference Baseball Championship Bracket" (PDF). Southern Conference. Retrieved October 29, 2016.