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2017 Southern Conference Baseball Tournament

2017 Southern Conference Baseball Tournament
Classification Division
Teams 9
Format two bracket Double-elimination tournament
with championship game
Site
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 14 10   .583     35 22   .614
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
As of May 28, 2017; Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

The 2017 Southern Conference Baseball Tournament will be held from May 23 through May 28 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 2017 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament. This is the last of 20 athletic championships held by the conference in the 2016–17 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. 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 2014.

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

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.


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