The Southern Conference baseball tournament is the conference championship tournament in baseball for the
Southern Conference
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. The winner of the tournament receives the conference's automatic bid to the
NCAA Division I baseball tournament
The NCAA Division I Baseball Championship is held each year from May through June and features 64 college baseball teams in the United States, culminating in the eight-team Men's College World Series at Charles Schwab Field Omaha in Omaha, Neb ...
. The event is scheduled for the Tuesday through Saturday before
Memorial Day
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each year, five days prior to the
NCAA Regionals.
Tournament
The Southern Conference Baseball Tournament is held annually. Beginning in 2009, the top eight teams (eleven teams sponsor baseball in the conference) participated in a two-bracketed
double-elimination tournament
A double-elimination tournament is a type of elimination tournament competition in which a participant ceases to be eligible to win the tournament's championship upon having lost ''two'' games or matches. It stands in contrast to a single-elimi ...
. The previous format included ten teams participating in the tournament with the lowest four seeds (#7–#10) competing in a single elimination first round. The winner receives an automatic bid to the
NCAA Division I baseball tournament
The NCAA Division I Baseball Championship is held each year from May through June and features 64 college baseball teams in the United States, culminating in the eight-team Men's College World Series at Charles Schwab Field Omaha in Omaha, Neb ...
while the other teams must rely on an at-large bid.
History
The Southern Conference first held a baseball tournament in 1950. Maryland and Virginia Tech from the North division, and Clemson and Wake Forest from the South played the inaugural year in
Greensboro, North Carolina
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, with Wake Forest defeating Maryland for the title. In 1951, Clemson, Duke, Maryland, and West Virginia met, with Duke defeating Clemson in the final. Duke repeated their title in 1952, over N.C. State, George Washington, and Richmond. Duke, George Washington, Maryland, and North Carolina participated in 1953, with Duke again the winner.
The tournament was renewed in 1984 as a four-team tournament. The tournament was held at
Joseph P. Riley Jr. Park in
Charleston, South Carolina, from 1997 to 2008, and again in 2010 and 2011.
Champions
By year
By school
*''Italics indicate the school no longer sponsors baseball in the SoCon''
Composite Records
''Current schools only, 1984 through 2015''
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See also
*
List of Southern Conference football champions
*
List of Southern Conference men's basketball champions
This is a list of regular season and tournament champions in men's basketball of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Southern Conference
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References
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