2015 Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament

2015 Southeastern Conference
Baseball Tournament

 
Classification Division I
Season 2015
Teams 12
Format See below
Site Hoover Metropolitan Stadium
Hoover, AL
Champions Florida (7th title)
Winning coach Kevin O'Sullivan (2nd title)
MVP J. J. Schwarz[1] (Florida)
Attendance 132,178
Television ESPN2 (championship game)
Southeastern Conference
Baseball Tournament
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2015 Southeastern Conference baseball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   PCT     W   L   PCT
Eastern
#2 Vanderbilt xy 20 – 10   .667     51 – 21   .708
#3 Florida ‡y 19 – 11   .633     52 – 18   .743
Missouri 15 – 15   .500     30 – 28   .517
Kentucky 14 – 15   .483     30 – 25   .545
South Carolina 13 – 17   .433     32 – 25   .561
Tennessee 11 – 18   .379     24 – 26   .480
Georgia 10 – 19   .345     26 – 28   .481
Western
#5 LSU x†y 21 – 8   .724     54 – 12   .818
#11 Texas A&M y 18 – 10   .643     50 – 14   .781
#7 Arkansas y 17 – 12   .586     40 – 25   .615
Ole Miss y 15 – 14   .517     30 – 28   .517
Auburn y 13 – 17   .433     36 – 26   .581
Alabama 12 – 18   .400     32 – 28   .533
Mississippi State 8 – 22   .267     24 – 30   .444
x – Division champion
† – Conference champion
‡ – Tournament champion
y – Invited to the NCAA Tournament
Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

The 2015 Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament was held from May 19 through May 24 at Hoover Metropolitan Stadium in Hoover, Alabama. The annual tournament determined the tournament champion of the Division I Southeastern Conference in college baseball. Florida, the tournament champion, earned the conference's automatic bid to the 2015 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.[2]

The tournament has been held every year since 1977, with LSU claiming eleven championships, the most of any school. Original members Georgia and Kentucky along with 1993 addition Arkansas have never won the tournament. This is the eighteenth consecutive year and twentieth overall that the event has been held at Hoover Metropolitan Stadium.

Format and seeding

The regular season division winners, LSU and Vanderbilt, claimed the top two seeds respectively and the next ten teams by conference winning percentage, regardless of division, will claim the remaining berths in the tournament. The bottom eight teams played a single-elimination opening round, followed by a double-elimination format until the semifinals, when the format reverted to single elimination through the championship game. This was the third year of this format. Auburn was seeded ninth ahead of South Carolina due of the tiebreaker they obtained by winning a regular season series against the Gamecocks in Columbia. [3][4]

Team W–L Pct GB #1 Seed
Eastern Division
Vanderbilt
20–10
.667
1.5
2
Florida
19–11
.633
2.5
4
Missouri
15–15
.500
6.5
7
Kentucky
14–15
.483
7
8
South Carolina
13–17
.433
8.5
10
Tennessee
11–18
.379
10
12
Georgia
10–19
.345
11
–
Team W–L Pct GB #1 Seed
Western Division
LSU
21–8
.724
–
1
Texas A&M
18–10
.643
2.5
3
Arkansas
17–12
.586
4
5
Ole Miss
15–14
.517
6
6
Auburn
13–17
.433
8.5
9
Alabama
12–18
.400
9.5
11
Mississippi State
8–22
.267
13.5
–

Bracket

  First Round
SECN		 Second Round
SECN		 Third Round
SECN		 Semifinals
SECN		 Final
ESPN2
                                               
  3  Texas A&M 4  
    11  Alabama 3  
6  Ole Miss 1
11  Alabama 6  
  3  Texas A&M 6  
  2  Vanderbilt 1  
  2  Vanderbilt 7
    7  Missouri 610  
7  Missouri 5
10  South Carolina 1  
  3  Texas A&M 3  
  2  Vanderbilt 12  
11  Alabama 4
7  Missouri 3  
  11  Alabama 1
2  Vanderbilt 167  
2  Vanderbilt 3
4  Florida 7
  1  LSU 9  
    9  Auburn 8  
8  Kentucky 3
9  Auburn 6  
  1  LSU 10  
  5  Arkansas 5  
  4  Florida 6
    5  Arkansas 7  
5  Arkansas 2
12  Tennessee 1  
  1  LSU 1
  4  Florida 2  
9  Auburn 2
4  Florida 11  
  4  Florida 10
5  Arkansas 07  

Schedule

Game Time* Matchup# Television Attendance
Tuesday, May 19
1 9:30 a.m. #6 Ole Miss vs. #11 Alabama SEC Network 4,817[5]
2 1 p.m. #7 Missouri vs. #10 South Carolina
3 4:30 p.m. #8 Kentucky vs. #9 Auburn 5,761[6]
4 8 p.m. #5 Arkansas vs. #12 Tennessee
Wednesday, May 20
5 9:30 a.m. #3 Texas A&M vs. #11 Alabama SEC Network 5,205[7]
6 1 p.m. #2 Vanderbilt vs. #7 Missouri
7 4:30 p.m. #1 LSU vs. #9 Auburn 10,142[8]
8 8 p.m. #4 Florida vs. #5 Arkansas
Thursday, May 21
9 9:30 a.m. #11 Alabama vs. #7 Missouri SEC Network 6,526[9]
10 1 p.m. #9 Auburn vs. #4 Florida
11 4:30 p.m. #3 Texas A&M vs. #2 Vanderbilt 8,361[10]
12 8 p.m. #1 LSU vs. #5 Arkansas
Friday, May 22
13 3 p.m. #11 Alabama vs. #2 Vanderbilt SEC Network 10,329[11]
14 6:30 p.m. #4 Florida vs. #5 Arkansas
Semifinals – Saturday, May 23
15 Noon #2 Vanderbilt vs. #3 Texas A&M SEC Network 10,949[12]
16 3:30 p.m. #4 Florida vs. #1 LSU
Championship – Sunday, May 24
17 3:30 p.m. #2 Vanderbilt vs. #4 Florida ESPN2 10,590[13]
*Game times in CDT. # – Rankings denote tournament seed.

All-Tournament Team

The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team.

Pos. Player School
SP A. J. Puk Florida
SP Matt Kent Texas A&M
RP Taylor Lewis Florida
C/DH J. J. Schwarz Florida
1B Zander Wiel Vanderbilt
1B Peter Alonso Florida
2B Jared Foster LSU
3B Will Toffey Vanderbilt
SS Dansby Swanson Vanderbilt
OF Jeren Kendall Vanderbilt
OF Bryan Reynolds Vanderbilt
OF Trey Harris Missouri
OF Buddy Reed Florida

Bold is MVP.

References

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