2015 Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament

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]

2015 Southeastern Conference
Baseball Tournament

Teams	12
Format	See below
Finals 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)

2015 Southeastern Conference baseball standings
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		PCT			W		L		PCT
Eastern
No. 2 Vanderbilt  ^x‍‍‍^y	20	–	10		.667			51	–	21		.708
No. 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
No. 5 LSU  ^x‍†‍‍^y	21	–	8		.724			54	–	12		.818
No. 11 Texas A&M  ‍‍‍^y	18	–	10		.643			50	–	14		.781
No. 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 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	6^10
	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	16^7
																					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	0^7

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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3. "SEC Announces Format Change to Baseball Tournament". Tennessee Volunteers. December 19, 2011. Retrieved January 11, 2015.
4. "SEC adds two teams, changes format for postseason conference tournament". NCAA.com. December 22, 2012. Archived from the original on November 18, 2015. Retrieved January 11, 2015.
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