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2025 Southern Conference baseball season

The 2025 Southern Conference baseball season is the baseball season for the Southern Conference as part of the 2025 NCAA Division I baseball season. UNC Greensboro was predicted to win the conference in the preseason poll.[1] The conference tournament will be played from May 21 to May 25 at Fluor Field at the West End in Greenville, South Carolina.[2]

Regular Season

The Southern Conference began conference play on March 21, and conference play will end on May 17. Each team is scheduled to play 21 conference games (three against each conference opponent home or away) barring any cancellations.

Conference Game Results and Standings

2025 Southern Conference baseball standings
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   PCT W   L   PCT
East Tennessee State  ‍‍‍ 11 – 4   .733 34 – 12   .739
The Citadel  ‍‍‍ 9 – 6   .600 25 – 20   .556
Samford  ‍‍‍ 9 – 6   .600 23 – 22   .511
UNC Greensboro  ‍‍‍ 7 – 6   .538 18 – 26   .409
Mercer  ‍‍‍ 9 – 8   .529 30 – 19   .612
Western Carolina  ‍‍‍ 6 – 9   .400 23 – 22   .511
Wofford  ‍‍‍ 5 – 9   .357 27 – 21   .563
VMI  ‍‍‍ 5 – 11   .313 26 – 21   .553
† – Conference champion
‡ – Tournament champion
y – Invited to the NCAA tournament
As of May 3, 2025[3]
Rankings from D1Baseball
Home \ Away CIT ETSU MER SAM UNCG VMI WCU WOF
The Citadel 0–0 2–1 3–0 1–2
East Tennessee State 2–1 1–2 0–0 3–0
Mercer 1–2 0–0 3–0 2–1
Samford 2–1 0–0 1–2
UNC Greensboro 0–0 0–0 3–0
VMI 0–0 1–2 1–2 1–2
Western Carolina 0–0 1–2 2–1
Wofford 0–0 0–3 0–0
Updated to match(es) played on May 1, 2025. Source: Southern Conference[4]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Red = away team win.

Tournament

The 2025 Southern Conference baseball tournament will be held from May 21 through May 25 at Fluor Field at the West End in Greenville, South Carolina. The winner of the conference tournament will receive an automatic bid to the 2025 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.

All eight SoCon baseball teams will participate in the tournament and will be [Seeding (sports)|seeded] based on conference record. The bottom four seeds will play in a single-elimination play-in round to begin the tournament. The two play-in round winners will then join the top four seeds in a six-team Double-elimination tournament, with the top two seeds receiving byes into the third round, and the third and fourth placed teams playing the play-in round winners in the second round.[2] The Wofford Terriers are defending champions, having won the 2024 edition of the tournament.

Seeding

Pos Team Pld CW CL CPCT GB W L PCT Qualification
1 East Tennessee State 46 11 4 .733 — 34 12 .739 Qualification for the third round
2 Mercer 47 9 6 .600 2 30 17 .638
3 Samford 44 9 6 .600 2 23 21 .523 Qualification for the second round
4 The Citadel 45 9 6 .600 2 25 20 .556
5 UNC Greensboro 43 7 5 .583 2.5 18 25 .419 Qualification for the play-in round
6 Western Carolina 44 6 9 .400 5 23 21 .523
7 VMI 46 5 10 .333 6 26 20 .565
8 Wofford 55 3 9 .250 6.5 25 30 .455
Source: Southern Conference[3]

Results updated to game(s) played on May 1, 2025. Seeds will not finalized until May 17, 2025.

Bracket

Play-in round
Wednesday, May 21		Second round
Thursday, May 22		Third round
Friday, May 23		Semifinals
Saturday, May 24		Final
Sunday May, 25
Game 5 - 9:00 a.m.
Game 3 - 3:00 p.m.1
Game 1 - 3:00 p.m.4
Game 9 - 12:00 p.m.
5
8
Game 6 - 12:30 p.m.
Game 4 - 7:00 p.m.2
Game 2 - 7:00 p.m.3
6Games 12/13 - 12:00 p.m.
7
Lower third round
Friday, May 23		Lower semifinal
Saturday, May 24		Lower final
Saturday, May 24
Game 7 - 4:00 p.m.
Game 11 - 7:00 p.m.
Game 10 - 3:30 p.m.
Game 8 - 7:30 p.m.

Game times are in EDT.
Rankings denote tournament seed.
Superscripted number next to scores denote games that use extra innings or the run rule.
Source: Southern Conference[2]

Schedule

Game Time* Matchup# Score Reference
Day 1 (Wednesday, May 21)
1 3:00 p.m. #5 vs. #8
2 7:00 p.m. #6 vs. #7
Day 2 (Thursday, May 22)
3 3:00 p.m. Winner Game 1 vs. #4
4 7:00 p.m. Winner Game 2 vs. #3
Day 3 (Friday, May 23)
5 9:00 a.m. Winner Game 3 vs. #1
6 12:30 p.m. Winner Game 4 vs. #2
7 4:00 p.m. Loser Game 4 vs. Loser Game 5
8 7:30 p.m. Loser Game 3 vs. Loser Game 6
Day 4 (Saturday, May 24)
9 12:00 p.m. Winner Game 5 vs. Winner Game 6
10 3:30 p.m. Winner Game 7 vs. Winner Game 8
11 7:00 p.m. Winner Game 10 vs. Loser Game 9
Day 5 (Sunday, May 25)
12 12:00 p.m. Winner Game 9 vs. Winner Game 11
13 3:30 p.m. Loser Game 12 vs. Winner Game 12 (if necessary)
* Game times are in EDT.
# Rankings denote tournament seed.
Superscripted number next to scores denote games that use extra innings or the run rule.
Source: Southern Conference[2]

Conference leaders

Updated to game(s) played on May 1, 2025. Includes conference and non-conference games.
Source: Southern Conference[5]
Note: AVG, OPS, ERA, and WHIP leaders must qualify for their respective leaderboards per the SoCon Baseball 2025 Statistics webpage.[5]

See also

References

  1. ^ "UNCG Predicted to win 2025 SoCon Baseball Title". soconsports.com. February 6, 2025. Retrieved March 23, 2025.
  2. ^ a b c d "2025 Baseball Championship presented by Holston Gases". soconsports.com. Retrieved March 23, 2025.
  3. ^ a b "SoCon Baseball 2025 Standings". soconsports.com. Retrieved May 1, 2025.
  4. ^ "SoCon Baseball 2025 Schedule". soconsports.com. Retrieved May 1, 2025.
  5. ^ a b "SoCon Baseball 2025 Statistics". soconsports.com. Retrieved May 1, 2025.