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2025 Southern Conference baseball season
LeagueSouthern Conference
SportBaseball
Number of teams8
TV partner(s)ESPN+
Regular Season
Tournament
Seasons
2026 →

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

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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

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2025 Southern Conference baseball standings
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   PCT W   L   PCT
East Tennessee State  ‍‍‍ 2 – 1   .667 18 – 5   .783
VMI  ‍‍‍ 2 – 1   .667 16 – 8   .667
The Citadel  ‍‍‍ 2 – 1   .667 13 – 12   .520
Mercer  ‍‍‍ 1 – 2   .333 16 – 9   .640
Samford  ‍‍‍ 1 – 2   .333 13 – 11   .542
Western Carolina  ‍‍‍ 1 – 2   .333 11 – 13   .458
Wofford  ‍‍‍ 0 – 0   – 17 – 8   .680
UNC Greensboro  ‍‍‍ 0 – 0   – 10 – 13   .435
† – Conference champion
‡ – Tournament champion
y – Invited to the NCAA tournament
As of March 23, 2025[3]
Rankings from D1Baseball
Home \ Away CIT ETSU MER SAM UNCG VMI WCU WOF
The Citadel 0–0 2–1 0–0 0–0
East Tennessee State 2–1 0–0 0–0 0–0
Mercer 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0
Samford 0–0 0–0 0–0
UNC Greensboro 0–0 0–0 0–0
VMI 0–0 0–0 0–0 0–0
Western Carolina 0–0 1–2 0–0
Wofford 0–0 0–0 0–0
Updated to match(es) played on March 25, 2025. Source: Southern Conference[4]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Red = away team win.

Tournament

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2025 Southern Conference
baseball tournament
Teams8
FormatSingle elimination play-in, then six-team double-elimination tournament
Finals site
TelevisionESPN+

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

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Pos Team Pld CW CL CPCT GB W L PCT Qualification
1 East Tennessee State 23 2 1 .667 — 18 5 .783 Qualification for the third round
2 VMI 24 2 1 .667 — 16 8 .667
3 The Citadel 26 2 1 .667 — 14 12 .538 Qualification for the second round
4 Mercer 25 1 2 .333 1 16 9 .640
5 Samford 25 1 2 .333 1 13 12 .520 Qualification for the play-in round
6 Western Carolina 25 1 2 .333 1 12 13 .480
7 Wofford 26 0 0 — 0.5 18 8 .692
8 UNC Greensboro 24 0 0 — 0.5 10 14 .417
Source: Southern Conference[5]

Results updated to game(s) played on March 25, 2025. Seeds will not finalized until May 17, 2025.

Bracket

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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

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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

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Updated to game(s) played on March 25, 2025. Includes conference and non-conference games.
Source: Southern Conference[6]
Note: AVG, OPS, ERA, and WHIP leaders must qualify for their respective leaderboards per the SoCon Baseball 2025 Statistics webpage.[6]

See also

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References

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  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. ^ "Baseball standings". SoConSports.com. Retrieved March 24, 2025.
  4. ^ "SoCon Baseball 2025 Schedule". soconsports.com. Retrieved March 25, 2025.
  5. ^ "SoCon Baseball 2025 Standings". soconsports.com. Retrieved March 25, 2025.
  6. ^ a b "SoCon Baseball 2025 Statistics". soconsports.com. Retrieved March 25, 2025.
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