The 2015 Southeastern Conference baseball tournament was held from May 19 through 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.
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 to the tiebreaker they obtained by winning a regular season series against the Gamecocks in Columbia.
Team W–L Pct GB #1 Seed Eastern Division Vanderbilt 20–10 2 Florida 19–11 4 Missouri 15–15 7 14–15 8 South Carolina 13–17 10 11–18 12 10–19 – Team W–L Pct GB #1 Seed Western Division LSU 21–8 – 1 18–10 3 Arkansas 17–12 5 15–14 6 13–17 9 Alabama 12–18 11 Mississippi State 8–22 –
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Schedule Game Time* Matchup# Television Attendance Tuesday, May 19 1 9:30 a.m. #6 Ole Miss vs. #11 Alabama SEC Network 4,817 2 1 p.m. #7 Missouri vs. #10 South Carolina 3 4:30 p.m. #8 Kentucky vs. #9 Auburn 5,761Session 2 Attendance 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 6 1 p.m. #2 Vanderbilt vs. #7 Missouri 7 4:30 p.m. #1 LSU vs. #9 Auburn 10,142 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 10 1 p.m. #9 Auburn vs. #4 Florida 11 4:30 p.m. #3 Texas A&M vs. #2 Vanderbilt 8,361Session 6 Attendance 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 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 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 *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 Pete 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.
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