The 2024 Southern Conference baseball season was the baseball season for the Southern Conference as part of the 2024 NCAA Division I baseball season. was predicted to win the conference in the preseason poll. The conference tournament was played from May 22 to May 26 at Fluor Field at the West End in Greenville, South Carolina.

Regular season The Southern Conference began conference play on March 22, and conference play ended on May 18. Each team was scheduled to play 21 conference games, barring any cancellations.

In regular season play, won the outright SoCon regular season title by one game. The eight SoCon baseball coaches voted Caleb Cozart of UNC Greensboro as 2024 SoCon Player of the Year, while the SoCon Sports Media Association voted Cameron Sisneros of as 2024 SoCon Baseball Player of the Year. Both the coaches and media selected Michael Ross of as 2024 SoCon Baseball Pitcher of the Year, Daniel Jackson of as 2024 SoCon Baseball Freshman of the Year, and Cody Ellis of UNC Greensboro was voted 2024 SoCon Baseball Coach of the Year.

Standings

Conference Game Results

Tournament

The 2024 Southern Conference baseball tournament was held from May 22 through May 26 at Fluor Field at the West End in Greenville, South Carolina. The winner of the conference tournament received an automatic bid to the 2024 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.

All eight SoCon baseball teams participated in the tournament, with the bottom four seeds playing in a single-elimination play-in round. The remaining teams then played 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. The were defending champions, having won the 2023 edition of the tournament.

Both play-in round winners, the and , made it to at least the second-to-last day of the tournament, with Mercer losing in the third round and the lower semifinal, and Wofford losing their semifinal matchup to Samford before beating the Bulldogs twice in the championship.

The and both received byes into the second round, but fell to their opponents from the play-in round. The Buccaneers made it all the way to the lower final after their initial defeat, but the Catamounts fell to Mercer in their next game.

The and Samford Bulldogs received byes into the third round as the top two regular season teams. The Spartans lost both of their games, while the Bulldogs won all of their games up until the championship series against Wofford, where they lost two games to the Terriers.

With these two wins in the championship, Wofford won their first SoCon tournament title since 2007, which until this year, was their only SoCon tournament victory and NCAA tournament berth in program history. Wofford right-handed pitcher Zac Cowan received the Walt Nadzak Award, which is named after Walt Nadzak and awarded to the tournament's most outstanding player.

Bracket Source: Southern Conference

Schedule GameTime*Matchup#ScoreReference Day 1 (Wednesday, May 22) 1 3:00 p.m. No. 5 Wofford vs. No. 8 The Citadel 8-3 2 7:00 p.m. No. 6 VMI vs. No. 7 Mercer 14-19 Day 2 (Thursday, May 23) 3 3:00 p.m. No. 5 Wofford vs. No. 4 Western Carolina 12-17 4 7:00 p.m. No. 7 Mercer vs. No. 3 East Tennessee State 7-4 Day 3 (Friday, May 24) 5 9:00 a.m. No. 5 Wofford vs. No. 1 UNC Greensboro 5-2 6 12:30 p.m. No. 7 Mercer vs. No. 2 Samford 7-9 7 4:00 p.m. No. 3 East Tennessee State vs. No. 1 UNC Greensboro 10-7 8 7:30 p.m. No. 4 Western Carolina vs. No. 7 Mercer 8-10 Day 4 (Saturday, May 25) 9 12:00 p.m. No. 5 Wofford vs. No. 2 Samford 1-10 10 3:30 p.m. No. 3 East Tennessee State vs. No. 7 Mercer 12-4 11 7:00 p.m. No. 5 Wofford vs. No. 3 East Tennessee State 13-10 Day 5 (Sunday, May 26) 12 12:00 p.m. No. 2 Samford vs. No. 5 Wofford 9-10 13 3:40 p.m. No. 2 Samford vs. No. 5 Wofford 9-15 * 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

Conference leaders

+ Hitting leaders Stat Player Total AVG Nick Iannantone () .387 HR Cameron Sisneros () 23 RBI Cameron Sisneros () 86 R Marshall Toole () 83 H Brice Martinez () 97 SB Marshall Toole () 43

+ Pitching leaders Stat Player Total W Michael Ross () 13 L Trey Morgan () 7 ERA Michael Ross () 3.27 K Zac Cowan () 124 IP Zac Cowan () 110.0 SV Bryant Olson ()Carson Lore () 8

See also 2024 in baseball

References