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, UNC Greensboro 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 East Tennessee State as 2024 SoCon Baseball Player of the Year.[4] Both the coaches and media selected Michael Ross of Samford as 2024 SoCon Baseball Pitcher of the Year, Daniel Jackson of Wofford as 2024 SoCon Baseball Freshman of the Year, and Cody Ellis of UNC Greensboro was voted 2024 SoCon Baseball Coach of the Year.[4]
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.[3] The Samford Bulldogs were defending champions, having won the 2023 edition of the tournament.
Both play-in round winners, the Wofford Terriers and Mercer Bears, 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 East Tennessee State Buccaneers and Western Carolina Catamounts 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 UNC Greensboro Spartans 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.[6]
* 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[3]