1996 Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament
1996 Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament | |||
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Classification | Division I | ||
Season | 1996 | ||
Teams | 8 | ||
Format | Play-in round followed by six-team double elimination | ||
Site | Hoover Metropolitan Stadium Hoover, Alabama | ||
Champions | Alabama (3rd title) | ||
Winning coach | Jim Wells (2nd title) | ||
MVP | Joe Caruso (Alabama) | ||
Attendance | 57,231[1] | ||
Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament
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The 1996 Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament was the 1996 postseason baseball championship of the NCAA Division I Southeastern Conference, held at Hoover Metropolitan Stadium in Hoover, Alabama from May 15-19. Alabama defeated Florida in the championship game, earning the conference's automatic bid to the 1996 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.[1][2]
Format
Eight teams qualified for the league tournament. The teams seeded fifth through eighth played a single-elimination play-in round. The two winners of the play-in games advanced to the main bracket, which was a six-team, double-elimination format, the same as the NCAA regional format used through 1998.
Regular season results
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Tournament
Play-in games
Play-In Game | ||||
6 | Kentucky | 7 | ||
7 | Arkansas | 5 | ||
Play-In Game | ||||
5 | Mississippi State | 8 | ||
8 | Vanderbilt | 5 | ||
Main bracket
1 | Alabama | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
6 | Kentucky | 2 | 1 | Alabama | 3 | |||||||||||||||||||
4 | Tennessee | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
2 | Florida | 6 | 1 | Alabama | 3 | |||||||||||||||||||
5 | Mississippi State | 5 | 2 | Florida | 7 | |||||||||||||||||||
2 | Florida | 6 | 2 | Florida | 5 | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
3 | LSU | 2 | 1 | Alabama | 10 | 15 | ||||||||||||||||||
3 | LSU | 3 | 1 | Alabama | 16 | |||||||||||||||||||
4 | Tennessee | 1 | 3 | LSU | 11 | 6 | Kentucky | 8 | ||||||||||||||||
6 | Kentucky | 4 | 6 | Kentucky | 12 | |||||||||||||||||||
5 | Mississippi State | 1 |
All-tournament team
Position | Player | School |
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1B | Chuck Hazzard | Alabama |
2B | Joe Caruso | Alabama |
3B | Travis Hayes | Kentucky |
SS | Brad Freeman | Mississippi State |
C | Eric Castaldo | Florida |
OF | Chad Green | Kentucky |
OF | Doug Hall | Alabama |
OF | Dustan Mohr | Alabama |
DH | Chris Moller | Alabama |
P | R.A. Dickey | Tennessee |
P | Eddie Yarnall | LSU |
MVP | Joe Caruso | Alabama |
See also
- College World Series
- NCAA Division I Baseball Championship
- Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament
References
- 1 2 3 4 "SEC Tournament History". SECDigitalNetwork.com. The Southeastern Conference. pp. 25–31. Retrieved 29 May 2012.
- ↑ "Hoover Wants to Keep SEC Baseball Tourney". The Times Daily. 6 May 1999. p. 4C. Archived from the original on 2012-05-29.
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- ↑ Nation, Boyd. "College Baseball Conference Standings -- 1996". BoydsWorld.com. Archived from the original on 2012-05-29. Retrieved 29 May 2012.
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