2017 Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament

2017 Southeastern Conference
Baseball Tournament
Classification Division I
Season 2017
Teams 12
Format See below
Site Hoover Metropolitan Stadium
Hoover, AL
Southeastern Conference
Baseball Tournament
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2017 Southeastern Conference baseball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   PCT     W   L   PCT
Eastern
Florida 0 0       0 0  
Georgia 0 0       0 0  
Kentucky 0 0       0 0  
Missouri 0 0       0 0  
South Carolina 0 0       0 0  
Tennessee 0 0       0 0  
Vanderbilt 0 0       0 0  
Western
Alabama 0 0       0 0  
Arkansas 0 0       0 0  
Auburn 0 0       0 0  
LSU 0 0       0 0  
Mississippi State 0 0       0 0  
Ole Miss 0 0       0 0  
Texas A&M 0 0       0 0  
Tournament champion
As of October 29, 2016[1]; Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

The 2017 Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament will be held from May 23 through May 28 at Hoover Metropolitan Stadium in Hoover, Alabama. The annual tournament determines the tournament champion of the Division I Southeastern Conference in college baseball. The tournament champion earns the conference's automatic bid to the 2017 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament[2] After a search for potential new sites, the SEC named Hoover the host for the 2017 and future events, with a specific term to be negotiated.[3]

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 nineteenth consecutive year and twenty-first overall that the event has been held at Hoover Metropolitan Stadium, known from 2007 through 2012 as Regions Park. Texas A&M joined in 2013, and won its first title in 2016. Missouri, which also joined in 2013, has yet to win the event.

Format and seeding

The regular season division winners will claim the top two seeds and the next ten teams by conference winning percentage, regardless of division, will claim the remaining berths in the tournament. The bottom eight teams will play a single-elimination opening round, followed by a double-elimination format until the semifinals, when the format will revert to single elimination through the championship game. This will be the fourth year of this format.[4][5]

Bracket

  First Round Second Round Third Round Semifinals Final
                                               
  3    
       
6  
11    
     
     
  2  
       
7  
10    
     
     
 
   
   
   
 
 
  1    
       
8  
9    
     
     
  4  
       
5  
12    
   
     
 
   
   
   

References

  1. "Baseball Standings". d1baseball.com. Retrieved October 29, 2016.
  2. "SEC Championships - Full Schedule". Southeastern Conference. Retrieved November 9, 2016.
  3. James Crepea (June 3, 2016). "SEC Baseball Tournament to remain in Hoover". AL.com. Retrieved November 9, 2016.
  4. "SEC Announces Format Change to Baseball Tournament". Tennessee Volunteers. December 19, 2011. Retrieved November 17, 2015.
  5. "SEC adds two teams, changes format for postseason conference tournament". NCAA.com. December 22, 2012. Retrieved November 17, 2015.
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