Southeastern Conference Softball Tournament
SEC Softball Tournament | |
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Conference Softball Championship | |
SEC Softball Championship Tournament logo | |
Sport | Softball |
Conference | Southeastern Conference |
Number of teams | 13 |
Format |
Single-elimination tournament (2006-present) Double-elimination tournament (1997-2006) |
Current stadium | Nusez Park |
Current location | Starkville, Mississippi |
Played | 1997-present |
Last contest | 2016 - Nusez Park, Starkville, Mississippi |
Current champion | Auburn Tigers |
Most championships |
LSU Tigers (5) Alabama Crimson Tide (5) |
Official website | SECSports.com Softball |
The SEC Softball Tournament (sometimes known simply as the SEC Tournament) is the conference championship tournament in college softball for the Southeastern Conference (SEC). It is a single-elimination (since 2006) tournament and seeding is based on regular season records. The winner receives the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Division I Softball Tournament.
Tournament
The SEC Softball tournament is a single-elimination tournament held each year at various SEC-conference campus stadiums. Twelve of the 13 teams in the SEC make the tournament each year (Vanderbilt does not sponsor a softball team).
History
The tournament has been held since 1997, when the SEC began sponsoring softball. In 1997 it was an eight-team, double-elimination tournament with byes for the top two seeds. From 1998 until 2005 it was an eight-team, double-elimination tournament with no byes. In 2006 it became an eight-team, single-elimination tournament. In 2013, with the addition of Missouri and Texas A&M into the SEC, the tournament moved to a ten-team, single-elimination tournament with the top 6 teams earning first round byes.
Champions
Year-by-year
By school
School | Championships | Years |
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Alabama | 5 | 1998, 2003, 2005, 2010, 2012 |
LSU | 5 | 1999, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2007 |
Florida | 3 | 2008, 2009, 2013 |
Auburn | 2 | 2015, 2016 |
Tennessee | 2 | 2006, 2011 |
South Carolina | 2 | 1997, 2000 |
Georgia | 1 | 2014 |
Mississippi State | 0 | |
Ole Miss | 0 | |
Kentucky | 0 | |
Arkansas | 0 | |
Texas A&M | 0 | |
Missouri | 0 |