1996 Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament

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]

1996 Southeastern Conference
Baseball Tournament
Teams8
FormatPlay-in round followed by six-team double elimination
Finals site
ChampionsAlabama (3rd title)
Winning coachJim Wells (2nd title)
MVPJoe Caruso, Alabama
Attendance57,231[1]

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
Eastern Division
Team W L Pct GB Seed
Florida 20 10 .667 -- 2
Tennessee 18 12 .600 2 4
Kentucky 15 14 .517 4.5 6
Vanderbilt 14 16 .467 6 8
South Carolina 13 17 .433 7 --
Georgia 8 21 .276 12.5 --
Western Division
Team W L Pct GB Seed
Alabama 20 10 .667 -- 1
LSU 20 10 .667 -- 3
Mississippi State 17 13 .567 3 5
Arkansas 15 15 .500 5 7
Auburn 12 18 .400 8 --
Ole Miss 7 23 .304 13 --

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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  

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All-tournament team
Position Player School
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

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See also

References
  1. "SEC Tournament History". SECDigitalNetwork.com. The Southeastern Conference. pp. 25–31. Retrieved 29 May 2012.
  2. "Hoover Wants to Keep SEC Baseball Tourney". The Times Daily. 6 May 1999. p. 4C. The tournament was held at the Met in 1996, ...
  3. Nation, Boyd. "College Baseball Conference Standings -- 1996". BoydsWorld.com. Archived from the original on 29 May 2012. Retrieved 29 May 2012.
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