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1996 Southeastern Conference baseball tournament

FieldValue
Year1996
ConferenceSoutheastern Conference
ShortConferenceSEC
DivisionI
Teams8
FormatPlay-in round followed by six-team double elimination
BallparkHoover Metropolitan Stadium
CityHoover, Alabama
ChampionsAlabama
TitleCount3rd
CoachJim Wells
CoachCount2nd
MVPJoe Caruso
MVPTeamAlabama
Attendance57,231

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 through 19. Alabama defeated Florida in the championship game, earning the conference's automatic bid to the 1996 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.

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

TeamWLPctGBSeed
Florida2010.667--2
Tennessee1812.60024
Kentucky1514.5174.56
Vanderbilt1416.46768
South Carolina1317.4337--
Georgia821.27612.5--

|

TeamWLPctGBSeed
Alabama2010.667--1
LSU2010.667--3
Mississippi State1713.56735
Arkansas1515.50057
Auburn1218.4008--
Ole Miss723.30413--

|}

Tournament

Play-in games

| RD1-seed1=6 | RD1-team1=Kentucky | RD1-score1=7 | RD1-seed2=7 | RD1-team2=Arkansas | RD1-score2=5 | RD1-seed1=5 | RD1-team1=Mississippi State | RD1-score1=8 | RD1-seed2=8 | RD1-team2=Vanderbilt | RD1-score2=5

Main bracket

| RD1-seed1=1 | RD1-team1=Alabama | RD1-score1=3 | RD1-seed2=6 | RD1-team2=Kentucky | RD1-score2=2

| RD1-seed3=2 | RD1-team3=Florida | RD1-score3=6 | RD1-seed4=5 | RD1-team4=Mississippi State | RD1-score4=5

| RD1-seed5=3 | RD1-team5=LSU | RD1-score5=3 | RD1-seed6=4 | RD1-team6=Tennessee | RD1-score6=1

| RD2-seed1=1 | RD2-team1=Alabama | RD2-score1=3 | RD2-seed2=4 | RD2-team2=Tennessee | RD2-score2=1

| RD2-seed3=2 | RD2-team3=Florida | RD2-score3=6 | RD2-seed4=3 | RD2-team4=LSU | RD2-score4=2

| RD2-seed5=6 | RD2-team5=Kentucky | RD2-score5=4 | RD2-seed6=5 | RD2-team6=Mississippi State | RD2-score6=1

| RD3-seed1=1 | RD3-team1=Alabama | RD3-score1=3 | RD3-seed2=2 | RD3-team2=Florida | RD3-score2=7

| RD3-seed3=3 | RD3-team3=LSU | RD3-score3=11 | RD3-seed4=6 | RD3-team4=Kentucky | RD3-score4=12

| RD4-seed1=1 | RD4-team1=Alabama | RD4-score1=16 | RD4-seed2=6 | RD4-team2=Kentucky | RD4-score2=8

| RD5-seed1=2 | RD5-team1=Florida | RD5-score1a=5 | RD5-score1b=5 | RD5-seed2=1 | RD5-team2=Alabama | RD5-score2a=10 | RD5-score2b=15

All-tournament team

PositionPlayerSchool
1BChuck HazzardAlabama
2BJoe CarusoAlabama
3BTravis HayesKentucky
SSBrad FreemanMississippi State
CEric CastaldoFlorida
OFChad GreenKentucky
OFDoug HallAlabama
OFDustan MohrAlabama
DHChris MollerAlabama
PR. A. DickeyTennessee
PEddie YarnallLSU
MVPJoe CarusoAlabama

References

References

  1. "SEC Tournament History". The Southeastern Conference.
  2. (6 May 1999). "Hoover Wants to Keep SEC Baseball Tourney". The Times Daily.
  3. Nation, Boyd. "College Baseball Conference Standings -- 1996". BoydsWorld.com.
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