1996_Southeastern_Conference_Baseball_Tournament

1996 Southeastern Conference baseball tournament

1996 Southeastern Conference baseball tournament

Collegiate 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 through 19. Alabama defeated Florida in the championship game, earning the conference's automatic bid to the 1996 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.[1][2]

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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

Round 1Round 2QuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinal
1Alabama3
6Kentucky21Alabama3
4Tennessee1
2Florida61Alabama3
5Mississippi State52Florida7
2Florida62Florida55
3LSU21Alabama1015
3LSU31Alabama16
4Tennessee13LSU116Kentucky8
6Kentucky46Kentucky12
5Mississippi State1

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All-tournament team

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See also

References

  1. [1]
    "SEC Tournament History". SECDigitalNetwork.com. The Southeastern Conference. pp. 25–31. Retrieved May 29, 2012.
  2. [2]
    "Hoover Wants to Keep SEC Baseball Tourney". The Times Daily. May 6, 1999. p. 4C. The tournament was held at the Met in 1996, ...
  3. [3]
    Nation, Boyd. "College Baseball Conference Standings -- 1996". BoydsWorld.com. Archived from the original on February 14, 2013. Retrieved May 29, 2012.
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