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Collegiate baseball tournament
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

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

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 --

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

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

See also

References

  1. ^ "SEC Tournament History". SECDigitalNetwork.com. The Southeastern Conference. pp. 25–31. Retrieved May 29, 2012.
  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. 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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