1996 Southeastern Conference baseball tournament

August 2023 1996 Southeastern Conference SEC I 8 Play-in round followed by six-team double elimination Hoover Metropolitan Stadium Hoover, Alabama Alabama 3rd Jim Wells 2nd Joe Caruso Alabama 57,231 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.SEC Tournament History http://www.secdigitalnetwork.com/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=dEj50OytQR4=&tabid=472&mid=2563 SECDigitalNetwork.com The Southeastern Conference 29 May 2012 25–31Hoover Wants to Keep SEC Baseball Tourney https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=YmweAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ackEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4742,850559&dq=1997+sec+baseball+tournament+columbus&hl=en The Times Daily 6 May 1999 4C The tournament was held at the Met in 1996, ... 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 --Nation Boyd College Baseball Conference Standings -- 1996 http://www.boydsworld.com/data/standings/standings1996.html BoydsWorld.com 29 May 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20130214055642/http://www.boydsworld.com/data/standings/standings1996.html 14 February 2013 live 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 2 Florida 6 5 Mississippi State 5 3 LSU 3 4 Tennessee 1 1 Alabama 3 4 Tennessee 1 2 Florida 6 3 LSU 2 6 Kentucky 4 5 Mississippi State 1 1 Alabama 3 2 Florida 7 3 LSU 11 6 Kentucky 12 1 Alabama 16 6 Kentucky 8 2 Florida 5 5 1 Alabama 10 15 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 College World Series NCAA Division I Baseball Championship Southeastern Conference baseball tournament References Tournament Category:Southeastern Conference baseball tournament Southeastern Conference baseball tournament Southeastern Conference baseball tournament Category:College baseball tournaments in Alabama Category:Baseball competitions in Hoover, Alabama