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
Main bracket
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