The 2017 Southeastern Conference baseball tournament was held from May 23 through 28 at Hoover Metropolitan Stadium in Hoover, Alabama. The annual tournament determined the tournament champion of the Division I Southeastern Conference in college baseball. The tournament champion earned the conference's automatic bid to the 2017 NCAA Division I baseball tournament After a search for potential new sites, the SEC named Hoover the host for the 2017 and future events, with a specific term to be negotiated.
The tournament has been held every year since 1977, with LSU claiming their twelfth championship against Arkansas, the most of any school. Original members Georgia and Kentucky along with 1993 addition Arkansas have never won the tournament. This is the nineteenth consecutive year and twenty-first overall that the event has been held at Hoover Metropolitan Stadium, known from 2007 through 2012 as Regions Park. Texas A&M joined in 2013, and won its first title in 2016. Missouri, which also joined in 2013, has yet to win the event.
Format and seeding The regular season division winners claimed the top two seeds and the next ten teams by conference winning percentage, regardless of division, claimed the remaining berths in the tournament. The bottom eight teams played a single-elimination opening round, followed by a double-elimination format until the semifinals, when the format reverted to single elimination through the championship game. This is the fifth year of this format.
Team W–L–T Pct GB #1 Seed Eastern Division Florida 21–9 – 1 Kentucky 19–11 3 Vanderbilt 15–13–1 5 6 Missouri 14–16 10 South Carolina 13–17 11 11–19 12 Tennessee 7–21 – Team W–L–T Pct GB #1 Seed Western Division LSU 21–9 – 2 Arkansas 18–11 4 Mississippi State 17–13 5 Texas A&M 16–14 7 16–14 8 14–16 9 Alabama 5–24–1 15.5 –
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Schedule Game Time* Matchup# Television Attendance Tuesday, May 23 1 9:30 a.m. No. 6 Vanderbilt vs. No. 11 South Carolina SEC Network 2 1:00 p.m. No. 7 Texas A&M vs. No. 10 Missouri 3 4:30 p.m. No. 8 vs. No. 9 2,930 Wednesday, May 24 4 9:30 a.m. No. 5 Mississippi State vs. No. 12 SEC Network 5,062 5 1:00 p.m. No. 3 Kentucky vs. No. 11 South Carolina 6 4:30 p.m. No. 2 LSU vs. No. 10 Missouri 6,890 7 8:00 p.m. No. 1 Florida vs. No. 8 Auburn Thursday, May 25 8 9:30 a.m. No. 4 Arkansas vs. No. 5 Mississippi State SEC Network 7,279 9 1:00 p.m. No. 11 South Carolina vs. No. 10 Missouri 10 4:30 p.m. No. 8 Auburn vs. No. 4 Arkansas 9,823 11 8:00 p.m. No. 3 Kentucky vs. No. 2 LSU Friday, May 26 12 11:00 a.m. No. 1 Florida vs. No. 5 Mississippi State SEC Network 6,988 13 3:00 p.m. No. 11 South Carolina vs. No. 3 Kentucky 8,552 14 6:30 p.m. No. 4 Arkansas vs. No. 5 Mississippi State Semifinals – Saturday, May 27 15 Noon No. 11 South Carolina vs. No. 2 LSU SEC Network 10,793 16 3:00 p.m. No. 4 Arkansas vs. No. 1 Florida Championship – Sunday, May 28 17 2:00 p.m. No. 2 LSU vs. No. 4 Arkansas ESPN2 13,128 *Game times in CDT. # – Rankings denote tournament seed.
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