1996 Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament | |
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Classification | Division I |
Teams | 8 |
Format | Play-in round followed by six-team double elimination |
Site | |
Champions | Alabama (3rd title) |
Winning coach | Jim Wells (2nd title) |
MVP | Joe Caruso (Alabama) |
Attendance | 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 15-19. Alabama defeated Florida in the championship game, earning the conference's automatic bid to the 1996 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.
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.