Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament

Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament
Conference Baseball Championship
SEC Baseball Tournament Logo
Sport	Baseball
Conference	Southeastern Conference
Number of teams	14
Format	Single-elimination (round 1, semifinals, final) Double-elimination (rounds 2-4)
Current stadium	Hoover Metropolitan Stadium
Current location	Hoover, Alabama
Played	1977–present
Last contest	2016
Current champion	Texas A&M (1)
Most championships	LSU Tigers (11)
TV partner(s)	SEC Network (all games prior to final) ESPN2 (final)
Official website	SECSports.com Baseball
Host stadiums
Hoover Metropolitan Stadium/Regions Park (1990, 1996, 1998-present) Golden Park (1997) Lindsey Nelson Stadium (1995 Eastern) Dudy Noble Field (1979, 1981, 1983, 1988, 1995 Western) Cliff Hagan Stadium (1994 Eastern) Swayze Field (1977, 1994 Western) Sarge Frye Field (1993 Eastern) Alex Box Stadium (1985-86, 1991, 1993 Western) Superdome (1992) Alfred A. McKethan Stadium (1989) Foley Field (1987) Perry Field (1978, 1980, 1982, 1984)
Host locations
Hoover, AL (1990, 1996, 1998-present) Columbus, GA (1997) Knoxville, TN (1995 Eastern) Starkville, MS (1979, 1981, 1983, 1988, 1995 Western) Lexington, KY (1994 Eastern) Oxford, MS (1977, 1994 Western) Columbia, SC (1993 Eastern) Baton Rouge, LA (1985-86, 1991, 1993 Western) New Orleans, LA (1992) Gainesville, FL (1978, 1980, 1982, 1984, 1989) Athens, GA (1987)

The Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament (sometimes known simply as the SEC Tournament) is the conference championship tournament in baseball for the Southeastern Conference (SEC). It is a double-elimination tournament and seeding is based on regular season records. The winner receives the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament. The SEC Tournament champion is separate from the conference champion. The conference championship is determined solely by regular season record.

The SEC Baseball tournament is a double-elimination tournament held each year at Regions Park in Hoover, Alabama. Twelve of the 14 SEC teams qualify for the tournament. The winner earns the SEC's guaranteed bid to the NCAA Tournament. Most of the other teams who qualify for the SEC tournament more often than not earn at-large bids to the NCAA field of 64 teams, due to the reputation of the SEC as one of the nation's elite baseball conferences. With the expansion of the NCAA baseball field from 48 to 64 teams in 1999, some teams which have not made the SEC tournament have still qualified for the NCAA tournament.

Teams were split into divisions from 1951 through 1985. Each team played the other four division opponents in home-and-home three-game series. Interdivisional games were common, but did not count in the conference standings.

From 1951-1976, the division winners played a best-of-3 series to determine the SEC champion and representative to the NCAA Tournament.

From 1977–1986, the tournament consisted of four (out of 10) teams competing in a double elimination bracket. The top two teams in each division qualified, and the winner was declared the overall champion.

From 1977-1985, the tournament site alternated between winners of the West (odd-numbered years) and East (even-numbered years) divisions. During these seasons, Florida hosted the tournament in every even-numbered year, and Mississippi State hosted in every odd-numbered year except 1985, when LSU supplanted the Bulldogs atop the West.

In 1986, the SEC eliminated division play, adopting a full round-robin schedule (27 games), and the team with the best regular season conference record (LSU) earned the right to host.