2016 Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament

2016 Southeastern Conference
Baseball Tournament

 
Classification Division I
Season 2016
Teams 12
Format See below
Site Hoover Metropolitan Stadium
Hoover, AL
Champions Texas A&M (1st title)
Winning coach Rob Childress (1st title)
MVP Nick Banks[1] (Texas A&M)
Attendance 150,064[2]
Television ESPN2 (championship game)
Southeastern Conference
Baseball Tournament
«2015  2017»
2016 Southeastern Conference baseball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T   PCT     W   L   T   PCT
Eastern
#12 South Carolina xy 20 9 0   .690     46 18 0   .719
#7 Florida y 19 10 0   .655     52 16 0   .765
#23 Vanderbilt y 18 12 0   .600     43 19 0   .694
Kentucky 15 15 0   .500     32 25 0   .561
Georgia 11 19 0   .367     27 30 0   .474
Tennessee 9 21 0   .300     29 28 0   .509
Missouri 9 21 0   .300     26 30 0   .464
Western
#10 Mississippi State xy 21 9 0   .700     44 18 1   .706
#9 Texas A&M y 20 10 0   .667     49 16 0   .754
#13 LSU y 19 11 0   .633     45 21 0   .682
Ole Miss y 18 12 0   .600     43 19 0   .694
Alabama 15 15 0   .500     32 26 0   .552
Auburn 8 22 0   .267     23 33 0   .411
Arkansas 7 23 0   .233     26 29 0   .473
x Division champion
Conference champion
Tournament champion
y Invited to the NCAA Tournament
Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

The 2016 Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament was held from May 24 through May 29 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 earns the conference's automatic bid to the 2016 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament[3]

The tournament has been held every year since 1977, with LSU claiming eleven championships, 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.

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 play a single-elimination opening round, followed by a double-elimination format until the semifinals, when the format reverts to single elimination through the championship game. This is the fourth year of this format.[4][5]

Team W–L Pct GB #1 Seed
Eastern Division
South Carolina
20–9
.690
0.5
2
Florida
19–10
.655
1.5
4
Vanderbilt
18–12
.600
3
6
Kentucky
15–15
.500
6
8
Georgia
11–19
.367
10
10
Missouri
9–21
.300
12
11
Tennessee
9–21
.300
12
12
Team W–L Pct GB #1 Seed
Western Division
Mississippi State
21–9
.700
1
Texas A&M
20–10
.667
1
3
LSU
19–11
.633
2
5
Ole Miss
18–12
.600
3
7
Alabama
15–15
.500
6
9
Auburn
8–22
.267
13
Arkansas
7–23
.233
14

Bracket

  First Round
SECN
Second Round
SECN
Third Round
SECN
Semifinals
SECN
Final
ESPN2
                                               
  3  Texas A&M 5  
    6  Vanderbilt 6  
6  Vanderbilt 7
11  Missouri 0  
  6  Vanderbilt 9  
  7  Ole Miss 12  
  2  South Carolina 4
    7  Ole Miss 10  
7  Ole Miss 5
10  Georgia 1  
  7  Ole Miss 8  
  3  Texas A&M 12  
3  Texas A&M 4
2  South Carolina 1  
  3  Texas A&M 13
6  Vanderbilt 37  
3  Texas A&M 12
4  Florida 5
  1  Mississippi State 4  
    9  Alabama 1  
8  Kentucky 2
9  Alabama 5  
  1  Mississippi State 2  
  5  LSU 6  
  4  Florida 3
    5  LSU 5  
5  LSU 5
12  Tennessee 4  
  5  LSU 0
  4  Florida 1  
9  Alabama 4
4  Florida 5  
  4  Florida 12
1  Mississippi State 27  

Schedule

Game Time* Matchup# Television Attendance
Tuesday, May 24
1 9:30 a.m. #6 Vanderbilt vs. #11 Missouri SEC Network 4,612[6]
2 TBD #7 Ole Miss vs. #10 Georgia
3 4:30 p.m. #8 Kentucky vs. #9 Alabama 7,287[7]
4 TBD #5 LSU vs. #12 Tennessee
Wednesday, May 25
5 9:30 a.m. #3 Texas A&M vs. #6 Vanderbilt SEC Network 5,637[8]
6 TBD #2 South Carolina vs. #7 Ole Miss
7 4:30 p.m. #1 Mississippi State vs. #9 Alabama 13,448[9]
8 TBD #4 Florida vs. #5 LSU
Thursday, May 26
9 9:30 a.m. #3 Texas A&M vs. #2 South Carolina SEC Network 5,232[10]
10 TBD #9 Alabama vs. #4 Florida
11 4:30 p.m. #6 Vanderbilt vs. #7 Ole Miss 11,390[11]
12 TBD #1 Mississippi State vs. #5 LSU
Friday, May 27
13 3 p.m. #3 Texas A&M vs. #6 Vanderbilt SEC Network 9,429[12]
14 TBD #4 Florida vs. #1 Mississippi State
Semifinals – Saturday, May 28
15 Noon #3 Texas A&M vs. #7 Ole Miss SEC Network 13,821[13]
16 TBD #4 Florida vs. #5 LSU
Championship – Sunday, May 29
17 2:00 p.m. #3 Texas A&M vs. #4 Florida ESPN2 8,352[14]
*Game times in CDT. # – Rankings denote tournament seed.

All-Tournament Team

The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team.

Pos. Player School
P Scott Moss Florida
P Brigham Hill Texas A&M
P Zac Houston Mississippi State
C Henri Lartigue Ole Miss
DH Jonathan Moroney Texas A&M
1B J. J. Schwarz Florida
2B Ryne Birk Texas A&M
3B Colby Bortles Ole Miss
SS Austin Homan Texas A&M
OF Nick Banks Texas A&M
OF J. B. Woodman Ole Miss
OF Bryan Reynolds Vanderbilt

Bold is MVP.

References

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