2012 Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament

2012 Southeastern Conference
Baseball Tournament

2012 SEC baseball tournament logo
Classification Division I
Season 2012
Teams 10
Format 2-Bracket Double Elimination
Site Regions Park
Hoover, Alabama
Champions Mississippi State (7th title)
Winning coach John Cohen (1st title)
MVP Adam Frazier ((Mississippi State))
Attendance 129,112
Southeastern Conference
Baseball Tournament
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The 2012 Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament was held at Regions Park in Hoover, Alabama from May 22–27, 2012.

Seeding

The top ten teams (based on conference results) from the conference earned invites to the tournament.

Team W L Pct GB Seed
Eastern Division
South Carolina 18 11 .621
–
2
Florida 18 12 .600
.5
3
Kentucky 18 12 .600
.5
4
Vanderbilt 16 14 .533
2.5
5
Georgia 14 15 .483
4
8
Tennessee 8 22 .267
10.5
–
Team W L Pct GB Seed
Western Division
LSU 19 11 .633
–
1
Arkansas 16 14 .533
3
6
Mississippi State 16 14 .533
3
7
Ole Miss 14 16 .467
5
9
Auburn 13 17 .433
6
10
Alabama 9 21 .300
10
–

Format

The 2012 tournament increased the number of teams from eight to ten. The event ran from Tuesday through Sunday. Regular season division champions received byes on Tuesday. Games played from Tuesday to Friday were double elimination. Saturday's games featured semifinal match-ups with no "if necessary" games, like in years past. Winners of the two semi-final games faced each other during Sunday's championship game.

Tournament

  First round Second round Third round Semifinals Finals
                                               
4  Kentucky 2  
9  Ole Miss 0  
  1  LSU 2  
  7  Mississippi State 3  
6  Arkansas 1   7  Mississippi State 1  
7  Mississippi State 9     4  Kentucky 5  
  4  Kentucky 1  
  7  Mississippi State 2  
9  Ole Miss 2  
6  Arkansas 0  
  9  Ole Miss 2  
  1  LSU 11  
  1  LSU 3*
  7  Mississippi State 4*  
7  Mississippi State 3
5  Vanderbilt 0
3  Florida 6  
10  Auburn 1  
  2  South Carolina 2  
  5  Vanderbilt 3  
5  Vanderbilt 4   5  Vanderbilt 2  
8  Georgia 1     3  Florida 1  
  5  Vanderbilt 8
  3  Florida 6  
10  Auburn 3  
8  Georgia 2  
  10  Auburn 3  
  2  South Carolina 5  
  2  South Carolina 2
  3  Florida 7  

All-Tournament Team

Position Player School
1B Matt Snyder Ole Miss
2B Casey Turgeon Florida
3B Thomas McCarthy Kentucky
SS Adam Frazier Mississippi State
C Spencer Navin Vanderbilt
OF Connor Harrell Vanderbilt
OF Mike Yastrzemski Vanderbilt
OF Mason Katz LSU
OF Justin Shafer Florida
OF Demarcus Henderson Mississippi State
DH Brian Johnson Florida
P Brian Johnson Florida
P Jonathan Holder Mississippi State
MVP Adam Frazier Mississippi State

See also

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