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
Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament «2015  2017»

2016 Southeastern Conference baseball standings
	Conf									Overall
Team	W		L		T		PCT			W		L		T		PCT
Eastern
#2 South Carolina	16	–	5	–	0		.762			36	–	9	–	0		.800
#1 Florida	15	–	6	–	0		.714			39	–	7	–	0		.848
#6 Vanderbilt	14	–	9	–	0		.609			36	–	11	–	0		.766
#28 Kentucky	11	–	11	–	0		.500			27	–	19	–	0		.587
Georgia	7	–	15	–	0		.318			22	–	24	–	0		.478
Missouri	7	–	16	–	0		.304			24	–	24	–	0		.500
Tennessee	6	–	16	–	0		.273			24	–	22	–	0		.522
Western
#5 Texas A&M	15	–	8	–	0		.652			36	–	10	–	0		.783
#8 Mississippi State	14	–	9	–	0		.609			32	–	14	–	1		.691
#26 Ole Miss	13	–	9	–	0		.591			35	–	12	–	0		.745
#27 LSU	12	–	10	–	0		.545			29	–	16	–	0		.644
Alabama	11	–	11	–	0		.500			26	–	20	–	0		.565
Auburn	7	–	15	–	0		.318			20	–	25	–	0		.444
Arkansas	7	–	15	–	0		.318			26	–	20	–	0		.565
‡ – Tournament champion As of May 2, 2016[1]; Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

The 2016 Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament will be held from May 24 through May 29 at Hoover Metropolitan Stadium in Hoover, Alabama. The annual tournament determines 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^[2]

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 will claim the top two seeds and the next ten teams by conference winning percentage, regardless of division, will claim the remaining berths in the tournament. The bottom eight teams will play a single-elimination opening round, followed by a double-elimination format until the semifinals, when the format will revert to single elimination through the championship game. This will be the fourth year of this format.^[3][4]

Bracket

	First Round					Second Round					Third Round					Semifinals					Final
						3
	6
	11
						2
	7
	10
						1
	8
	9
						4
	5
	12

References

1. "Baseball Standings". Retrieved May 2, 2016.
2. "SEC Championships - Full Schedule". Southeastern Conference. Retrieved November 17, 2015.
3. "SEC Announces Format Change to Baseball Tournament". Tennessee Volunteers. December 19, 2011. Retrieved November 17, 2015.
4. "SEC adds two teams, changes format for postseason conference tournament". NCAA.com. December 22, 2012. Retrieved November 17, 2015.