1996 Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament Teams 8 Format Play-in round followed by six-team double elimination Finals site Champions Alabama (3rd title)Winning coach Jim Wells (2nd title)MVP (Alabama) Attendance 57,231[1]
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 .[1] [2]
Format [ ]
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.
Regular season results [ ]
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Tournament [ ]
Play-in games [ ]
Main bracket [ ]
1
Alabama
3
6
Kentucky
2
1
Alabama
3
4
Tennessee
1
2
Florida
6
1
Alabama
3
5
Mississippi State
5
2
Florida
7
2
Florida
6
2
Florida
5
5
3
LSU
2
1
Alabama
10
15
3
LSU
3
1
Alabama
16
4
Tennessee
1
3
LSU
11
6
Kentucky
8
6
Kentucky
4
6
Kentucky
12
5
Mississippi State
1
[1]
All-tournament team [ ]
Position
Player
School
1B
Alabama
2B
Alabama
3B
Kentucky
SS
Brad Freeman
Mississippi State
C
Florida
OF
Chad Green
Kentucky
OF
Alabama
OF
Dustan Mohr
Alabama
DH
Chris Moller
Alabama
P
R. A. Dickey
Tennessee
P
Eddie Yarnall
LSU
MVP
Alabama
[1]
See also [ ]
References [ ]