1996 Southeastern Conference baseball tournament

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1996 Southeastern Conference
baseball tournament
Teams8
FormatPlay-in round followed by six-team double elimination
Finals site
Champions Alabama  (3rd title)
Winning coach Jim Wells  (2nd title)
MVP Joe Caruso (Alabama)
Attendance57,231 [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 through 19. Alabama defeated Florida in the championship game, earning the conference's automatic bid to the 1996 NCAA Division I baseball tournament. [1] [2]

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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

Eastern Division
TeamWLPctGBSeed
Florida 2010.667--2
Tennessee 1812.60024
Kentucky 1514.5174.56
Vanderbilt 1416.46768
South Carolina 1317.4337--
Georgia 821.27612.5--
Western Division
TeamWLPctGBSeed
Alabama 2010.667--1
LSU 2010.667--3
Mississippi State 1713.56735
Arkansas 1515.50057
Auburn 1218.4008--
Ole Miss 723.30413--

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Tournament

Play-in games

Play-in game
   
6 Kentucky 7
7 Arkansas 5
Play-in game
   
5 Mississippi State 8
8 Vanderbilt 5

Main bracket

Round 1Round 2QuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinal
1 Alabama 3
6Kentucky21Alabama3
4Tennessee1
2 Florida 61Alabama3
5Mississippi State52Florida7
2Florida62Florida55
3LSU21Alabama1015
3 LSU 31Alabama16
4 Tennessee 13LSU116Kentucky8
6Kentucky46Kentucky12
5Mississippi State1

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All-tournament team

PositionPlayerSchool
1B Chuck Hazzard Alabama
2B Joe Caruso Alabama
3B Travis Hayes Kentucky
SS Brad Freeman Mississippi State
C Eric Castaldo Florida
OF Chad Green Kentucky
OF Doug Hall Alabama
OF Dustan Mohr Alabama
DH Chris Moller Alabama
P R. A. Dickey Tennessee
P Eddie Yarnall LSU
MVP Joe Caruso Alabama

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