Teams | 8 |
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Format | Play-in round followed by six-team double elimination |
Finals site | |
Champions | Alabama (4th title) |
Winning coach | Jim Wells (3rd title) |
MVP | David Tidwell (Alabama) |
Attendance | 42,000 [1] |
The 1997 Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament was the 1997 postseason baseball championship of the NCAA Division I Southeastern Conference, held at Golden Park in Columbus, Georgia from May 14-18. Alabama defeated LSU in the championship game, earning the conference's automatic bid to the 1997 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament. [1] [2]
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.
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†- Vanderbilt forfeited its conference games and tournament berth for using an ineligible player. [4]
Play-In Game | ||||
6 | Auburn | 7 | ||
7 | Arkansas | 3 |
Play-In Game | ||||
5 | Mississippi State | 12 | ||
8 | South Carolina | 9 |
1 | LSU | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
6 | Auburn | 2 | 1 | LSU | 12 | |||||||||||||||||||
4 | Tennessee | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
2 | Alabama | 16 | 1 | LSU | 12 | |||||||||||||||||||
5 | Mississippi State | 3 | 2 | Alabama | 7 | |||||||||||||||||||
2 | Alabama | 13 | 1 | LSU | 2 | -- | ||||||||||||||||||
3 | Florida | 6 | 2 | Alabama | 12 | -- | ||||||||||||||||||
3 | Florida | 7 | 2 | Alabama | 6 | |||||||||||||||||||
4 | Tennessee | 6 | 3 | Florida | 17 | 3 | Florida | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
6 | Auburn | 5 | 6 | Auburn | 5 | |||||||||||||||||||
5 | Mississippi State | 4 |
Position | Player | School |
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1B | Robbie Tucker | Alabama |
2B | Blair Barbier | LSU |
3B | Andy Phillips | Alabama |
SS | Brandon Larson | LSU |
C | Matt Frick | Alabama |
OF | David Tidwell | Alabama |
OF | Dustan Mohr | Alabama |
OF | Danny Higgins | LSU |
DH | Brad Wilkerson | Florida |
P | Jared Kingrey | Alabama |
P | Kevin Knorst | Alabama |
MVP | David Tidwell | Alabama |
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