2018 Southeastern Conference baseball tournament

2018 Southeastern Conference
baseball tournament

File:2018 Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament Logo.jpeg
Teams	12
Format	See below
Finals site	Hoover Metropolitan Stadium Hoover, AL
Television	SEC Network, ESPN2 (championship game)

2018 Southeastern Conference baseball standings

	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		PCT			W		L		PCT
East Division
No. 3 Florida  x‍†‍‍y	20	–	10		.667			49	–	21		.700
No. 20 Georgia  ‍‍‍y	18	–	12		.600			39	–	21		.650
No. 12 South Carolina ‍‍‍y	17	–	13		.567			37	–	26		.587
No. 16 Vanderbilt  ‍‍‍y	16	–	14		.533			35	–	27		.565
Kentucky  ‍‍‍	13	–	17		.433			34	–	22		.607
Missouri  ‍‍‍	12	–	18		.400			34	–	22		.607
Tennessee  ‍‍‍	12	–	18		.400			29	–	27		.518
West Division
No. 19 Ole Miss  x‍‍‡‍y	18	–	12		.600			48	–	18		.727
No. 2 Arkansas  x‍‍‍y	18	–	12		.600			48	–	21		.696
No. 15 Auburn  ‍‍‍y	15	–	15		.500			43	–	23		.652
LSU  ‍‍‍y	15	–	15		.500			39	–	27		.591
No. 4 Mississippi State  ‍‍‍y	15	–	15		.500			39	–	29		.574
Texas A&M  ‍‍‍y	13	–	17		.433			40	–	22		.645
Alabama  ‍‍‍	8	–	22		.267			27	–	29		.482
x – Division champion † – Conference champion ‡ – Tournament champion y – Invited to the NCAA tournament Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

The 2018 Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament will be held from May 22 through May 27 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 2018 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament

The tournament has been held every year since 1977, with LSU claiming twelve championships, the most of any school. Original members Georgia and Kentucky along with 1992 addition Arkansas have never won the tournament. This is the twentieth consecutive year and twenty-second overall that the event has been held at Hoover Metropolitan Stadium, known from 2007 through 2012 as Regions Park. Texas A&M joined in 2013, and won its first title in 2016. Missouri, which also joined in 2013, has yet to win the event.

Format and seeding

The regular season division winners claimed the top two seeds and the next ten teams by conference winning percentage, regardless of division, claimed 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 sixth year of this format.

Team W–L Pct GB #1 Seed Eastern Division Florida 20–10 .667 – 1 Georgia 18–12 .600 2 3 South Carolina 17–13 .567 3 5 Vanderbilt 16–14 .533 4 6 Kentucky 13–17 .433 7 10 Missouri 12–18 .400 8 12 Tennessee 12–18 .400 8 –

Team W–L Pct GB #1 Seed Western Division Ole Miss 18–12 .600 2 2 Arkansas 18–12 .600 2 4 Auburn 15–15 .500 5 7 LSU 15–15 .500 5 8 Mississippi State 15–15 .500 5 9 Texas A&M 13–17 .433 7 11 Alabama 8–22 .267 12 –

Schedule

Game	Time*	Matchup#	Television	Attendance
Tuesday, May 22
1	9:30 a.m.	No. 6 Vanderbilt vs. No. 11 Texas A&M	SEC Network	5,514
2	1:00 p.m.	No. 7 Auburn vs. No. 10 Kentucky
3	4:30 p.m.	No. 8 LSU vs. No. 9 Mississippi State		8,072
4	8:00 p.m.	No. 5 South Carolina vs. No. 12 Missouri
Wednesday, May 23
5	9:30 a.m.	No. 3 Georgia vs. No. 11 Texas A&M	SEC Network	7,126
6	1:00 p.m.	No. 2 Ole Miss vs. No. 7 Auburn
7	4:30 p.m.	No. 1 Florida vs. No. 8 LSU		6,710
8	8:00 p.m.	No. 4 Arkansas vs. No. 5 South Carolina
Thursday, May 24
9	9:30 a.m.	No. 3 Georgia vs. No. 2 Ole Miss	SEC Network
10	1:00 p.m.	No. 8 LSU vs. No. 5 South Carolina
11	4:30 p.m.	No. 11 Texas A&M vs. No. 7 Auburn
12	8:00 p.m.	No. 1 Florida vs. No. 4 Arkansas
Friday, May 25
13	3:00 p.m.	No. 2 Ole Miss vs. Game 11 loser	SEC Network
14	6:30 p.m.	No. 8 LSU vs. Game 12 loser
Semifinals – Saturday, May 26
15	Noon	Game 13 winner vs. Game 11 winner	SEC Network
16	3:00 p.m.	Game 14 winner vs. Game 12 winner
Championship – Sunday, May 27
17	2:00 p.m.	Game 15 winner vs. Game 16 winner	ESPN2
*Game times in CDT. # – Rankings denote tournament seed.