2024 Southeastern Conference baseball tournament

2024 Southeastern Conference
baseball tournament
Teams12
FormatSee below
Finals site
ChampionsTennessee (5th title)
Winning coachTony Vitello (2nd title)
MVPBlake Burke (Tennessee)
Attendance180,004 (record)[1]
TelevisionSEC Network, ESPN2
2024 Southeastern Conference baseball standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   PCT W   L   PCT
Eastern
No. 1 Tennessee x‍†‍‡‍y 22 – 8   .733 60 – 13   .822
No. 3 Kentucky x‍†‍‍y 22 – 8   .733 46 – 16   .742
No. 11 Georgia  ‍‍‍y 17 – 13   .567 43 – 17   .717
Vanderbilt  ‍‍‍y 13 – 17   .433 38 – 23   .623
No. 8 Florida ‍‍‍y 13 – 17   .433 36 – 30   .545
South Carolina  ‍‍‍y 13 – 17   .433 37 – 25   .597
Missouri  ‍‍‍ 9 – 21   .300 23 – 32   .418
Western
No. 17 Arkansas  x‍‍‍y 20 – 10   .667 44 – 16   .733
No. 2 Texas A&M  ‍‍‍y 19 – 11   .633 53 – 15   .779
No. 22 Mississippi State  ‍‍‍y 17 – 13   .567 40 – 23   .635
Alabama  ‍‍‍y 13 – 17   .433 33 – 24   .579
LSU  ‍‍‍y 13 – 17   .433 43 – 23   .652
Ole Miss  ‍‍‍ 11 – 19   .367 27 – 29   .482
Auburn  ‍‍‍ 8 – 22   .267 27 – 26   .509
x – Division champion
† – Conference champion
‡ – Tournament champion
y – Invited to the NCAA Tournament
As of June 24, 2024[2]
Rankings from D1Baseball

The 2024 Southeastern Conference baseball tournament was the postseason baseball tournament for the Southeastern Conference for the 2024 NCAA Division I baseball season, held from May 21–26 at Hoover Metropolitan Stadium in Hoover, Alabama.[3] Tennessee earned the conference's automatic bid to the 2024 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.

This is the twenty-fifth consecutive year and twenty-seventh overall that the event has been scheduled to be held at Hoover Metropolitan Stadium, known from 2007 through 2012 as Regions Park.

Format and seeding

The regular season division winners claim the top two seeds and the next ten teams by conference winning percentage, regardless of division, claim the remaining berths in the tournament. The bottom eight teams play a single-elimination opening round, followed by a double-elimination format until the semifinals, when the format reverts to single elimination through the championship game. This is the eleventh year of this format.[4][5]

Team W–L Pct GB No. 1 Seed
Eastern Division
Tennessee 22–8 .733 – 1
Kentucky 22–8 .733 – 3
Georgia 17–13 .567 5 6
Vanderbilt 13–17 .433 9 8
Florida 13–17 .433 9 9
South Carolina 13–17 .433 9 10
Missouri 9–21 .300 13
Team W–L Pct GB No. 1 Seed
Western Division
Arkansas 20–10 .667 2 2
Texas A&M 19–11 .633 3 4
Mississippi State 17–13 .567 5 5
Alabama 13–17 .433 9 7
LSU 13–17 .433 9 11
Ole Miss 11–19 .367 11 12
Auburn 8–22 .267 14

Bracket

First round
Tuesday, May 21 		Second round
Wednesday, May 22
Thursday, May 23 		Third round
Thursday, May 23
Friday, May 24 		Semifinals
Saturday, May 25 		Final
Sunday, May 26
3 Kentucky 0
6 Georgia 1 11 LSU 118
11 LSU 9 11 LSU 11
10 South Carolina 10
2 Arkansas 5
7 Alabama 5 10 South Carolina 6
10 South Carolina 10 11 LSU 12
10 South Carolina 1110
3 Kentucky 9
2 Arkansas 6
3 Kentucky 5
10 South Carolina 6
11 LSU 3
1 Tennessee 4
1 Tennessee 4
8 Vanderbilt 6 8 Vanderbilt 13
9 Florida 3 8 Vanderbilt 4
5 Mississippi State 3
4 Texas A&M 3
5 Mississippi State 2 5 Mississippi State 5
12 Ole Miss 1 8 Vanderbilt 4
1 Tennessee 6
1 Tennessee 7
4 Texas A&M 4
1 Tennessee 6
5 Mississippi State 5

Source:[6]

Schedule

Game Time* Matchup# Score Television Attendance
Tuesday, May 21
1 9:30 a.m. No. 6 Georgia vs. No. 11 LSU 1−9 SEC Network 7,425[7]
2 1:00 p.m. No. 7 Alabama vs. No. 10 South Carolina 5−10
3 4:30 p.m. No. 8 Vanderbilt vs. No. 9 Florida 6–3 9,240[8]
4 8:00 p.m. No. 5 Mississippi State vs. No. 12 Ole Miss 2–1
Wednesday, May 22
5 9:30 a.m. No. 3 Kentucky vs. No. 11 LSU 0–118 SEC Network 7,185[9]
6 1:00 p.m. No. 2 Arkansas vs. No. 10 South Carolina 5–6
7 4:30 p.m. No. 1 Tennessee vs. No. 8 Vanderbilt 4–13 11,840[10]
8 8:00 p.m. No. 4 Texas A&M vs. No. 5 Mississippi State 3–5
Thursday, May 23
9 9:30 a.m. No. 3 Kentucky vs. No. 2 Arkansas 9–6 SEC Network 6,825[11]
10 1:00 p.m. No. 1 Tennessee vs. No. 4 Texas A&M 7–4
11 4:30 p.m. No. 11 LSU vs. No. 10 South Carolina 11–10 11,923[12]
12 8:00 p.m. No. 8 Vanderbilt vs. No. 5 Mississippi State 4–3
Friday, May 24
13 3:00 p.m. No. 3 Kentucky vs. No. 10 South Carolina 5–6 SEC Network 13,335[13]
14 6:30 p.m. No. 1 Tennessee vs. No. 5 Mississippi State 6–5
Semifinals – Saturday, May 25
15 12:00 p.m No. 10 South Carolina vs. No. 11 LSU 11–1210 SEC Network 14,386[14]
16 3:30 p.m. No. 1 Tennessee vs. No. 8 Vanderbilt 6–4
Championship – Sunday, May 26
17 2:00 p.m. No. 11 LSU vs. No. 1 Tennessee 3–4 ESPN2 15,686[15]
*Game times in CDT. # – Rankings denote tournament seed.

References

  1. ^ @SEC (May 26, 2024). "With nearly 16K in attendance at today's Championship, that brings the week-long #SECTourney total to 180,004!" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  2. ^ "2024 SEC Baseball Standings". secsports.com. Retrieved June 24, 2024.
  3. ^ "Baseball Championship". Southeastern Conference. Retrieved May 11, 2024.
  4. ^ "SEC Announces Format Change to Baseball Tournament". Tennessee Volunteers. December 19, 2011. Archived from the original on November 18, 2015. Retrieved April 22, 2021.
  5. ^ "SEC adds two teams, changes format for postseason conference tournament". NCAA.com. December 22, 2012. Archived from the original on November 18, 2015. Retrieved November 17, 2015.
  6. ^ "2024 SEC Baseball Tournament Bracket". Southeastern Conference. Retrieved May 11, 2024.
  7. ^ Game 2 boxscore
  8. ^ Game 4 boxscore
  9. ^ Game 6 boxscore
  10. ^ Game 8 boxscore
  11. ^ Game 10 boxscore
  12. ^ Game 12 boxscore
  13. ^ Game 14 boxscore
  14. ^ Game 16 boxscore
  15. ^ Game 17 boxscore