The Southeastern SEC Conference Baseball Tournament is the conference tournament in baseball for the Southeastern Conference. It is a double-elimination tournament and seeding is based on regular season records. The winner receives the conference’s automatic bid to the NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.
Sec Baseball Tournament: Updates| Rain delay| Bracket
Updates:
The road to the College World Series is upon us, with the 2022 SEC baseball tournament beginning Tuesday.
There will certainly be plenty of teams from the country’s best conference represented when the field of 64 gets announced Monday, but this is the last chance for those programs on the bubble to secure a spot.
Tennessee won the SEC regular-season title for the first time since 1995. The program is seeking its first conference tournament championship in 27 years. The Vols secured a first-round bye, as did Texas A&M, Arkansas and LSU. They will play their first game in the tournament on Wednesday.
Rain Delay:
Two different rain delays didn’t stop Alabama from holding on for a 5-3 victory over Georgia in the first game of the SEC tournament.
The start of the game was delayed by 35 minutes because of rain. There was another delay of more than two hours after the top of the third inning.
Prior to the second weather delay, Alabama stormed out to a 5-0 lead. Andrew Pinckney drove in Caden Rose in the top of the first, and then later that inning, Zane Denton also drove in a run with a two-out RBI single to make it a 3-0 game.
Bracket:
Twelve SEC teams have made the last ten men’s CWS finals, including all-SEC matchups in 2011 (South Carolina over Florida), 2017 (Florida over LSU) and 2021 (Mississippi State over Vanderbilt).
The SEC tournament features 12 teams, which are seeded No. 1 through No. 12, and 17 total games.
The top four seeds, including the champions of the SEC East and SEC West, will receive first-round byes, and the teams seeded No. 3 through No. 12 will receive at-large bids to the tournament based upon their conference winning percentage.
Current location: Hoover, Alabama
