2014 Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament

2014 Southeastern Conference
Baseball Tournament

 
Classification Division I
Season 2014
Teams 12
Format See below
Site Hoover Metropolitan Stadium
Hoover, AL
Champions LSU (11th title)
Winning coach Paul Mainieri (5th title)
MVP Tyler Moore (LSU)
Attendance 120,386
Television ESPN2 (championship game)
Southeastern Conference
Baseball Tournament
«2013  2015»
2014 Southeastern Conference baseball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T   PCT     W   L   T   PCT
Eastern
#14 Florida x†y 21 – 9 – 0   .700     40 – 23 – 0   .635
#9 South Carolina y 18 – 12 – 0   .600     44 – 18 – 0   .710
#10 Vanderbilt y 17 – 13 – 0   .567     47 – 19 – 0   .712
Kentucky y 14 – 16 – 0   .467     37 – 25 – 0   .597
Tennessee 12 – 18 – 0   .400     31 – 23 – 0   .574
Georgia 11 – 18 – 1   .383     26 – 29 – 1   .473
Missouri 6 – 24 – 0   .200     20 – 33 – 0   .377
Western
#16 Ole Miss xy 19 – 11 – 0   .633     47 – 19 – 0   .712
#8 LSU ‡y 17 – 11 – 1   .603     46 – 16 – 1   .738
#21 Mississippi State y 18 – 12 – 0   .600     39 – 24 – 0   .619
#27 Arkansas y 16 – 14 – 0   .533     40 – 25 – 0   .615
#25 Alabama y 15 – 14 – 0   .517     37 – 24 – 0   .607
Texas A&M y 14 – 16 – 0   .467     36 – 26 – 0   .581
Auburn 10 – 20 – 0   .333     28 – 28 – 0   .500
x – Division champion
† – Conference champion
‡ – Tournament champion
y – Invited to the NCAA Tournament
As of 02:43, 18 June 2014 (UTC)[1][2]; Rankings from NCBWA

The 2014 Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament was held from May 20 through May 25 at Hoover Metropolitan Stadium in Hoover, Alabama. The annual tournament determines the conference champion of the Division I Southeastern Conference in college baseball. LSU claimed their record 11th tournament championship and earned the conference's automatic bid to the 2014 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.[3][4]

The tournament has been held every year since 1977, with LSU claiming eleven championships, the most of any school. Original members Georgia and Kentucky along with 1992 addition Arkansas and 2012 additions Texas A&M and Missouri have never won the tournament. This is the seventeenth consecutive year and nineteenth overall that the event has been held at Hoover Metropolitan Stadium, known from 2007 through 2012 as Regions Park.

The SEC implemented experimental instant replay rules at the 2014 tournament. The rules allowed review of fair/foul, home run, and spectator interference calls.[5]

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 played a single-elimination opening round, followed by a double-elimination format until the semifinals, when the format reverted to single elimination through the championship game. This was the second year of this format.[6][7]

Team W–L–T Pct GB #1 Seed
Eastern Division
Florida
21–9
.700
–
1
South Carolina
18–12
.600
3
4
Vanderbilt
17–13
.567
4
6
Kentucky
14–16
.467
7
9
Tennessee
12–18
.400
9
11
Georgia
11–18–1
.379
9.5
12
Missouri
6–24
.200
15
–
Team W–L–T Pct GB #1 Seed
Western Division
Ole Miss
19–11
.633
2
2
LSU
17–11–1
.603
2.5
3
Mississippi State
18–12
.600
3
5
Arkansas
16–14
.533
5
7
Alabama
15–14
.517
5.5
8
Texas A&M
14–16
.467
7
10
Auburn
10–20
.333
11
–

Bracket

  First Round Second Round Third Round Semifinals Final
                                               
  3  LSU 11^  
    6  Vanderbilt 1  
6  Vanderbilt 3
11  Tennessee 2  
  3  LSU 7  
  7  Arkansas (H) 2  
  2  Ole Miss 1
    7  Arkansas 2  
7  Arkansas 4
10  Texas A&M 0  
  3  LSU 11^  
  7  Arkansas 1  
6  Vanderbilt (H) 2
2  Ole Miss 7  
  2  Ole Miss (H) 7
7  Arkansas 8  
3  LSU 2
1  Florida 0
  1  Florida 2  
    9  Kentucky 4  
8  Alabama 1
9  Kentucky 7  
  9  Kentucky (H) 7*  
  5  Mississippi State 6  
  4  South Carolina 0
    5  Mississippi State 12^  
5  Mississippi State 5*
12  Georgia 4  
  9  Kentucky 5
  1  Florida 6  
1  Florida (H) 7
4  South Carolina 2  
  1  Florida 5
5  Mississippi State (H) 1  

* – Mississippi State beat Georgia 5–4 in 10 innings, and Kentucky beat Mississippi State 7–6 in 12 innings.

^ – LSU beat Vanderbilt 11–1 in 7 innings, Mississippi State beat South Carolina 12–0 in 7 innings, and LSU beat Arkansas 11–1 in 8 innings (10-run rule).

All-Tournament Team

The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team.[4]

Pos. Player School
P Jared Poche LSU
P Aaron Nola LSU
P Karsten Whitson Florida
C Kade Scivicque LSU
C Gavin Collins Mississippi State
1B Tyler Moore LSU
2B Conner Hale LSU
3B Josh Tobias Florida
3B Austin Anderson Ole Miss
SS Alex Bregman LSU
OF Harrison Bader Florida
OF Mark Laird LSU
OF C.T. Bradford Mississippi State
DH Sean McMullen LSU

Bold is MVP.

References

  1. ↑ "2014 SEC Baseball" (PDF). Southeastern Conference. Retrieved May 25, 2014.
  2. ↑ "Southeastern Conference Standings". D1 Baseball. Retrieved June 3, 2014.
  3. ↑ "Baseball Announces Schedule for 2014". Alabama Crimson Tide. October 3, 2013. Retrieved January 8, 2014.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "LSU Claims SEC Tourney Title". Southeastern Conference. July 1, 2014. Retrieved January 22, 2015.
  5. ↑ Greg Johnson (March 13, 2014). "SEC to implement experimental instant replay rules for conference tournament". NCAA. Retrieved April 21, 2014.
  6. ↑ "SEC Announces Format Change to Baseball Tournament". Tennessee Volunteers. December 19, 2011. Retrieved January 8, 2014.
  7. ↑ "SEC adds two teams, changes format for postseason conference tournament". NCAA.com. December 22, 2012. Retrieved January 8, 2014.