2008 Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament

2008 Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament

Classification	Division I
Teams	8
Format	Double elimination with flipped brackets
Site	Regions Park Hoover, Alabama
Champions	LSU (7th title)
Winning coach	Paul Mainieri (1st title)
MVP	Blake Dean (LSU)
Attendance	124,139

2008 Southeastern Conference baseball standings
	Conf				Overall
Team	W		L	PCT	W		L	PCT
Eastern
Georgia ^x†	20	–	9	.690	45	–	25	.643
Florida	17	–	13	.567	34	–	24	.586
Kentucky	16	–	14	.533	44	–	19	.698
Vanderbilt	15	–	14	.517	41	–	22	.651
South Carolina	15	–	15	.500	40	–	23	.635
Tennessee	12	–	18	.400	27	–	29	.482
Western
LSU ^x‡	18	–	11	.621	49	–	19	.721
Alabama	16	–	14	.533	35	–	28	.556
Ole Miss	15	–	15	.500	39	–	26	.600
Arkansas	14	–	15	.483	34	–	24	.586
Auburn	11	–	19	.367	28	–	28	.500
Mississippi State	9	–	21	.300	23	–	33	.411

x – Division champion † – Conference champion ‡ – Tournament champion As of June 30, 2008^[1]; Rankings from Coaches' Poll

The 2008 Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament was held at Regions Park in Hoover, AL from May 21st through May 25th. LSU won the tournament and earned the Southeastern Conference's automatic bid to the 2008 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.

Regular Season Results

The top eight teams (based on conference results) from the conference earned invites to the tournament.

Eastern Division
Team	W	L	T	Pct	GB	Seed
Georgia	20	9	1	.683	--	1
Florida	17	13	0	.567	3.5	3
Kentucky	16	14	0	.533	4.5	4
Vanderbilt	15	14	0	.517	5.0	6
South Carolina	15	15	0	.500	5.5	7
Tennessee	12	18	0	.400	8.5	--

Western Division
Team	W	L	T	Pct	GB	Seed
LSU	18	11	1	.617	--	2
Alabama	16	14	0	.533	2.5	5
Ole Miss	15	15	0	.500	3.5	8
Arkansas	14	15	0	.483	4.0	--
Auburn	11	19	0	.367	7.5	--
Mississippi State	9	21	0	.300	9.5	--

Format

The 2008 tournament will feature a "flipped bracket" for the first time. This means that after two days of play the undefeated team from each bracket will move into the other bracket. This reduces the amount of rematches teams will have to play in order to win the tournament.^[2]

Tournament

First round			Second round			Semifinals				Finals

7	South Carolina	4*
2	LSU	5*
			2	LSU	8

			6	Vanderbilt	2
6	Vanderbilt	7

3	Florida	3
						8	Ole Miss	4	8

						6	Vanderbilt	7	7
7	South Carolina	11

3	Florida	3
			7	South Carolina	5

			6	Vanderbilt	7



										2	LSU	8

										8	Ole Miss	2
8	Ole Miss	4

1	Georgia	1
			8	Ole Miss	8

			4	Kentucky	7
5	Alabama	3

4	Kentucky	9
						2	LSU	12	-

						5	Alabama	8	-
1	Georgia	2

5	Alabama	5
			5	Alabama	13

			4	Kentucky	4

* Game went into extra innings.
Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi State, and Auburn did not make the tournament.

All-Tournament Team

Position	Player	School
1B	Matt Clark	LSU
1B	Andrew Giobbi	Vanderbilt
2B	Ryan Schimpf	LSU
3B	Chris McClendon	Kentucky
SS	Ryan Flaherty	Vanderbilt
C	Alex Avila	Alabama
OF	Michael Guerrero	Ole Miss
OF	Jordan Henry	Ole Miss
OF	Kent Matthes	Alabama
OF	Sawyer Carroll	Kentucky
DH	Blake Dean	LSU
P	Lance Lynn	Ole Miss
P	Blake Martin	LSU
P	Austin Hyatt	Alabama
MVP	Blake Dean	LSU

External links

2008 SEC Baseball Tournament @ SECSports.com

References

↑ "College Baseball Conference Standings -- 2008". boydsworld.com. Retrieved November 30, 2012.
↑ SEC BASEBALL: Tourney big for all eight teams

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