2022 Southeastern Conference baseball tournament

2022 Southeastern Conference
baseball tournament

Teams	12
Format	See below
Finals site	Hoover Metropolitan Stadium Hoover, AL
Champions	Tennessee (4th title)
Winning coach	Tony Vitello (1st title)
MVP	Drew Gilbert[1] (Tennessee)
Television	SEC Network, ESPN2 (Championship game)

2022 Southeastern Conference baseball standings

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		PCT			W		L		PCT
Eastern
No. 9 Tennessee ^x‍†‍‡‍^y	25	–	5		.833			57	–	9		.864
No. 21 Florida ‍‍‍^y	15	–	15		.500			42	–	24		.636
Georgia ‍‍‍^y	15	–	15		.500			36	–	23		.610
Vanderbilt ‍‍‍^y	14	–	16		.467			39	–	23		.629
South Carolina ‍‍‍	13	–	17		.433			27	–	28		.491
Kentucky ‍‍‍	12	–	18		.400			33	–	26		.559
Missouri ‍‍‍	10	–	20		.333			28	–	23		.549
Western
No. 3 Texas A&M ^x‍‍‍^y	19	–	11		.633			44	–	20		.688
No. 4 Arkansas ‍‍‍^y	18	–	12		.600			46	–	21		.687
No. 25 LSU ‍‍‍^y	17	–	13		.567			40	–	22		.645
No. 7 Auburn ‍‍‍^y	16	–	13		.552			43	–	22		.662
No. 1 Ole Miss ‍‍‍^y	14	–	16		.467			42	–	23		.646
Alabama ‍‍‍	12	–	17		.414			31	–	27		.534
Mississippi State ‍‍‍	9	–	21		.300			26	–	30		.464
x – Division champion † – Conference champion ‡ – Tournament champion y – Invited to the NCAA tournament Rankings from D1Baseball

The 2022 Southeastern Conference baseball tournament was held from May 24 through 29 at Hoover Metropolitan Stadium in Hoover, Alabama as the conclusion of the 2022 Southeastern Conference baseball season. The annual tournament determined the tournament champion of the Division I Southeastern Conference in college baseball. The Tennessee Volunteers earned the conference's automatic bid to the 2022 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.^[2]

The tournament has been held every year since 1977 (with the exception of 2020), with LSU claiming twelve championships, the most of any school. Original members Georgia and Kentucky along with 2013 addition Missouri have never won the tournament. This is the twenty-third consecutive year and twenty-fifth overall that the event has scheduled to be held at Hoover Metropolitan Stadium, known from 2007 through 2012 as Regions Park.

Format

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 ninth year of this format.^[3][4]

Standings

Pos	Div	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PCT	GB	Qualification
1	E	Tennessee (C)	30	25	5	.833	—	Qualification for the second round & NCAA tournament
2	W	Texas A&M	30	19	11	.633	6
3	W	Arkansas	30	18	12	.600	7
4	W	LSU	30	17	13	.567	8
5	W	Auburn	29	16	13	.552	8.5	Qualification for the first round & NCAA tournament
6	E	Georgia	30	15	15	.500	10
7	E	Florida	30	15	15	.500	10
8	E	Vanderbilt	30	14	16	.467	11
9	W	Ole Miss	30	14	16	.467	11
10	E	South Carolina	30	13	17	.433	12	Qualification for the first round
11	W	Alabama	29	12	17	.414	12.5
12	E	Kentucky	30	12	18	.400	13
13	E	Missouri	30	10	20	.333	15
14	W	Mississippi State	30	9	21	.300	16

Source: SEC^[5]
(C) Champion

Bracket

	First round					Second round					Third round					Semifinals					Final
						May 25
	May 24					3	Arkansas	3
											May 27
	6	Georgia	3			11	Alabama	4
											11	Alabama	8
	11	Alabama	5			May 26
											2	Texas A&M	12
	May 24					2	Texas A&M	10
																May 28
	7	Florida	2			7	Florida	0^7
																2	Texas A&M	0
	10	South Carolina	1^10
																7	Florida	9
											May 28
						May 27					11	Alabama	6
						3	Arkansas	5			7	Florida	11
						7	Florida	7													May 29
																					7	Florida	5
						May 26
																					1	Tennessee	8
	May 24					1	Tennessee	10
											May 27
	8	Vanderbilt	3			8	Vanderbilt	1
											1	Tennessee	5
	9	Ole Miss	1			May 26
											4	LSU	2
	May 25					4	LSU	11
																May 28
	5	Auburn	1			12	Kentucky	6
																1	Tennessee	12
	12	Kentucky	3
																12	Kentucky	2
											May 28
						May 27					4	LSU	2
						8	Vanderbilt	2			12	Kentucky	7
						12	Kentucky	10

Schedule

Game	Time*	Matchup^#	Score	Television	Attendance
Tuesday, May 24
1	9:30 a.m.	No. 6 Georgia vs. No. 11 Alabama	3–5	SEC Network	5,506[6][7]
2	6:45 p.m.	No. 7 Florida vs. No. 10 South Carolina	2–1^10
3	9:45 p.m.	No. 8 Vanderbilt vs. No. 9 Ole Miss	3–1
Wednesday, May 25
4	12:45 p.m.	No. 5 Auburn vs. No. 12 Kentucky	1–3	SEC Network	5,742[8]
5	4:30 p.m.	No. 3 Arkansas vs. No. 11 Alabama	3–4
Thursday, May 26
6	2:45 p.m.	No. 2 Texas A&M vs. No. 7 Florida	10–0^7	SEC Network	8,251[9]
7	6:15 p.m.	No. 1 Tennessee vs. No. 8 Vanderbilt	10–1		9,697[10]
8	9:45 p.m.	No. 4 LSU vs. No. 12 Kentucky	11–6
Friday, May 27
9	9:30 a.m.	No. 3 Arkansas vs. No. 7 Florida	5–7	SEC Network	5,743[11]
10	1:15 p.m.	No. 8 Vanderbilt vs. No. 12 Kentucky	2–10
11	5:30 p.m.	No. 2 Texas A&M vs No. 11 Alabama	12–8		12,215[12]
12	10:05 p.m.	No. 1 Tennessee vs. No. 4 LSU	5–2
Semifinals – Saturday, May 28
13	9:30 a.m.	No. 7 Florida vs. No. 11 Alabama	11–6	SEC Network	7,102[13]
14	1:10 p.m.	No. 12 Kentucky vs. No. 4 LSU	7–2
15	5:20 p.m.	No. 7 Florida vs. No. 2 Texas A&M	9–0		8,924[14]
16	8:55 p.m.	No. 12 Kentucky vs. No. 1 Tennessee	2–12
Championship – Sunday, May 29
17	2:00 p.m.	No. 7 Florida vs. No. 1 Tennessee	5–8	ESPN2	13,270[15]
*Game times in CDT. # – Rankings denote tournament seed.

Conference championship

SEC Championship
(1) Tennessee Volunteers	vs.	(7) Florida Gators

May 29, 2022, 2:04 p.m. (CDT) at Hoover Met in Hoover, Alabama

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
(1) Tennessee	0	0	0	0	4	3	0	0	1	8	11	1
(7) Florida	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	2	5	13	2
WP: Camden Sewell (7–1)   LP: Carsten Finnvold (1–1) Home runs: Tenn: Drew Gilbert (9) UF: BT Riopelle (15) Attendance: 13,270 [16]

References

1. Tennessee Athletics (May 29, 2022). "Vols take down Gators, are crowned SEC tourney champs". secsports.com. Southeastern Conference. Retrieved May 30, 2022.
2. "Championship – Baseball". Southeastern Conference. Retrieved January 28, 2022.
3. "SEC Announces Format Change to Baseball Tournament". Tennessee Volunteers. December 19, 2011. Archived from the original on November 18, 2015. Retrieved April 22, 2021.
4. "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.
5. "Standings" (PDF). Southeastern Conference. Retrieved December 8, 2022.
6. Game 2 boxscore
7. Game 3 boxscore
8. Game 4 boxscore
9. Game 6 boxscore
10. Game 7 boxscore
11. Game 10 boxscore
12. Game 12 boxscore
13. Game 14 boxscore
14. Game 16 boxscore
15. Game 17 boxscore
16. Championship Boxscore