2023 Southeastern Conference baseball tournament

2023 Southeastern Conference
baseball tournament

Teams	12
Format	See below
Finals site	Hoover Metropolitan Stadium Hoover, AL
Champions	Vanderbilt (4th title)
Winning coach	Tim Corbin (3rd title)
MVP	RJ Austin (Vanderbilt)
Attendance	171,288 (record)
Television	SEC Network, ESPN2 (Championship game)

2023 Southeastern Conference baseball standings

v t e	Conf									Overall
Team	W		L		T		PCT			W		L		T		PCT
Eastern
No. 2 Florida ^x‍†‍‍^y	20	–	10	–	0		.667			54	–	17	–	0		.761
No. 19 Vanderbilt ‍‍‡‍^y	19	–	11	–	0		.633			42	–	20	–	0		.677
No. 13 South Carolina ‍‍‍^y	16	–	13	–	0		.552			42	–	21	–	0		.667
No. 7 Tennessee ‍‍‍^y	16	–	14	–	0		.533			44	–	22	–	0		.667
No. 17 Kentucky ‍‍‍^y	16	–	14	–	0		.533			40	–	21	–	0		.656
Georgia  ‍‍‍	11	–	19	–	0		.367			29	–	27	–	0		.518
Missouri  ‍‍‍	10	–	20	–	0		.333			30	–	24	–	0		.556
Western
No. 16 Arkansas ^x‍†‍‍^y	20	–	10	–	0		.667			43	–	18	–	0		.705
No. 1 LSU ‍‍‍^y	19	–	10	–	0		.655			54	–	17	–	0		.761
Auburn ‍‍‍^y	17	–	13	–	0		.567			34	–	23	–	1		.595
No. 10 Alabama ‍‍‍^y	16	–	14	–	0		.533			43	–	21	–	0		.672
Texas A&M ‍‍‍^y	14	–	16	–	0		.467			38	–	27	–	0		.585
Mississippi State  ‍‍‍	9	–	21	–	0		.300			27	–	26	–	0		.509
Ole Miss  ‍‍‍	6	–	24	–	0		.200			25	–	29	–	0		.463
x – Division champion † – Conference champion ‡ – Tournament champion y – Invited to the NCAA tournament As of June 26, 2023[1] Rankings from D1Baseball

The 2023 Southeastern Conference baseball tournament was held from May 23 through 28 at Hoover Metropolitan Stadium in Hoover, Alabama. The annual tournament determined the tournament champion of the Division I Southeastern Conference in college baseball. The tournament champion earns the conference's automatic bid to the 2023 NCAA Division I baseball tournament^[2]

Original members Georgia and Kentucky along with 2013 addition Missouri have never won the tournament. This is the twenty-fourth consecutive year and twenty-sixth overall that the event has 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 tenth year of this format.^[3][4]

Team	W–L	Pct	GB No. 1	Seed
Eastern Division
Florida	20–10	.667	–	1
Vanderbilt	19–11	.633	1	4
South Carolina	16–13	.552	3.5	6
Tennessee	16–14	.533	4	7
Kentucky	16–14	.533	4	8
Georgia	11–19	.367	9	11
Missouri	10–20	.333	10	12

Team	W–L	Pct	GB No. 1	Seed
Western Division
Arkansas	20–10	.667	–	2
LSU	19–10	.655	0.5	3
Auburn	17–13	.567	3	5
Alabama	16–14	.533	4	9
Texas A&M	14–16	.467	6	10
Mississippi State	9–21	.300	11
Ole Miss	6–24	.200	14

Bracket

	First round					Second round					Third round					Semifinals					Final
						May 24
	May 23					3	LSU	10
											May 25
	6	South Carolina	9			6	South Carolina	3
											3	LSU	4
	11	Georgia	0			May 24
											2	Arkansas	5
	May 23					2	Arkansas	6
																May 27
	7	Tennessee	0			10	Texas A&M	5^11
																2	Arkansas	4
	10	Texas A&M	3
																10	Texas A&M	5
											May 26
						May 25					3	LSU	4
						6	South Carolina	0			10	Texas A&M	5
						10	Texas A&M	5													May 28
																					10	Texas A&M	4
						May 24
																					4	Vanderbilt	10
	May 23					1	Florida	7
											May 25
	8	Kentucky	0			9	Alabama	6^11
											1	Florida	6
	9	Alabama	4			May 24
											4	Vanderbilt	3
	May 23					4	Vanderbilt	6
																May 27
	5	Auburn	10			5	Auburn	4
																1	Florida	6
	12	Missouri	4
																4	Vanderbilt	11
											May 26
						May 25					4	Vanderbilt	9
						9	Alabama	7			9	Alabama	2
						5	Auburn	4

Schedule

Game	Time*	Matchup^#	Score	Television	Attendance
Tuesday, May 23
1	9:30 a.m.	No. 6 South Carolina vs. No. 11 Georgia	9–0	SEC Network	5,510
2	1:00 p.m.	No. 7 Tennessee vs. No. 10 Texas A&M	0–3
3	4:30 p.m.	No. 8 Kentucky vs. No. 9 Alabama	0–4		10,315
4	8:00 p.m.	No. 5 Auburn vs. No. 12 Missouri	10–4
Wednesday, May 24
5	9:30 a.m.	No. 3 LSU vs. No. 6 South Carolina	10–3	SEC Network	7,825
6	1:00 p.m.	No. 2 Arkansas vs. No. 10 Texas A&M	6–5^11
7	4:30 p.m.	No. 1 Florida vs. No. 9 Alabama	7–6^11		12,685
8	8:00 p.m.	No. 4 Vanderbilt vs. No. 5 Auburn	6–4
Thursday, May 25
9	9:30 a.m.	No. 6 South Carolina vs. No. 10 Texas A&M	0–5	SEC Network	8,120
10	1:00 p.m.	No. 9 Alabama vs. No. 5 Auburn	7–4
11	4:30 p.m.	No. 3 LSU vs. No. 2 Arkansas	4–5		12,875
12	8:00 p.m.	No. 1 Florida vs. No. 4 Vanderbilt	6–3
Friday, May 26
13	3:00 p.m.	No. 10 Texas A&M vs. No. 3 LSU	5–4	SEC Network	15,012
14	6:30 p.m.	No. 9 Alabama vs. No. 4 Vanderbilt	2–9
Semifinals – Saturday, May 27
15	Noon	No. 10 Texas A&M vs. No. 2 Arkansas	5–4	SEC Network	8,938
16	3:30 p.m.	No. 4 Vanderbilt vs. No. 1 Florida	11–6
Championship – Sunday, May 28
17	2:00 p.m.	No. 10 Texas A&M vs. No. 4 Vanderbilt	4–10	ESPN2	8,728
*Game times in CDT. # – Rankings denote tournament seed.

All-Tournament Team

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

Pos.	Player	School
P	Troy Wansing	Texas A&M
P	Justin Lamkin	Texas A&M
C	BT Riopelle	Florida
DH	Chris Maldonaldo	Vanderbilt
1B	Jack Moss	Texas A&M
2B	RJ Austin	Vanderbilt
3B	Bryson Ware	Auburn
SS	Cole Foster	Auburn
OF	Andrew Pinckney	Alabama
OF	Tommy Seidl	Alabama
OF	Wyatt Langford	Florida

Bold is MVP.

References

1. "2023 SEC Baseball Standings". secsports.com. Retrieved June 26, 2023.
2. "Championship – Baseball". Southeastern Conference. Retrieved December 3, 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.