The 1997 Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament was the 1997 postseason baseball championship of the NCAA Division I Southeastern Conference, held at Golden Park in Columbus, Georgia from May 14-18. Alabama defeated LSU in the championship game, earning the conference's automatic bid to the 1997 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.[1][2]
1997 Southeastern Conference
Baseball Tournament 8 |
Play-in round followed by six-team double elimination |
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Alabama (4th title) |
Jim Wells (3rd title) |
David Tidwell (Alabama) |
42,000[1] |
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Eight teams qualified for the league tournament. The teams seeded fifth through eighth played a single-elimination play-in round. The two winners of the play-in games advanced to the main bracket, which was a six-team, double-elimination format, the same as the NCAA regional format used through 1998.
Eastern Division Team | W | L | Pct | GB | Seed |
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Florida | 17 | 13 | .567 | -- | 3 | Tennessee | 17 | 13 | .567 | -- | 4 | Vanderbilt | 14 | 16 | .467 | 3 | --† | South Carolina | 13 | 17 | .433 | 4 | 8 | Kentucky | 10 | 20 | .333 | 7 | -- | Georgia | 8 | 22 | .267 | 9 | -- | | Western Division Team | W | L | Pct | GB | Seed |
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LSU | 22 | 7 | .759 | -- | 1 | Alabama | 20 | 9 | .690 | 2 | 2 | Mississippi State | 19 | 11 | .633 | 3.5 | 5 | Auburn | 17 | 12 | .586 | 5 | 6 | Arkansas | 15 | 14 | .517 | 7 | 7 | Ole Miss | 6 | 24 | .200 | 16.5 | -- | |
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†- Vanderbilt forfeited its conference games and tournament berth for using an ineligible player.[4]