2014 Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament

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 tournament 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.[1][2]

2014 Southeastern Conference
Baseball Tournament

Teams	12
Format	See below
Finals 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)

2014 Southeastern Conference baseball standings
	Conf									Overall
Team	W		L		T		PCT			W		L		T		PCT
Eastern
No. 24 Florida ^x‍†‍‍^y	21	–	9	–	0		.700			40	–	23	–	0		.635
No. 25 South Carolina ‍‍‍^y	18	–	12	–	0		.600			44	–	18	–	0		.710
No. 1 Vanderbilt ‍‍‍^y	17	–	13	–	0		.567			51	–	21	–	0		.708
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
No. 4 Ole Miss ^x‍‍‍^y	19	–	11	–	0		.633			48	–	21	–	0		.696
No. 21 LSU ‍‍‡‍^y	17	–	11	–	1		.603			46	–	16	–	1		.738
No. 28 Mississippi State ‍‍‍^y	18	–	12	–	0		.600			39	–	24	–	0		.619
No. 30 Arkansas ‍‍‍^y	16	–	14	–	0		.533			40	–	25	–	0		.615
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 Rankings from Collegiate Baseball

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.[3]

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.[4][5]

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	1^7
	6	Vanderbilt	3
	11	Tennessee	2
											3	LSU	7
										7	Arkansas	2
						2	Ole Miss	1
						7	Arkansas	2
	7	Arkansas	4
	10	Texas A&M	0
																3	LSU	11
																7	Arkansas	1^8
						6	Vanderbilt	2
						2	Ole Miss	7
											2	Ole Miss	7
											7	Arkansas	8
																					3	LSU	2
																					1	Florida	0
						1	Florida	2
						9	Kentucky	4
	8	Alabama	1
	9	Kentucky	7
											9	Kentucky	7
										5	Mississippi State	6^12
						4	South Carolina	0
						5	Mississippi State	12^7
	5	Mississippi State	5
	12	Georgia	4^10
																9	Kentucky	5
																1	Florida	6
						1	Florida	7
						4	South Carolina	2
											1	Florida	5
											5	Mississippi State	1

All-Tournament Team

The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team.[2]

Pos.	Player	School
P	Jared Poché	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. "Baseball Announces Schedule for 2014". Alabama Crimson Tide. October 3, 2013. Retrieved January 8, 2014.
2. "LSU Claims SEC Tourney Title". Southeastern Conference. July 1, 2014. Retrieved January 22, 2015.
3. Greg Johnson (March 13, 2014). "SEC to implement experimental instant replay rules for conference tournament". NCAA. Retrieved April 21, 2014.
4. "SEC Announces Format Change to Baseball Tournament". Tennessee Volunteers. December 19, 2011. Retrieved January 8, 2014.
5. "SEC adds two teams, changes format for postseason conference tournament". NCAA.com. December 22, 2012. Archived from the original on November 18, 2015. Retrieved January 8, 2014.