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 through 18. Alabama defeated LSU in the championship game, earning the conference's automatic bid to the 1997 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.
Format 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.
Regular season results + Eastern Division Team W L Pct GB Seed 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 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 -- †- Vanderbilt forfeited its conference games and tournament berth for using an ineligible player.
Tournament
Play-in games
Main bracket
All-tournament team Position Player School 1B Robbie Tucker Alabama 2B Blair Barbier LSU 3B Andy Phillips Alabama SS Brandon Larson LSU C Matt Frick Alabama OF David Tidwell Alabama OF Dustan Mohr Alabama OF Danny Higgins LSU DH Brad Wilkerson Florida P Jared Kingrey Alabama P Kevin Knorst Alabama MVP David Tidwell Alabama
See also College World Series NCAA Division I Baseball Championship Southeastern Conference baseball tournament
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