The 2013 Southeastern Conference baseball tournament was held from May 21 through 26 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, LSU, earned the conference's automatic bid to the 2013 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.

The tournament has been held every year since 1977. Entering the 2013 event, LSU had claimed nine championships, the most of any school. Original members Georgia and Kentucky along with 1993 addition Arkansas have never won the tournament. This was the sixteenth consecutive year and eighteenth overall that the event has been held at Hoover Metropolitan Stadium, formerly known as Regions Park.

In 2013, the tournament set a new all-sessions attendance record of 134,496. The average per session was 8,115.

Seeding and format 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 two-bracket double-elimination format until the semifinals, when the format reverted to single elimination through the championship game.

Team W L Pct GB #1 Seed Eastern Division Vanderbilt 26 3 .897 - 1 South Carolina 17 12 .586 9 4 Florida 14 16 .467 12.5 8 Kentucky 11 19 .367 15.5 11 Missouri 10 20 .333 16.5 12 9 19 .321 16.5 - 7 20 .259 18 - Team W L Pct GB #1 Seed Western Division LSU 23 7 .767 3.5 2 Arkansas 18 11 .621 8 3 Mississippi State 16 14 .533 10.5 5 15 15 .500 11.5 6 Alabama 14 15 .483 12 7 13 16 .448 13 9 13 17 .433 13.5 10

Bracket

* - Indicates game required extra innings.

Notes The Mississippi State vs Missouri first-round game lasted 17 innings. This tied the record for the longest game in SEC Tournament history, which was originally set by Arkansas and Auburn in 1994.

All-Tournament Team The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team. Pos. Player School P Tyler Beede Vanderbilt P Daniel Mengden Texas A&M P Ryne Stanek Arkansas P Chris Cotton LSU C Stuart Turner Ole Miss 1B Conrad Gregor Vanderbilt 2B Tony Kemp Vanderbilt 3B Christian Ibarra LSU SS Adam Frazier Mississippi State OF Connor Harrell Vanderbilt OF Hunter Renfroe Mississippi State OF Tyler Spoon Arkansas OF Jared Foster LSU OF Matt Vinson Arkansas DH Sean McMullen LSU DH Zander Wiel Vanderbilt

Most Valuable Player Chris Cotton was named Tournament Most Valuable Player. Cotton was a pitcher for LSU, serving as closer. In the championship game, he pitched the final 2.2 innings and did not allow any of the eight batters he faced to reach base.

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