The 2018 Southeastern Conference baseball tournament was held from May 22 through 27 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 earned the conference's automatic bid to the 2018 NCAA Division I baseball tournament
The tournament has been held every year since 1977, with LSU claiming twelve championships, the most of any school. Original members Georgia and Kentucky along with 1992 addition Arkansas have never won the tournament. This is the twentieth consecutive year and twenty-second overall that the event has been held at Hoover Metropolitan Stadium, known from 2007 through 2012 as Regions Park. Texas A&M joined in 2013, and won its first title in 2016. Missouri, which also joined in 2013, has yet to win the event.
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 sixth year of this format.
Team W–L Pct GB #1 Seed Eastern Division Florida 20–10 – 1 18–12 3 South Carolina 17–13 5 16–14 6 Kentucky 13–17 10 Missouri 12–18 12 Tennessee 12–18 – Team W–L Pct GB #1 Seed Western Division 18–12 2 Arkansas 18–12 4 15–15 7 LSU 15–15 8 Mississippi State 15–15 9 13–17 11 Alabama 8–22 –
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Schedule Game Time* Matchup# Television Attendance Tuesday, May 22 1 9:30 a.m. No. 6 vs. No. 11 SEC Network 5,514 2 1:00 p.m. No. 7 vs. No. 10 Kentucky 3 4:30 p.m. No. 8 LSU vs. No. 9 Mississippi State 8,072 4 8:00 p.m. No. 5 South Carolina vs. No. 12 Missouri Wednesday, May 23 5 9:30 a.m. No. 3 vs. No. 11 Texas A&M SEC Network 7,126 6 1:00 p.m. No. 2 Ole Miss vs. No. 7 Auburn 7 4:30 p.m. No. 1 Florida vs. No. 8 LSU 6,710 8 8:00 p.m. No. 4 Arkansas vs. No. 5 South Carolina Thursday, May 24 9 9:30 a.m. No. 3 Georgia vs. No. 2 Ole Miss SEC Network 7,197 10 1:00 p.m. No. 8 LSU vs. No. 5 South Carolina 11 4:30 p.m. No. 11 Texas A&M vs. No. 7 Auburn 9,651 Friday, May 25 12 10:00 a.m. No. 1 Florida vs. No. 4 Arkansas SEC Network 1,384 13 3:00 p.m. No. 2 Ole Miss vs. No. 7 Auburn 8,945 14 6:30 p.m. No. 8 LSU vs. No. 1 Florida Semifinals – Saturday, May 26 15 Noon No. 2 Ole Miss vs. No. 11 Texas A&M SEC Network 10,381 16 3:00 p.m. No. 8 LSU vs. No. 4 Arkansas Championship – Sunday, May 27 17 2:00 p.m. No. 2 Ole Miss vs. No. 8 LSU ESPN 14,126 *Game times in CDT. # – Rankings denote tournament seed.
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