The 2023 Southeastern Conference baseball tournament was held from May 23 through 28 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 earns the conference's automatic bid to the 2023 NCAA Division I baseball tournament
Original members Georgia and Kentucky along with 2013 addition Missouri have never won the tournament. This is the twenty-fourth consecutive year and twenty-sixth overall that the event has scheduled to be held at Hoover Metropolitan Stadium, known from 2007 through 2012 as Regions Park.
Format and seeding The regular season division winners claim the top two seeds and the next ten teams by conference winning percentage, regardless of division, claim the remaining berths in the tournament. The bottom eight teams play a single-elimination opening round, followed by a double-elimination format until the semifinals, when the format reverts to single elimination through the championship game. This is the tenth year of this format.
Team W–L Pct GB No. 1 Seed Eastern Division Florida 20–10 – 1 Vanderbilt 19–11 4 South Carolina 16–13 6 Tennessee 16–14 7 Kentucky 16–14 8 Georgia 11–19 11 Missouri 10–20 12 Team W–L Pct GB No. 1 Seed Western Division Arkansas 20–10 – 2 LSU 19–10 3 Auburn 17–13 5 16–14 9 14–16 10 Mississippi State 9–21 6–24
Bracket
Schedule GameTime*Matchup#ScoreTelevision Attendance Tuesday, May 23 1 9:30 a.m. No. 6 South Carolina vs. No. 11 Georgia 9–0 SEC Network 5,510 2 1:00 p.m. No. 7 Tennessee vs. No. 10 0–3 3 4:30 p.m. No. 8 Kentucky vs. No. 9 0–4 10,315 4 No. 5 Auburn vs. No. 12 Missouri 10–4 Wednesday, May 24 5 9:30 a.m. No. 3 LSU vs. No. 6 South Carolina 10–3 SEC Network 7,825 6 1:00 p.m. No. 2 Arkansas vs. No. 10 6–511 7 4:30 p.m. No. 1 Florida vs. No. 9 7–611 12,685 8 8:00 p.m. No. 4 Vanderbilt vs. No. 5 Auburn 6–4 Thursday, May 25 9 9:30 a.m. No. 6 South Carolina vs. No. 10 0–5 SEC Network 8,120 10 1:00 p.m. No. 9 vs. No. 5 Auburn 7–4 11 4:30 p.m. No. 3 LSU vs. No. 2 Arkansas 4–5 12,875 12 8:00 p.m. No. 1 Florida vs. No. 4 Vanderbilt 6–3 Friday, May 26 13 3:00 p.m. No. 10 vs. No. 3 LSU 5–4 SEC Network 15,012 14 6:30 p.m. No. 9 vs. No. 4 Vanderbilt 2–9 Semifinals – Saturday, May 27 15 Noon No. 10 vs. No. 2 Arkansas 5–4 SEC Network 8,938 16 3:30 p.m. No. 4 Vanderbilt vs. No. 1 Florida 11–6 Championship – Sunday, May 28 17 2:00 p.m. No. 10 vs. No. 4 Vanderbilt 4–10 ESPN2 8,728 *Game times in CDT. # – Rankings denote tournament seed.
All-Tournament Team The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team. Pos. Player School P Troy Wansing Texas A&M P Justin Lamkin Texas A&M C BT Riopelle Florida DH Chris Maldonaldo Vanderbilt 1B Jack Moss Texas A&M 2B RJ Austin Vanderbilt 3B Bryson Ware Auburn SS Cole Foster Auburn OF Andrew Pinckney Alabama OF Tommy Seidl Alabama OF Wyatt Langford Florida Bold is MVP.
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