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
 
Teams12
FormatSee below
Finals site
ChampionsLSU (11th title)
Winning coachPaul Mainieri (5th title)
MVPTyler Moore, LSU
Attendance120,386
TelevisionESPN2 (championship game)
2014 Southeastern Conference baseball standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW 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 x‍‍‍y 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]

TeamW–L–TPctGB #1Seed
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
–
TeamW–L–TPctGB #1Seed
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 17  
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 18  
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 612  
  4 South Carolina 0
    5 Mississippi State 127  
5 Mississippi State 5
12 Georgia 410  
  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.PlayerSchool
PJared PochéLSU
PAaron NolaLSU
PKarsten WhitsonFlorida
CKade ScivicqueLSU
CGavin CollinsMississippi State
1BTyler MooreLSU
2BConner HaleLSU
3BJosh TobiasFlorida
3BAustin AndersonOle Miss
SSAlex BregmanLSU
OFHarrison BaderFlorida
OFMark LairdLSU
OFC.T. BradfordMississippi State
DHSean McMullenLSU

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.
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