Birmingham, AL All 16 Southeastern Conference baseball teams will participate in the league's annual post-season tournament in a single-elimination format beginning with the 2025 baseball season, it was announced Thursday. The future tournament format was approved by the SEC athletics directors in preparation for the addition of Oklahoma and Texas to the Conference beginning with the 2024-25 athletic year. Under the existing format, the top 12 teams in the final 14-team regular season standings participate in a hybrid single/double elimination tournament over a six-day period. The existing format will be in effect for the 2024 SEC Baseball Tournament in Hoover, Alabama, May 21-26. |
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Tuscaloosa, AL BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (Feb. 8, 2024) --- Arkansas has been predicted to win the 2024 Southeastern Conference baseball championship as voted by the league's 14 head coaches in the annual preseason poll released Thursday. The Preseason All-SEC First and Second Teams were also announced. Three different schools received first place votes to win the SEC championship. Arkansas led the way with nine votes, while LSU received three and Florida received two. The Razorbacks were predicted to win the SEC Western Division, followed by LSU and Texas A&M. Florida was the pick to win the Eastern Division, followed by Tennessee and Vanderbilt. |
Thursday, November 9, 2023
SEC announces permanent baseball opponents format
Tuscaloosa, AL BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Nov. 9, 2023) -----The Southeastern Conference on Thursday announced the two permanent opponents for each school in the future SEC baseball scheduling format. The format will take effect beginning with the 2025 season, the first season in which the University of Oklahoma and the University of Texas will participate in SEC competition. As previously announced, beginning in 2025 SEC baseball teams will play a three-game series against two permanent opponents and eight rotating opponents for a total of 30 conference games. Standings will be kept in a single-division format, eliminating divisional standings. The permanent SEC baseball opponents were determined based on a number of factors including geography, traditional opponents and strength of schedule. The two permanent opponents for each school are listed below: SEC Baseball Permanent Opponents SCHOOL ----------- OPPONENTS Alabama -------- Auburn, Tennessee Arkansas ------- Ole Miss, Missouri Auburn --------- Alabama, Georgia Florida -------- Georgia, So. Carolina Georgia -------- Florida, Auburn Kentucky ------- So. Carolina, Vanderbilt LSU ------------ Miss. St., Texas A&M Ole Miss ------- Miss. St., Arkansas Miss. St. ------ Ole Miss, LSU Missouri ------- Oklahoma, Arkansas Oklahoma ------- Missouri, Texas So. Car. ------- Kentucky, Florida Tennessee ------ Vanderbilt, Alabama Texas ---------- Texas A&M, Oklahoma Texas A&M ------ Texas, LSU Vanderbilt ----- Tennessee, Kentucky |
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