Classification Division I Champions Alabama (3rd title) | Teams 8 Winning coach Jim Wells (2nd title) | |
Format Play-in round followed by six-team double elimination Site Hoover Metropolitan Stadium
Hoover, Alabama | ||
The 1996 Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament was the 1996 postseason baseball championship of the NCAA Division I Southeastern Conference, held at Hoover Metropolitan Stadium in Hoover, Alabama from May 15-19. Alabama defeated Florida in the championship game, earning the conference's automatic bid to the 1996 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.
Format
Eight teams qualified for the league tournament. The teams seeded fifth through eighth played a single-elimination play-in round. The two winners of the play-in games advanced to the main bracket, which was a six-team, double-elimination format, the same as the NCAA regional format used through 1998.
References
1996 Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA