Classification Division I Champions Alabama (4th title) | Teams 8 Winning coach Jim Wells (3rd title) | |
Format Play-in round followed by six-team double elimination Site Golden Park
Columbus, Georgia | ||
The 1997 Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament was the 1997 postseason baseball championship of the NCAA Division I Southeastern Conference, held at Golden Park in Columbus, Georgia from May 14-18. Alabama defeated LSU in the championship game, earning the conference's automatic bid to the 1997 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.
†- Vanderbilt forfeited its conference games and tournament berth for using an ineligible player.
References
1997 Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA