2010 Southeastern Conference baseball tournament

2010 Southeastern Conference
baseball tournament

Teams	8
Format	Double elimination with flipped brackets
Finals site	Regions Park Hoover, Alabama
Champions	LSU (9th title)
Winning coach	Paul Mainieri (3rd title)
MVP	Austin Nola (LSU)
Attendance	126,071

The 2010 Southeastern Conference baseball tournament was held at Regions Park in Hoover, AL from May 26 through 30. LSU won the tournament for the third straight season and earned the Southeastern Conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.

Regular Season results

The top eight teams (based on conference results) from the conference earned invites to the tournament.

Eastern Division Team W L T Pct GB Seed Florida 22 8 .733 - 1 South Carolina 21 9 .700 1 3 Vanderbilt 16 12 .571 4 5 Kentucky 13 17 .433 9 - Tennessee 12 18 .400 10 - Georgia 5 23 .179 15 -

Western Division Team W L T Pct GB Seed Auburn 20 10 .667 - 2 Arkansas 18 12 .600 2 4 Ole Miss 16 14 .533 4 6 Alabama 15 15 .500 5 7 LSU 14 16 .467 6 8 Mississippi State 6 24 .200 14 -

- Eliminated from SEC Tournament Contention
Standings after 5/22

Format

The 2010 tournament will once again feature a "flipped bracket". This means that after two days of play the undefeated team from each bracket will move into the other bracket. This reduces the number of rematches teams will have to play in order to win the tournament. Additionally, the tournament will be debuting a "pitch clock," limiting the amount of time that pitchers have to throw the ball to 20 seconds. This rule will not be in effect when runners are on base.

Tournament

	First round					Second round					Semifinals						Final
	7	Alabama	7
	2	Auburn	1
						7	Alabama	6
						6	Ole Miss	3
	6	Ole Miss	3
	3	South Carolina	0
											6	Ole Miss	0	-
											8	LSU	8	-
	2	Auburn	3*
	3	South Carolina	1*			6	Ole Miss	10*
						2	Auburn	7*
																	8	LSU	4*
	8	LSU	10
																	7	Alabama	3*
	1	Florida	6
						8	LSU	7
						5	Vanderbilt	5
	5	Vanderbilt	2
	4	Arkansas	0
											1	Florida	2	-
											7	Alabama	5	-
	4	Arkansas	3
	1	Florida	5			1	Florida	5
						5	Vanderbilt	2

• After two days of play, the undefeated team from each bracket moved to the other bracket.
• *Game went to extra innings
• ^Game ended after 7 innings because of mercy rule
• All semi-final games were 7 innings due to inclement weather in the Hoover area.

All-Tournament Team

Position	Player	School
1B	Blake Dean	LSU
2B	Tyler Hanover	LSU
3B	Jake Smith	Alabama
SS	Austin Nola	LSU
C	Brock Bennett	Alabama
OF	Mikie Mahtook	LSU
OF	Matt den Dekker	Florida
DH	Aaron Westlake	Vanderbilt
P	Ben Alsup	LSU
P	Jimmy Nelson	Alabama
MVP	Austin Nola	LSU

See also

• College World Series
• NCAA Division I Baseball Championship
• Southeastern Conference baseball tournament

External links

• SECSports.com