The 2009 SEC Baseball Tournament will be held at Regions Park in Hoover, AL from May 20th through May 24th. LSU won the tournament and earned the Southeastern Conference

Southeastern Conference

The Southeastern Conference is an American college athletic conference that operates in the southeastern part of the United States. It is headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama...

's automatic bid to the 2009 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament

2009 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament

The 2009 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament was held from May 29 through June 24, 2009 and is part of the 2009 NCAA Division I baseball season. The 64 NCAA Division I college baseball teams were selected out of an eligible 286 teams on May 25, 2009...

. LSU would go on to win the College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska.

Regular Season results

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

Team W L T Pct GB Seed Eastern Division Florida 19 11 .633 2 South Carolina 17 13 .567 2 5 Georgia 15 15 .500 4 6 Vanderbilt 12 17 .414 6.5 8 Kentucky 12 18 .400 7 Tennessee 11 19 .367 8

Team W L T Pct GB Seed Western Division LSU 20 10 .667 1 Ole Miss 20 10 .667 3 Alabama 18 11 .621 1.5 4 Arkansas 14 15 .483 5.5 7 Auburn 11 19 .367 9 Miss St. 9 20 .310 10.5

Format

The 2009 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 amount of rematches teams will have to play in order to win the tournament.

Tournament

• * Game went into extra innings.
• ^ Game ended after 8 innings due to Mercy Rule.
• Auburn, Mississippi St., Kentucky and Tennessee did not make the tournament.

All-Tournament Team

Position	Player	School
1B	Preston Tucker	Florida
2B	Bo Bigham	Arkansas
3B	Zach Cox	Arkansas
SS	Austin Nola	LSU
SS	Ben Tschepikow	Arkansas
C	Andrew Giobbi	Vanderbilt
OF	Mikie Mahtook	LSU
OF	Jonathan Pigott	Florida
OF	Steven Liddle	Vanderbilt
DH	Blake Dean Blake Dean (baseball) - External links :* at LSUSports.net...	LSU
P	Mike Minor Mike Minor (Baseball) -External links:*****...	Vanderbilt
P	Daniel Bradshaw	LSU
MVP	Mikie Mahtook	LSU

See also

• College World Series
  College World Series
  The College World Series or CWS is an annual baseball tournament held in Omaha, Nebraska that is the culmination of the NCAA Division I Baseball Championship, which determines the NCAA Division I college baseball champion. The eight teams are split into two, four-team, double-elimination brackets,...
  
  
• NCAA Division I Baseball Championship
  NCAA Division I Baseball Championship
  The NCAA Division I Baseball Championship tournament is held each year from May through June and features 64 college baseball teams in the United States, culminating in the College World Series....
  
  
• SEC Baseball Tournament
  SEC Baseball Tournament
  The SEC Baseball Tournament is the conference championship tournament in baseball for the Southeastern Conference . It is a double-elimination tournament and seeding is based on regular season records. The winner receives the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament...
  
  

External links

• 2009 SEC Baseball Tournament @ SECSports.com