With the SEC expanding to 16 teams with the addition of Texas and Oklahoma following the conclusion of the current athletics season, one major unanswered question involving baseball was how the conference tournament would be formatted.
We seemingly now have an answer to that question. According to D1Baseball’s Kendall Rogers, the SEC is ditching the double-elimination format in favor of a single-elimination setup.
Additionally, rather than only the top 12 teams making the tournament, all 16 teams will participate with the top four seeds receiving a double-bye. It’s certainly a significant departure from the previous format, and it deviates from the strategy taken by, for example, the Big Ten, which will not include all teams in the tournament post-expansion.
SCOOP: Beginning in 2025, the @SEC will institute a conference tournament format for baseball that will include all 16 teams in a single-elimination format, I am told. The top four seeds in the tourney would get a double bye in the format as well. #SEC
— Kendall Rogers (@KendallRogers) February 1, 2024
We’ll still have one more season in the current format as LSU looks to defend its national title in 2024.
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