1997 Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament
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The 1997 Southeastern Conference baseball tournament was the 1997 postseason baseball championship of the
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Division I
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, held at Golden Park in
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, from May 14 through 18.
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defeated
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in the championship game, earning the conference's automatic bid to the
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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.


Regular season results

†- Vanderbilt forfeited its conference games and tournament berth for using an ineligible player.


Tournament


Play-in games


Main bracket


All-tournament team


See also

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College World Series The College World Series (CWS), officially the NCAA Men's College World Series (MCWS), is a baseball tournament held each June in Omaha, Nebraska. It is the culmination of the NCAA Division I baseball tournament—featuring 64 teams in the ...
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NCAA Division I Baseball Championship The NCAA Division I Baseball Championship is held each year from May through June and features 64 college baseball teams in the United States, culminating in the eight-team College World Series, Men's College World Series (MCWS) at Charles Schwa ...
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References

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