Alabama is Top Seed at 2006 SEC Tournament
5/21/2006 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
The 2006 Southeastern Conference co-champion Alabama Crimson Tide is the No. 1 seed at the 2006 SEC Baseball Tournament this week (May 24-28) at the Hoover Met.
Alabama (39-17, 20-10) won a share of its league-leading 14th SEC Championship with a three-game sweep at Tennessee this weekend. The Crimson Tide trailed Kentucky game heading into the final weekend of play. UK dropped two games against red-hot Georgia (14-1 in last 15 G) to slip into first-place tie with Alabama.
Alabama last won the SEC Championship in 1996. This is Kentucky's first-ever SEC baseball championship.
The Crimson Tide is the No. 1 seed at the SEC Tournament for the first time since 1996. Alabama has won six SEC Tournament titles under head coach Jim Wells in 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2002 and 2003.
In a tournament first, one bracket at this year's tournament will consist of all Western Division teams, while the other will include four Eastern Division squads.
Alabama (No. 1), Arkansas (No. 4), Ole Miss (No. 5) and LSU (No. 8) will be in one bracket, while Kentucky (No. 2), Georgia (No. 3), Vanderbilt (No. 6) and South Carolina (No. 7) will be in the other.
Here is the 2006 SEC Tournament Bracket:
Wednesday, May 24
Game 1 10:00 a.m. #7 South Carolina vs. #2 Kentucky [CSS]
Game 2 1:00 p.m. #6 Vanderbilt vs. #3 Georgia [CSS]
Game 3 5:00 p.m. #8 LSU vs. #1 Alabama [CSS]
Game 4 8:00 p.m. #5 Ole Miss vs. #4 Arkansas [CSS]
Thursday, May 25
Game 5 10:00 a.m. Loser Game 1 vs. Loser Game 2 [CSS]
Game 6 1:00 p.m. Loser Game 3 vs. Loser Game 4 [CSS]
Game 7 5:00 p.m. Winner Game 1 vs. Winner Game 2 [CSS]
Game 8 8:00 p.m. Winner Game 3 vs. Winner Game 4 [CSS]
Friday, May 26
Game 9 3:00 p.m. Winner Game 5 vs. Loser Game 7 [FSN]
Game 10 6:30 p.m. Winner Game 6 vs. Loser Game 8 [FSN]
Saturday, May 27
Game 11 10:00 a.m. Winner Game 7 vs. Winner Game 9 [FSN]
Game 12 1:30 p.m. Winner Game 8 vs. Winner Game 10 [FSN]
Game 13* 5:00 p.m. Winner Game 11 vs. Loser Game 11 [CSS]
Game 14* 8:30 p.m. Winner Game 12 vs. Loser Game 12 [CSS]
Sunday, May 28
Game 15* 3:00 p.m. Winner Game 13 vs. Winner Game 14 [FSN]
* - Game 13 will be necessary if the winner of Game 9 also wins Game 11.
* - Game 14 will be necessary if the winner of Game 10 also wins Game
12. If Game 13 is not necessary, Game 14 would start at 5:00 p.m.
* - If both bracket winners are undefeated, there will be no 5:00 p.m.
or 8:30 p.m. games on Saturday and the championship game would be Game
13.
All Times are Central
[FSN] - FOX Sports Net South, FOX Sports Net Southwest, Sun Sports
[CSS] - Comcast/Charter Sports Southeast
The second and fourth games each day will begin 30 minutes following the
previous game, but no earlier than the designated start time.
