2009 Southeastern Conference baseball tournament

Collegiate baseball tournament

2009 Southeastern Conference
baseball tournament

Teams| 8
Format| Double elimination with flipped brackets
Finals site|

* Regions Park
* Hoover, Alabama

Champions| LSU (8th title)
Winning coach| Paul Mainieri (2nd title)
MVP| Mikie Mahtook (LSU)
Attendance| 86,048

* ← 2008
* SEC baseball tournament
* 2010 →

The 2009 Southeastern Conference baseball tournament was held at Regions Park in Hoover, AL from May 20 through 24. LSU won the tournament and earned the Southeastern Conference's automatic bid to the 2009 NCAA Division I baseball tournament. LSU won the College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska.

## Regular Season results

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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

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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  |
Western Division  | Team  | W  | L  | T  | Pct  | GB  | Seed

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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

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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 number of rematches teams will have to play in order to win the tournament.

## Tournament

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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| First round| | | Second round| | | Semifinals| | | Final
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| 7| Arkansas| 8
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| 2| Florida| 5| |
| | | 7| Arkansas| 1
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| | | 6| Georgia| 2*| |
| 6| Georgia| 6| | | |
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| 3| Ole Miss| 3| |
| | | 8| Vanderbilt| 11| -
| | | | |
| | | 7| Arkansas| 1| -| |
| 2| Florida| 12^| | | | | | |
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| 3| Ole Miss| 2| | | 7| Arkansas| 10
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| | | | 2| Florida| 7| |
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| 1| LSU| 6
| 8| Vanderbilt| 4| | |
| | | | | 8| Vanderbilt| 2
| 1| LSU| 1| | | | | | | |
| | | 8| Vanderbilt| 5|
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| | | 5| South Carolina| 4| |
| 5| South Carolina| 9*| | | |
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| 4| Alabama| 5| |
| | | 6| Georgia| 0| 2
| | | | |
| | | 1| LSU| 16| 3| |
| 1| LSU| 9| | | | | | |
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| 4| Alabama| 6| | | 5| South Carolina| 1
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| | | | 1| LSU| 4| |
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* * 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

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Position  | Player  | School

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1B  | Preston Tucker | Florida
2B  | Bo Bigham  | Arkansas
3B  | Zack 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 | LSU
P  | Mike Minor | Vanderbilt
P  | Daniel Bradshaw  | LSU
MVP | Mikie Mahtook  | LSU

## See also

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

## External links

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* 2009 SEC Baseball Tournament @ SECSports.com
* 2015 SEC Baseball Tournament Attendance @ SECSports.com

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