With 2 additional teams coming to the SEC for the 2025 baseball season, the league has announced a change to its conference tournament format.

The event will have all 16 teams in a single-elimination format. The tournament currently operates single elimination round in round one, double elimination thereafter.

The tournament this year returns to the Hoover Metropolitan Complex in Hoover, Alabama, May 21-26.

Under the existing format, the top 12 teams in the final 14-team regular season standings participate in a hybrid single/double elimination tournament over a six-day period.

The revised format, which debuts in May 2025, will continue to be a 6-day tournament with 4 games each on Tuesday and Wednesday of the tournament, 2 games each on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and the championship game on Sunday.

Seeds 9 through 16, as determined by the final regular season standings, will play on the Tuesday of the tournament and seeds 5 through 8 will receive a bye to Wednesday. Seeds 1 through 4 will receive a double-bye to games on Thursday or Friday.

SEC BASEBALL TOURNAMENT FORMAT (beginning May 2025)

Tuesday

Game 1: Seed No. 9 vs. Seed No. 16
Game 2: Seed No. 12 vs. Seed No. 13
Game 3: Seed No. 10 vs. Seed No. 15
Game 4: Seed No. 11 vs. Seed No. 14

Wednesday

Game 5: Winner Game 1 vs. Seed No. 8
Game 6: Winner Game 2 vs. Seed No. 5
Game 7: Winner Game 3 vs. Seed No. 7
Game 8: Winner Game 4 vs. Seed No. 6

Thursday

Game 9: Winner Game 5 vs. Seed No. 1
Game 10: Winner Game 6 vs. Seed No. 4

Friday

Game 11: Winner Game 7 vs. Seed No. 2
Game 12: Winner Game 8 vs. Seed No. 3

Saturday

Game 13: Winner Game 9 vs. Winner Game 10
Game 14: Winner Game 11 vs. Winner Game 12

Sunday

Game 15: Championship – Winner Game 13 vs. Winner Game 14