SEC Softball Tournament

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The SEC Softball Tournament (sometimes known simply as the SEC Tournament) is the conference championship tournament in college softball for the Southeastern Conference (SEC). It is a single-elimination (since 2006) tournament and seeding is based on regular season records. The winner receives the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Division I Softball Tournament.

1 Tournament
2 History
3 Champions
- 3.1 Year-by-year
- 3.2 By school
4 External links

[edit] Tournament

The SEC Softball tournament is a single-elimination tournament held each year at various SEC-conference campus stadiums. Eight of the 11 teams in the SEC make the tournament each year (Vanderbilt does not sponsor a softball team).

[edit] History

The tournament has been held since 1997, when the SEC began sponsoring softball. In 1997 it was a eight-team, double-elimination tournament with byes for the top two seeds. From 1998 until 2005 it was an eight-team, double-elimination tournament with no byes. In 2006 it became an eight-team, single-elimination tournament and it remains that way today.

[edit] Champions

[edit] Year-by-year

Year	School	Venue
1997	South Carolina	Columbus, Georgia
1998	Alabama	Columbus, Georgia
1999	LSU	Columbus, Georgia
2000	South Carolina	Columbus, Georgia
2001	LSU	Jim Frost Stadium, Chattanooga, Tennessee
2002	LSU	Jim Frost Stadium, Chattanooga, Tennessee
2003	Alabama	Plant City Stadium, Plant City, Florida
2004	LSU	Alabama Softball Complex, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
2005	Alabama	Florida Softball Stadium, Gainesville, Florida
2006	Tennessee	Georgia Softball Stadium, Athens, Georgia
2007	LSU	Jane B. Moore Field, Auburn, Alabama
2008	Florida	Tiger Park, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

[edit] By school

School	Championships	Years
LSU	5	1999, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2007
Alabama	3	1998, 2003, 2005
South Carolina	2	1997, 2000
Florida	1	2008
Tennessee	1	2006
Ole Miss	0
Mississippi State	0
Auburn	0
Kentucky	0
Arkansas	0
Georgia	0