The 1998 SEC Baseball Tournament was held at Hoover Metropolitan Stadium in Hoover

Hoover, Alabama

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, Alabama

Alabama

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 from May 13th through May 17th. Auburn

Auburn Tigers

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 defeated Arkansas

Arkansas Razorbacks

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 in the championship game, earning the Southeastern Conference

Southeastern Conference

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's automatic bid to the 1998 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament

1998 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament

The 1998 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament was held from May 21 through June 6, 1998. Forty-eight NCAA Division I college baseball teams met after having played their way through a regular season, and for some, a conference tournament, to play in the NCAA Tournament...

.

Regular Season Results

The top four teams (based on conference results) from both the Eastern and Western Divisions earned invites to the tournament. The 12 teams played a 30-game conference schedule, playing 10 three-game series. Each team did not play one team from the opposite division.

For the first time, the SEC tournament used the Omaha format, which was first adopted at the College World Series

College World Series

The College World Series or CWS is an annual baseball tournament held in Omaha, Nebraska that is the culmination of the NCAA Division I Baseball Championship, which determines the NCAA Division I college baseball champion. The eight teams are split into two, four-team, double-elimination brackets,...

 in 1988. The eight teams were seeded and divided into two four-team brackets; seeds 2, 3, 6 and 7 made up bracket one and seeds 1, 4, 5 and 8 made up bracket two. Bracket play was double elimination. The two bracket winners met in a single championship game.

Tournament

• Georgia, Ole Miss, Tennessee, and Vanderbilt did not make the tournament.

All-Tournament Team

Most Valuable Player
Rodney Nye, Arkansas

Position	Player	School
1B	Rodney Nye	Arkansas
2B	Heath Kelly	Auburn
3B	Chad Wandall	Auburn
SS	Joe Jester	Arkansas
C	Brent Caldwell	Arkansas
OF	Hayden Gliemmo	Auburn
OF	Drew Bounds	Alabama
OF	Jack Welsh	Arkansas
DH	Jayson Cox	Alabama
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P	Jarrod Kingrey	Alabama
MVP	Rodney Nye	Arkansas

See also

• College World Series
  College World Series
  The College World Series or CWS is an annual baseball tournament held in Omaha, Nebraska that is the culmination of the NCAA Division I Baseball Championship, which determines the NCAA Division I college baseball champion. The eight teams are split into two, four-team, double-elimination brackets,...
  
  
• NCAA Division I Baseball Championship
  NCAA Division I Baseball Championship
  The NCAA Division I Baseball Championship tournament is held each year from May through June and features 64 college baseball teams in the United States, culminating in the College World Series....
  
  
• SEC Tournament