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2011 SEC Baseball Tournament: Live Blog
Published by Jim Folsom on May 25, 2011
The SEC baseball tournament starts today in Hoover, Alabama. Three of the top-four rated teams in the country, Florida, South Carolina and Vanderbilt, will be in action today. All three are in great shape to be one of the eight national seeds for the NCAA tournament.
The winner will receive an automatic bid into the NCAAs, which start next week.
For Auburn, Alabama and Mississippi State, this may be their only shot. It may be for Georgia, too. Georgia must win at least two games in this tournament to be eligible for the NCAA tournament because to be eligible a team must be at least .500.
UGA's strength of schedule makes them a strong possibility if they can qualify.
LSU has likely played its way into the tournament even though they don't play this weekend. They are going into the postseason hot.
Auburn, Alabama and Mississippi State are all above .500 overall but under .550 in the SEC. Auburn is in the most precarious position at 39-27 overall. But it would not be good for either of these teams to go 0-2 this weekend.
Mississippi State is 34-21 and Alabama is...
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