1997 Southeastern Conference baseball tournament

The 1997 Southeastern Conference baseball tournament was the 1997 postseason baseball championship of the NCAA Division I Southeastern Conference, held at Golden Park in Columbus, Georgia, from May 14 through 18. Alabama [Crimson Tide baseball|Alabama] defeated LSU in the championship game, earning the conference's automatic bid to the 1997 [NCAA Division I baseball tournament].

Format

Eight teams qualified for the league tournament. The teams seeded fifth through eighth played a single-elimination play-in round. The two winners of the play-in games advanced to the main bracket, which was a six-team, double-elimination format, the same as the NCAA regional format used through 1998.

Regular season results

†- Vanderbilt forfeited its conference games and tournament berth for using an ineligible player.