The 2000 SEC Baseball Tournament was held at Hoover Metropolitan Stadium in Hoover

Hoover, Alabama

Hoover is a city in Jefferson and Shelby Counties in north central Alabama, in the United States. The largest suburb of Birmingham, the population of the city was 62,742 as of the 2000 census and 81,619 in the 2010 census. Hoover is part of the Birmingham-Hoover, AL MSA and is also included in the...

, Alabama

Alabama

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 from May 17th through May 21st. Louisiana State University

LSU Tigers baseball

The LSU baseball team represents Louisiana State University in NCAA Division I college baseball.Along with the other LSU athletic teams, the baseball team participates in the West division of the Southeastern Conference...

 defeated the University of Florida

Florida Gators

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 in the championship game, earning the Southeastern Conference

Southeastern Conference

The Southeastern Conference is an American college athletic conference that operates in the southeastern part of the United States. It is headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama...

's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament

2000 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament

The 2000 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament was held from May 26 through June 17, 2000. 64 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. The tournament culminates with 8...

. LSU would go on to win the national championship at the College World Series

2000 College World Series

The 2000 College World Series was held June 9 through June 17, 2000 in Omaha, Nebraska. Eight NCAA Division I college baseball teams met after having played their way through a 64-team bracket to play at historic Rosenblatt Stadium. LSU beat Stanford in the single-game final.It was the 54th College...

 in Omaha, NE, their fifth national championship in 10 seasons.

Regular Season Results

Team W L Pct GB Seed Eastern Division South Carolina 25 5 .833 -- 1 Florida 18 11 .621 6.5 4 Georgia 14 15 .483 10.5 7 Kentucky 12 16 .429 12 8 Tennessee 10 18 .357 14 -- Vanderbilt 5 24 .172 19.5 --

Team W L Pct GB Seed Western Division LSU 19 10 .655 -- 2 Mississippi State 17 10 .630 1 3 Auburn 17 13 .567 2.5 5 Alabama 16 14 .533 3.5 6 Ole Miss 12 17 .414 7 -- Arkansas 8 20 .286 10.5 --

Tournament

• Vanderbilt
  Vanderbilt Commodores
  The Vanderbilt Commodores are the NCAA athletic teams of Vanderbilt University, located in Nashville, Tennessee. The university fields 16 varsity teams , 14 of which compete in the Southeastern Conference...
  
  , Ole Miss
  Ole Miss Rebels
  University of Mississippi sports teams, originally known as the "Mississippi Flood" , were re-named the Rebels in 1936 and compete in the twelve-member Southeastern Conference of the NCAA's Division I. The school's colors are cardinal red and navy blue , purposely chosen to mirror the school...
  
  , Arkansas
  Arkansas Razorbacks
  The Razorbacks, also known as the Hogs, are the names of college sports teams at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The term Arkansas Razorbacks properly applies to any of the sports teams at the university. The Razorbacks take their name from the feral pig of the same name...
  
   and Tennessee
  Tennessee Volunteers
  The Tennessee Volunteers and Lady Volunteers are the National Collegiate Athletic Association college sports teams at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee. Mike Hamilton is the most recent Men's Athletic Director, but resigned on June 7, 2011, and Joan Cronan is the current Women's...
  
   did not make the tournament.

All-Tournament Team

Position	Player	School
1B	Brad Hawpe Brad Hawpe Bradley Bonte Hawpe is an American professional baseball outfielder and first baseman.-High school and college:...	LSU
2B	Sam Bozanich	Alabama
3B	Blair Barbier Blair Barbier Blair Matthew Barbier is a former professional baseball player for the Chicago Cubs organization, former baseball standout for Louisiana State University and former volunteer assistant baseball coach with LSU for the 2007 season...	LSU
SS	Drew Meyer Drew Meyer Drew Edward Meyer is a Major League Baseball player in the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim organization. Meyer made his major league debut on April 21, , for the Texas Rangers in a game against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays...	South Carolina
C	Kelley Gulledge	Alabama
OF	Wally Pontiff	LSU
OF	Cedrick Harris	LSU
OF	Tim Olson Tim Olson Timothy Lane Olson is a former American professional baseball player who was an infielder for two Major League Baseball teams in the 2000s...	Florida
DH	Kurt Keene	Florida
P	Mike Smalley	Florida
P	Brian Tallet Brian Tallet Brian Curtis Tallet is an American professional baseball pitcher who is currently a free agent. He stands 6' 6" in height. Brian Tallet pitched for the LSU Tigers and won a national championship in 2000....	LSU
MVP	Wally Pontiff	LSU

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