Will the “interesting” Tony Vitello lead his Vols to the SEC Championship. (Photo coutresy of Vols Wire).
The Hoover Met plays host to another rendition of the SEC Baseball Tournament starting Tuesday with four single elimination games and culminating Sunday at 2 PM CT on ESPN2 for the SEC Championship Game.
SEC Network will televise all the other games as 12 teams compete for the SEC Championship and the benefits that come along with it; hosting a regional, a super-regional as a top 8 National seed, if you keep winning into the postseason, and becoming a No.1 overall seed in the tournament as four teams have a shot at that in Hoover this week. They are Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas, and Texas A&M. The weather looks excellent with only a 40% chance of rain on Friday as the only chance of inclement weather as of today per Weather.com.
Here are White’s World’s predictions for this edition. I picked Vanderbilt to win last year in my predictions and was correct.
All Times Central. All games on**** the SEC Network***** until the Championship Game, which will be broadcast by *****ESPN2*****. National rankings and seeds in that order listed before the team.
Tuesday, 5/21, Single Elimination games.
9:30 AM
No.11/6 seed Georgia (39-14, 17-13 SEC) vs. No.11 seed LSU ( 13-17, 36-20)
Give me dem Dawgs. Like their bats a lot.
Georgia 8, LSU 5
1 PM
unless there are extras, that’ll be the case in all these games.
No. 7 seed Alabama (33-21, 13-17) vs. No. 10 seed South Carolina (33-21, 13-17)
I like the Crimson Tide in a a pretty much home game here.
Alabama 10, South Carolina 7
4:30 PM
No. 8 seed Vanderbilt (35-20, 13-17) vs. No.9 seed Florida (28-26, 13-17)
There are 5 teams that finished with 13-17 records in the conference. Alabama got the ultimate tie-breaker of those 5 to earn the 7th seed. This should be an excellent matchup. The Commodores have had pitching issues, but I’ll take’em here.
Vanderbilt 7, Florida 6
7:45 PM, approximately
No.15/ 5 seed Miss. State (36-19, 17-13) vs.No.12 seed Ole Miss (27-28, 11-19)
Give me the Bullies in baseball’s Egg Bowl.
State 12, Ole Miss 6
Wednesday, Double elimination
9:30 AM
No.2 ranked/3 seed Kentucky (39-12, 22-8) vs. Georgia
Give me them Dawgs in an upset.
Georgia 6, Kentucky 5
1 PM
No.5/ No.2 seed Arkansas (43-12, 20-10) vs. Alabama
I’ll take the Crimson Tide here. Bullish on Bama at the Met.
Alabama 4, Arkansas 3
4:30 PM
No.1/ 1 seed Tennessee (46-10, 22-8) vs. Vanderbilt
I like the Dores to pull off the surprise.
Vanderbilt 7, Tennessee 6
8 PM
No.4/ 4 seed Texas A&M 44-11, 19-11) vs. Mississippi State
Bullish on these Aggies.
A&M 7, MS. State 3
Thursday
9:30 AM
Arkansas 8, Kentucky 2
The Hogs are stellar despite losing in a road game on Wednesday.
1 PM
Tennessee 8, MS. State 4
Vols are for legit and not going away easily.
4:30 PM
Alabama 5, Georgia 3
I like the Crimson Tide to keep riding their momentum and “matriculating.”
8 PM
A&M 10, Vanderbilt 7
Those bats for A&M are too much to handle for Vandy’s pitching.
Friday
3 PM
The winners from all throughout the first three days of play get a bye on Friday
Arkansas 9, Georgia 8
6:30 PM
Vanderbilt 5, Tennessee 4
Vandy finds some pitching The hitting and defense are solid.
Saturday, Single elimination
12 PM
Alabama 7, Arkansas 6
The Crimson Tide keeps up their Hoover magic advancing to Sunday’s Championship game.
3:30 PM
A&M 6, Vanderbilt 5
Dores give it a great effort, but just come up a little short.
Sunday, Championship Game, 2 PM CT, ESPN2
Alabama vs. Texas A&M
The Crimson Tide has a great ride, but the lumber of A&M with Stanford transfer third baseman Braden Montgomery, 26 homers, 80 Ribeyes, 5th and 1st respectively, leading the way, is just too much for anybody in this conference to handle. And, quite possibly, anybody in the country.
A&M 10, Alabama 5
MVP
Braden Montgomery
Montgomery hammers his team to the SEC Championship. (Photo courtesy of Texas A&M Athletics).
4 Responses
That would be huge for the Tide!
DW I am with you. I know nothing so I am going to ride your picks! Thanks for the preview.
Thanks a ton, Fellas.
I have no dog in the hunt but I think UT and aTm and Arky are far above the field. So I think those three teams advance farthest. Frankly it’s a crap shoot for many teams because no one wants to waste arms in the tournament. I will say this too. NIL $$$ are starting to show. It may actually matter less in big money sports but in the secondary sports aTm is throwing $$ around and the results are clear. The games have changed across the board.