Original members Georgia and Kentucky along with 1993 addition Arkansas have never won the tournament.

This was the sixteenth consecutive year and eighteenth overall that the event has been held at Hoover Metropolitan Stadium, formerly known as Regions Park.

[6] The regular season division winners claimed the top two seeds and the next ten teams by conference winning percentage, regardless of division, claimed the remaining berths in the tournament.

This tied the record for the longest game in SEC Tournament history, which was originally set by Arkansas and Auburn in 1994.

In the championship game, he pitched the final 2.2 innings and did not allow any of the eight batters he faced to reach base.