[1][2] The tournament has been held every year since 1977, with LSU claiming eleven championships, the most of any school.

This is the seventeenth consecutive year and nineteenth overall that the event has been held at Hoover Metropolitan Stadium, known from 2007 through 2012 as Regions Park.

The SEC implemented experimental instant replay rules at the 2014 tournament.

The rules allowed review of fair/foul, home run, and spectator interference calls.

[3] 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.