The Tennessee Volunteers earned the conference's automatic bid to the 2022 NCAA Division I baseball tournament.
[2] The tournament has been held every year since 1977 (with the exception of 2020), with LSU claiming twelve championships, the most of any school.
Original members Georgia and Kentucky along with 2013 addition Missouri have never won the tournament.
This is the twenty-third consecutive year and twenty-fifth overall that the event has scheduled to be held at Hoover Metropolitan Stadium, known from 2007 through 2012 as Regions Park.
The regular season division winners claim the top two seeds and the next ten teams by conference winning percentage, regardless of division, claim the remaining berths in the tournament.