SEC Baseball Tournament 2026 Tuesday Schedule and Bracket Predictions

The 2026 SEC baseball tournament kicks off on Tuesday with the eight worst teams in the conference facing off against each other.

A pair of top-25 teams, the Ole Miss Rebels and Tennessee Volunteers, headline Tuesday's slate in Hoover, Alabama.

Ole Miss and Tennessee are expected to comfortably win their contests to move on to tougher matchups on Wednesday.

The most consequential game on the Tuesday slate is the closest one on paper. The Kentucky Wildcats could use a win over the Vanderbilt Commodores to help their NCAA tournament case.

SEC Tournament Tuesday Schedule

No. 9 Ole Miss vs. No. 16 Missouri (10:30 a.m. ET, SEC Network)

No. 12 Vanderbilt vs. No. 13 Kentucky (1:30 p.m. ET, SEC Network)

No. 10 Tennessee vs. No. 15 South Carolina (5:30 p.m. ET, SEC Network)

No. 11 Oklahoma vs. No. 14 LSU (9 p.m. ET, SEC Network)

Predictions

Kentucky enters Hoover as one of the last four teams into the NCAA tournament field in the latest projection from D1Baseball.

The Wildcats are 2-4 in their last six games and dropped two of three in their regular-season series with Vanderbilt.

Run concession has been a problem for Kentucky in its recent losses. Vandy put up 21 runs on the Wildcats in their two wins in the series at the start of April.

Kentucky's allowed five double-digit run totals since April 1, and its coming off a 16-12 loss at the hands of the Arkansas Razorbacks.

Vanderbilt's offense hasn't been consistently explosive all season, but is coming off a 23-run series against the South Carolina Gamecocks.

Vandy was expected to beat one of the worst teams in the SEC to close out the regular season, but those performances should give the Commodores some inkling of confidence going into Tuesday.

Ole Miss and Tennessee are both projected to be No. 2 seeds in the NCAA tournament bracket.

The Rebels and Vols need to have easy performances on Tuesday to set up more meaningful games later in the week.

Tennessee is taking on a South Carolina team that enters on a 12-game losing streak. Ole Miss faces a Missouri squad that is 2-7 in its last nine games.

A pair of multi-run wins are expected from the Vols and Rebels.

The Oklahoma Sooners should get past the LSU Tigers in the nightcap. The Sooners won the regular-season series by limiting LSU to five runs in two wins in Baton Rouge in March.

LSU was swept in four of its last five SEC series to close out the regular season. Its only league wins in that span came in a sweep of South Carolina.

Predictions

Ole Miss 12, Missouri 3

Kentucky 9, Vanderbilt 7

Tennessee 11, South Carolina 2

Oklahoma 8, LSU 1