With the regular season in the books, the 2025 SEC Baseball Tournament is on the horizon. Teams will converge on Hoover Metropolitan Complex next week, and the full bracket and seeds are officially set.

Texas secured the regular-season title Thursday night with a victory over rival Oklahoma. That gave the Longhorns the No. 1 seed in their first season in the SEC, and the rest of the bracket came into focus throughout the weekend.

Now, the field is in place. Here is the full bracket and seeds for the 2025 SEC Baseball Tournament, which gets underway Tuesday from Hoover Met.

2025 SEC Baseball Tournament bracket

Tuesday, May 20

Game 1: No. 9 Alabama vs. No. 16 Missouri – 10:30 a.m. ET, SEC Network
Game 2: No. 12 seed Oklahoma vs. No. 13 seed Kentucky – 1:30 p.m. ET, SEC Network
Game 3: No. 10 seed Florida vs. No. 15 seed South Carolina – 5:30 p.m. ET, SEC Network
Game 4: No. 11 seed Mississippi State vs. No. 14 seed Texas A&M – 9 p.m. ET, SEC Network

Wednesday, May 21

Game 5: No. 8 seed Tennessee vs. Winner of Game 1 – 10:30 a.m. ET, SEC Network
Game 6: No. 5 seed Georgia vs. Winner of Game 2 – 1:30 p.m. ET, SEC Network
Game 7: No. 7 seed Ole Miss vs. Winner of Game 3 – 5:30 p.m. ET, SEC Network
Game 8: No. 6 seed Auburn vs. Winner of Game 4 – 9 p.m. ET, SEC Network

Thursday, May 22

Game 9: No. 1 seed Texas vs. Winner of Game 5 – 4 p.m. ET, SEC Network
Game 10: No. 4 seed Vanderbilt vs. Winner of Game 6 – approx. 7 p.m. ET, SEC Network

Friday, May 23

Game 11: No. 2 seed Arkansas vs. Winner of Game 7 – 4 p.m. ET, SEC Network
Game 12: No. 3 seed LSU vs. Winner of Game 8 – approx. 7 p.m. ET, SEC Network

Saturday, May 24

Game 13: Winner of Game 9 vs. Winner of Game 10 – 1 p.m. ET, SEC Network
Game 14: Winner of Game 11 vs. Winner of Game 12 – approx. 4 p.m. ET, SEC Network

Sunday, May 25

Championship Game: Winner of Game 13 vs. Winner of Game 14 – 3 p.m. ET, ESPN2

It all comes down to next week at Hoover Met as the 2025 SEC Baseball Tournament gets underway. From there, it’s off to the NCAA Tournament as the road to Omaha begins.

During his career as a head coach, Urban Meyer coached all over. That included with the Florida Gators in the SEC and the Ohio State Buckeyes in the Big Ten. Now, as an analyst, he believes the Big Ten has passed the SEC as a football conference.

Meyer made an appearance on Another Dooley Noted Podcast. There, he argued that the Big Ten has passed the SEC. At least, he believes the top of the conference has done so, even if it doesn’t have the same kind of depth.

“Well, you know what the SEC’s done? It’s raised the level,” Urban Meyer said. “But the Big Ten has passed the SEC at the upper part. If you would have told me that 10 years ago, I would’ve said it’s not even close. Because it’s not.”

The Big Ten has won the last two national championships, with Michigan and Ohio State going home with titles. This past season, the first year of the expanded College Football Playoff, the Big Ten got four teams in compared to only three SEC teams. That’s after a run where the SEC won five out of six national championships from 2017 through 2022.

For his part, Urban Meyer got to Ohio State in 2012 and coached the Buckeyes through 2018. Along the way, he won a national championship and likes to think that he helped change the Big Ten’s approach at the top.

“When I first got to the Big Ten, even Shelley said, ‘What in the world? This is a slow man’s game up here,’ and I like to think that the Buckeyes really changed that. Then everyone else started investing in their schools,” Meyer said. “And started recruiting the best player, not just the footprint. As a result, the Wolverine team two years ago was one of the best teams I’ve seen. The Buckeyes team this year is one of the best I’ve ever seen. You’re seeing Penn State, and some of these teams have great success.”

Narratives can shift quickly in college football. All it’s going to take is another SEC team win it all next season to resolidify the SEC atop college football. Certainly, the SEC has the depth to do so too. It’s just a matter if someone at the top can pass the Big Ten at the top.

“So, I’m anxious to see the SEC fight back for that because next year’s another year. And I’ll close with this. The SEC, that SEC-Big Ten fight, the top obviously the last two years goes to the Big Ten,” Meyer said. “But still, that middle to the bottom, it’s the SEC by far. You’ve got eight teams, nine teams in the SEC that think they can go win a national title, no other conference has ever had that.”

Hunter Dickinson recently capped off his college basketball career, having played for the Kansas Jayhawks and Michigan Wolverines.

Dickinson spent his last two seasons at Kansas, playing under head coach Bill Self.

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They entered last season as the No. 1 team in the nation. The Jayhawks showed promise, yet streakiness, in Dickinson’s last season, leading to a first-round loss in the NCAA Tournament.

While the end of Dickinson’s career may have left a sour taste, he recently shared some exciting news.

On Sunday, Dickinson took to social media, reposting the Kansas Jayhawks’ announcement of the class of 2025 men’s basketball team, highlighting those who graduated from the university.

Dickinson didn’t just graduate, however; he has earned his master’s degree from the University of Kansas.

“Master’s Degree,” Dickinson said.

During Hunter Dickinson’s last season with the Kansas Jayhawks, he posted 17.4 points, 1.0 rebounds and 2.1 assists per game.

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In his five-year college basketball career, the former blue-chip recruit, averaged 17.4 points, 9.2 rebounds and 1.8 assists per game.

Early into his career, Dickinson established himself as one of the best centers in the nation.

Hunter Dickinson began his career with the Michigan Wolverines in 2020. He committed to Michigan as a four-star recruit, ranked as the No. 10 center and the No. 43 overall player in the nation, per 247Sports.

Dickinson played under former NBA star Juwan Howard at Michigan before the Wolverines head coach was fired from the program.

After the 2023 season, Dickinson made the unexpected move to Kansas and wound up finding success on and off the court with the Jayhawks.

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Former Alabama football coach Nick Saban was in Hoover last week for the Regions Tradition, and the legendary coach spoke with the cast of local radio show “The Next Round” about the state of college football.

Saban, who has been vocal about the landscape of college football with name, image and likeness (NIL), the transfer portal, and other aspects leading to his seemingly abrupt retirement, has been rumored to help lead President Donald Trump’s commission on college athletics.

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In speaking with “The Next Round,” Saban criticized what NIL has become, saying it had gone “a little bit off the rails. He emphasized the importance of getting all state laws to mirror each other to “level the playing field.”

“Look, I want everybody to know. I’m not against players making money. I think they deserve to do that. I think name, image and likeness is no longer name, image and likeness; it’s become play for pay. So, the system that we’re paying players right now probably is a little bit off the rails. And we probably need to do something to get all the state laws the same so that everybody competes on a level playing field, authentic name, image and likeness, which means it really and truly is like a marketing opportunity. And when this House settlement comes down, there will probably be some revenue sharing and some guidelines that we can build around hopefully to make the game a little better.

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