Continuing last year’s record-setting coverage of the SEC Baseball Tournament, SEC Network will again air the first, second, third, quarterfinal and semifinal rounds of the tournament – a total of16 games. The championship game will air on ESPN2. This 2016 SEC Baseball Tournament presented by Tire Pros marks the second year every round is available on national television.

SEC Now, the network’s flagship news and information program, will surround the games with expert analysis and interviews multiple times each day for six days at the Hoover Met Stadium in Hoover, Ala. The desk will report all of the happenings pre- and post-game from SEC Now’s on-site set location in the First Base Concourse. Additionally the show will air nearly a dozen features highlighting the best stories in SEC Baseball, and take viewers “Inside the Cage” [the batting cage] to demonstrate what makes key players so effective.

Hosts Dari Nowkhah and Peter Burns will be joined at the desk by baseball analysts Gabe Gross, Chris Burke and Kyle Peterson over the six-day stretch. Softball analyst Kayla Braud will also make the trip, providing updates on SEC softball teams concurrently competing in the NCAA Softball.

Following the tournament, on Wednesday, June 1 at 7 p.m. ET, SEC Inside: Baseball Tournament airs on SEC Network. The show will include new vantage points and unheard sound from the teams participating in the semifinals and championship games. The baseball tournament special is SEC Inside’s 20^th show and will close out its debut season on SEC Network. The show chronicled all 14 football teams, in addition to the SEC Football, Men’s & Women’s Basketball, Gymnastics, Softball and Baseball Championship games.

The schedule and matchups will be updated throughout the tournament on SECNetwork.com.

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