This year’s 2021 Phillips 66 Big 12 Championship will run from Tuesday, May 25 through Sunday, May 30 and will be held at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark in Oklahoma City. Jenni Carlson contributed to this report.OKLAHOMA CITY – The 2021 Big 12 Baseball championship will be contested this week and you can watch live streaming online coverage of the tournament as the action unfolds. "With several schools west of the Mississippi, the SEC will have to have some championships (in that area)," Hollenbeck said. Other SEC championships could also eventually migrate to Texas and Oklahoma with the league's new members.
"I personally think the best one (to pursue) would be softball," Hollenbeck said.įuture SEC Softball Tournament scheduled campus sites are Florida (2022), Arkansas (2023), Georgia (2024), Auburn (2025), Kentucky (2026), LSU (2027), Missouri (2028) and Ole Miss (2029). It has also hosted the Big 12 Tournament since 1996, although the conference did not hold a tournament from 2011-2016. Hall of Fame Stadium in Oklahoma City is home to the Women's College World Series, collegiate softball's Division I championship event. The 2021 tournament was held in Tuscaloosa. Oklahoma City could also have a future interest in the SEC Softball Tournament, which has rotated among campus sites since 2004, with previous events held at neutral sites in Columbus, Ga., Chattanooga, Tenn., and Plant City, Fla.
"I think the general answer is yes, go for what you can," she said. Sue Hollenbeck, former sports business director at the Oklahoma City Convention and Visitors Bureau and now now special projects manager with the City of Oklahoma City, encourages her city to pursue the baseball tournament. Hallman said the city has plans to invest further in the stadium and facilities. "We have a vision for the future that bodes well." That takes a long time to develop, and we've done that. Hoover and SEC baseball has become a hashtag. "We have such a great tradition to say, 'Are you going to make it to Hoover this year?' for the tournament. "We certainly want to keep it in Hoover," Hall man said. Gene Hallman, president of the Alabama Sports Council, had planned to sit down with SEC commissioner Greg Sankey this summer to talk about making Hoover the long-term home for the baseball tournament like Atlanta has been for the SEC football championship game and Nashville is for the men's basketball tournament, which will be held at Bridgestone Arena every year from 2023-2035. Vincent indicated that the process to determine a home for the baseball tournament beyond 2022 has not begun. The current contract with the Alabama Sports Council to host the event in Hoover was awarded through an open bidding process. "Our members have been pleased with Hoover, especially the expansion they've done," SEC spokesman Herb Vincent said, citing the creation of the Finley Center fan fair space and adjacent ballfields for teams to practice as a "baseball campus" for the tournament. The city spent some $80 in improvements to keep the tournament.
Nashville, New Orleans, Memphis and Jacksonville, Fla., all bid in 2016 to lure the SEC Tournament from Hoover, its home since 1998 (and in two prior years, with most previous tournaments held at campus sites). Both schools informed the Big 12 that they will not renew their current grant-of-rights deals (which allow the conference to negotiate television and other media deals involving their contests), which run through 2025. The SEC voted 14-0 this week to invite the current Big 12 Conference members into the league, and both accepted Friday.
Oklahoma City may have an interest in luring the tournament from Hoover when Oklahoma and Texas join the SEC. The SEC's deal to hold the conference tournament at the former minor league stadium in Hoover, Alabama, was extended for two years in 2019 to take it through 2021. That would have made the tournament in May of this year the final one under the current deal, but the league added a year because no event was held in 2020 due to the season being halted by COVID-19. The SEC Baseball Tournament will be played at the Hoover Met in 2022, but the event's location after next season is up in the air.
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