Auburn baseball starts SEC Tournament play Thursday. Here are the cases for and against the Tigers making a run in Hoover.

Auburn will start SEC tournament play in the second round against either Texas A&M or Mississippi State, and a matchup with the Bulldogs would be a Quad I opportunity. If Auburn wins in Round 2, it will face LSU, the No. 1 team in the country in all five major polls and a team Auburn swept at Plainsman Park in April.

No. 1 LSU will return to action on Friday night in Hoover (Ala.) for an SEC Tournament showdown to open postseason play. Jay Johnson and Co. will square off aga

Despite losing two of three games at Ole Miss to end the regular season, Auburn baseball is still looked at as a Top 8 national seed by at least two projections with the SEC Tournament in Hoover up next.

Columbia has clinched an automatic bid as the Ivy League tournament champion. The SEC is likely to dominate the national seeds and hosting conversation. As many as six SEC teams could get national seeds,

Auburn had one of the best teams in the country last season, but it is losing a lot before trying to repeat that next year.

Texas A&M baseball outfielder Jace LaViolette left the SEC tournament game against Auburn Thursday after a pitch hit him on the knuckle.

Texas A&M is a win closer to playing its way off the bubble and into the NCAA baseball tournament, but the Aggies lost a big part of their team. Jake LaViolette, projected a a top-10 pick in this summer's MLB draft,