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Ole Miss to open SEC Tournament against Florida with a new start time

11by:Jake Thompson•05/20/25•

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Hoover Metropolitan Stadium. Mandatory credit: Jake Thompson

Ole Miss gets its postseason underway on Wednesday when it plays its first Southeastern Conference Tournament game of the week and now it will have to wait a tad longer.

The opponent is known, though, with 10 Seed Florida advancing over 15 Seed South Carolina to play the 7 Seed Rebels. The game was scheduled to start at approximately 4:30 p.m. CT at Hoover Metropolitan Stadium but will now be at approximately 8 p.m. CT and the final game of the day.

Due to expected weather in the Hoover area on Tuesday night the SEC postponed the game between 11 Seed Mississippi State and 14 Seed Texas A&M to Wednesday at 9:30 a.m. CT, bumping all the regular schedule games back by one slot.

For Ole Miss the matchup with the Gators is one that has major NCAA Tournament implications when it comes to earning a hosting bid. The game is one where the winner gets the edge in being named one of the 16 Regional sites on Sunday.

“The first teams (the Rebels) need to watch out for are the ones in their own conference,” Baseball America’s Jacob Rudner said on Monday. “Florida is a threat now to host after the way they’ve closed out the season — 14-4 record over their final 18 games, they’ve won six straight conference series and RPI is now better than Ole Miss.”

The Rebels will go with ace Hunter Elliott on the mound to try and get one step closer to locking up bringing postseason baseball back to Oxford. When Elliott faced Florida on March 27 he picked up the win, working 5.2 innings and allowing three runs off six hits while striking out seven Gator batters.

Florida used three home runs to beat the Gamecocks, 11-3, to keep its pursuit of a host bid alive.

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