Auburn baseball riding the wave of an eight-game win streak to finish the regular season, earned the No. 5 seed in the 2023 Southeastern Conference Baseball that starts Tuesday at the Hoover Met.

Head coach Butch Thompson might not need much film study since Auburn plays 12-seed Missouri in a game scheduled to start around 8 pm CT Tuesday on the tournament’s opening day. No. 19 Auburn defeated Missouri 9-7 Saturday with a late-inning comeback.

Auburn swept Missouri in a three-game series on the final weekend of regular season action. Fans can watch the game on SEC Network.

The Tigers will play the last game of four scheduled in the opening round. Auburn would also play in the late game if they advance against Missouri.

Auburn and Missouri’s game will be single-elimination. If Auburn advances, the Tigers will face No.4 Vanderbilt in a double-elimination series. Semifinal games on Saturday and Sunday’s championship are single-elimination contests.

Auburn’s win streak is the longest in SEC action for the team since the 1995 Tigers won nine consecutive conference games. Auburn ends the regular season by winning an SEC-best 12 of 15 games in the second half to bounce back from a 5-10 conference start.

Thompson took a moment after Saturday’s game to acknowledge Tiger fans for selling out all 15 conference games at Plainsman Park for the first time in school history.

“Our crowd has been amazing,” Thompson said. “They were rewarded today for finishing the season with us. They got really loud. People are impacting the game. We’re at level two, and the best is yet to come; we’ll get to level three. We’re going to give Plainsman Park a facelift and really make an investment in this ballpark. It’s only going to get better.”