• SEC Now and The Paul Finebaum Show Live from Gainesville
• No.5 Vanderbilt at No.1 Florida Baseball Selected as SEC Network Wildcard Game; Entire Three-Game Series Now to be Televised
• SEC Now in Starkville for SEC Softball Tournament; Games on SEC Network, ESPNU and ESPN 

SEC Network studio shows hit the road next week, with sets at Mississippi State and the University of Florida on Friday, May 13. SEC Now starts the day surrounding the SEC Softball Tournament Semifinals in Starkville, Ms. before tossing to The Paul Finebaum Show set live in Gainesville, Fla. attending a top five college baseball matchup featuring two SEC teams.

SEC Now, the home for Southeastern Conference news and information, is providing pre- and post-game analysis from the SEC Softball Tournament Semifinals games* airing on ESPNU at 3 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. Maria Taylor hosts the afternoon edition (2:30 p.m.) and is joined by college softball analysts Kayla Braud and Jenny Dalton-Hill and reporter Jane Slater. Beth Mowins, Amanda Scarborough, and Michele Smith will call the two semifinal softball games with Laura Rutledge reporting. SEC Now in Starkville will air from beyond the outfield wall of Nusz Park.

The Paul Finebaum Show (3 p.m.) makes its Florida baseball debut following SEC Now, for Game 1 of No.5 Vanderbilt at No.1 Florida (7 p.m.). The game was selected as SEC Network’s May 13 Wildcard Game, the third of four games slated as Wildcard selections this season. Tom Hart and Kyle Peterson will call the Commodores-Gators matchup. This will mark the second time Finebaum has traveled to a college baseball game. Last year, Finebaum took his show to South Carolina to see then No. 4 Vanderbilt play.

Immediately following the matchup on SEC Network, SEC Now closes out the action from Gainesville, capping a day of more than eight hours of live production from the two sets, in two states. Dari Nowkhah anchors the late edition of SEC Now with college baseball analysts Ben McDonald and Todd Walker. Both The Paul Finebaum Show and SEC Now sets are live from Dizney Plaza at Alfred A. McKethan Stadium.

*Please note: SEC Now will air from SEC Softball Tournament in Starkville beginning Wednesday, May 11, and continue through the duration of the tournament (May 11-14). Remaining details will be announced in the coming days. 

ESPN’s College Softball Conference Tournament Schedule
ESPN will televise the entire SEC Softball Championship with the first (May 11) and second rounds (May 12) on SEC Network, the aforementioned semifinals (May 13) on ESPNU and the championship game (May 14) on ESPN. Additionally, ESPN will televise the ACC and American Championship games (May 14), ESPNU will air the SWAC Championship (May 15), and ESPN3 will stream the Atlantic Sun, Big South, Horizon League, Missouri Valley, Southern, Southland and Sun Belt Conference Championship games (May 13-14). Full details will be released in the coming days.

ESPN’s College Baseball Schedule
As a result of the May 13 Vanderbilt-Florida matchup being selected as the SEC Network wildcard game, the entire three-game series between the SEC rivals will be televised, with the May 14 matchup on ESPN2 at 4 p.m. and the May 15 game on SEC Network at 1 p.m. A complete season schedule for ESPN’s college baseball schedule can be found here, while this week’s (May 3-May 9) schedule is below. ESPNU and SEC Network will each have another wildcard game on May 19 with that selection to be announced in the coming days.

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