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Tennessee Baseball earns national seed, will host NCAA regional

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Syndication: The Knoxville News-Sentinel
(Jamar Coach/News Sentinel / USA TODAY NETWORK) Tennessee's mascot Smokey celebrates with the crowd during the NCAA Knoxville Super Regionals between Tennessee and Notre Dame at Lindsey Nelson Stadium in Knoxville, Tennessee on Sunday, June 12, 2022.

For the fourth time in the past five seasons, Tennessee will be hosting postseason baseball from Lindsey Nelson Stadium.

The Vols were one of 16 programs who claimed a national seed as the NCAA Baseball X account announced the NCAA regional hosting sites Sunday evening. No specific seedings were announced, just the 16 programs who will host. Of course, that means those 16 programs are national seeds.

Monday’s Section Show, that will air at noon ET on ESPN2, will assign seeds to the 16 host sites and the corresponding teams that comprise each region. Monday’s Selection Show will also assign the top-8 seeds, who would host super regionals if the team advances.

The 2025 squad becomes the fourth team under Tony Vitello to be named a national seed and has become the sixth team he’s led to the NCAA postseason. Tennessee, of course, claimed its first national championship in program history last summer at the 2024 College World Series. UT has reached Omaha in three of the past four seasons and super regionals four times under Vitello.  

As of Sunday afternoon, the real-time RPI has Tennessee at No. 13 with a 14-11 record against Quad 1 opponents. Tennessee has 18 wins over SEC teams and picked up some good momentum in Hoover with wins over Alabama and top-seeded Texas. The Hoover successful overshadowed a sour end to the regular season that saw Tennessee drop its final five series and six of the past seven.    

Tennessee pounded out a season-high 20 hits in the win over Alabama in Hoover on Wednesday and erased an early 4-0 deficit against the top-seeded Longhorns on Thursday to outlast Texas in 12 innings.

Every projection Volquest could find on a Sunday morning thought Tennessee would host despite a log-jam of worthy programs in the mix, such as Georgia Tech, TCU, Southern Miss, Ole Miss, Alabama, UCLA and a few others.

Regional Hosts (Alphabetical Order)

Athens Regional (Georgia)
Auburn Regional
Austin Regional (Texas)
Baton Rouge Regional (LSU)
Chapel Hill Regional (UNC)
Clemson Regional
Conway Regional (Coastal Carolina)
Corvallis Regional (Oklahoma State)
Eugene Regional (Oregon)
Fayetteville Regional (Arkansas)
Hattiesburg Regional (Southern Miss)
Knoxville Regional (Tennessee)
Los Angeles Regional (UNLV)
Nashville Regional (Vanderbilt)
Oxford Regional (Ole Miss)
Tallahassee Regional (Florida State)

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