Tennessee positioned well as 2-seed at Indiana State on the Eve of Selection Monday
As has been the case all week since its opening round loss to Texas A&M in the Southeastern Conference Tournament, Tennessee remains as a 2-seed in the latest ‘Field of 64’ projections by D1 Baseball on the Eve of Selection Monday.
The Vols are slated to compete in the Terre Haute regional with host Indiana State as the one-seed. Tennessee’s first opponent in this model would be 3-seed Indiana with 4-seed Ball State rounding out the four-team field. UT would be the second seed in this exercise and act as the highest-ranking 2-seed in the field, projected to the lowest-ranked host site.
The Terre Haute regional is paired with Wake Forest (1) and the Winston-Salem regional for Supers. TCU (2), Iowa (3) and Eastern Illinois (4) comprise the rest of that regional. Tennessee has been linked to Indiana State’s regional all week since its departure from Hoover.
The publication boasts Wake Forest (1), Florida (2), Arkansas (3), Clemson (4), LSU (5), Vanderbilt (6), Stanford (7) and Virginia (8) as top-eight national seeds. Seeds 9-16 are Miami (9), Coastal Carolina (10), Alabama (11), Oklahoma State (12), Kentucky (13), Auburn (14), Campbell (15) and Indiana State (16) as of Sunday morning.
Campbell replaces Boston College as a host site after winning the Big South Tournament. Two new teams entered the field on Sunday with Xavier (previously one of the top-four teams OUT) taking the Big East Tournament crown. Louisiana of the Sun Belt also enters the field after knocking off Coastal Carolina to reach the conference title game.
Under this projection model, the SEC boasts the most teams with 10 – seven of which are set to host. The ACC sports eight while the Big 12 and Pac-12 have six. The Sun Belt has four teams making the field and the Big Ten with three. Additional conferences with multiple selections include the Colonial and Big West with two apiece.
Every team will learn their actual fate once conference tournaments conclude when Selection Monday airs on May 29 (ESPN 2) at noon eastern time. The 16 regional sites will be announced tonight at 8:30 pm ET.
