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Where Tennessee ranks in the national polls following a series-win over South Carolina

On3 imageby:Eric Cain•05/22/23•

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Tennessee capped the regular season with its first series-win on the road, downing South Carolina two games to one. The Vols moved up in all six national polls for this week, highlighted with a top-10 ranking by Perfect Game.

Tony Vitello’s club checked in at the same spot (No. 9) in last week’s Perfect Game poll as well. Vanderbilt slid in behind the Volunteers at No. 10 in the same poll while LSU, Miami, and Coastal Carolina took spots 6-8. A new-look top-five by Perfect Game sports Wake forest at the top, following by Florida in second, Stanford in third and Arkansas and Clemson rounding out the top-five.

D1 Baseball, which is the poll Volquest follows, moved Tennessee up five spots from No. 18 to No. 13 this week. Virginia was one spot ahead of the Volunteers at No.12 while Campbell and east Carolina were slotted directly behind at No. 14 and 15, respectively. According to the D1 Baseball RPI, Tennessee begins the week at No. 16 following the series-win in Columbia.

The USA Today publication also positioned the Volunteers at No. 13 in this week’s poll, up six spots from No. 19 last week. Tennessee moved up one spot to No 18 in this week’s edition by Baseball America and leaped four spots to No. 25 by the Collegiate Baseball Newspaper, who produces a top-30 poll each week.

Tennessee checks in at No. 15 this week, up from No. 19, according to the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association.    

Tennessee in the weekly polls (May 22)

Perfect Game – No. 9 (-)

D1 Baseball – No. 13 (+5)

USA Today – No. 13 (+6)

NCBW – No. 15 (+4)

Baseball America – No. 18 (+1)

Collegiate Baseball Newspaper – No. 25 (+4)

No. 7 [seed] Tennessee takes on No. 10 Texas A&M in SEC Tournament opener

Tennessee’s matchup in the tournament will be against 10-seeded Texas A&M on Tuesday in the second game of the single-elimination round. With a victory, Tennessee would advance on to play 2-seeded Arkansas on Wednesday as the second game of the double-elimination round.

An expected start time for Tennessee and Texas A&M on Tuesday is approximately 1:30 pm ET and it will air on the SEC Network. Tony Vitello’s club concluded the regular season with a 38-18 overall record, including a 16-14 mark in league play. Tennessee ended the regular season winning 15 of its last 19 games and 11 of its final 15 SEC contests. 

Florida claimed the top-seed in the SEC Tournament and joins No. 2 Arkansas, No. 3 LSU and No. 4 Vanderbilt with first-round byes. The rest of the Tuesday single-elimination slate consists of No. 6 South Carolina vs. No. 11 Georgia, No. 8 Kentucky vs. No. 9 Alabama and No. 5 Auburn and No. 12 Missouri.

Tennessee claimed the 2022 Southeastern Conference Tournament title, knocking off Vanderbilt, LSU, Kentucky and defeated Florida in the championship game. If Tennessee were to run the table once more, it would play in the conference championship game on Sunday at 2 pm ET.   

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