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Where Tennessee Baseball ranks in national polls ahead of SEC Tournament

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Dylan Loy. Credit: Tennessee Athletics/Kate Luffman
Dylan Loy. Credit: Tennessee Athletics/Kate Luffman

Tennessee baseball dropped once again in the national polls this week as the regular season has come to a close and the Southeastern Conference is on deck this week from Hoover, Ala.

UT (41-15, 16-14 SEC) concluded the conference slate tied for seventh in the league with a 16-14 record. Ole Miss and Alabama also finished with the same mark in conference play, but since all three teams didn’t play each other this season, a tiebreaker system was used to determined seeding for the SEC Tournament this week in Hoover, Ala.

The Rebels are the 7-seed, Vols the 8-seed and the Crimson Tide is the 9-seed based on record against common opponents. Tennessee awaits the winner of Tuesday’s (16) Missouri and (9) Alabama battle for their first opponent in Hoover.   

With the series-loss at Arkansas this weekend, the Vols end the regular season dropping five-straight series and six of thier past seven sets. Tennessee’s loss on Saturday marked the fifth-straight rubber match loss for the Vols, which ran their record in such games to 2-6 on the season. The last rubber match Tennessee won was on April 13 at Ole Miss.

According to D1 Baseball, the poll this website uses for its ranking system, the Vols check in at No. 21, down four spots from last week. Tennessee is the ninth of 10 programs from the SEC to crack the top-25 by the publication, coming in two spots ahead of Alabama at No. 23.

LSU, Texas, North Carolina, Oregon and Arkansas comprise the top-five while Florida State, Oregon State, Auburn, Vanderbilt and Georgia make up the top-10, according to D1 Baseball. Florida checks in at No. 15 and Ole Miss is slated at No. 17.

Tennessee dropped three spots down to No. 17 in this week’s USA TODAY Coaches Poll, five spots to No. 24 by Perfect Game and six spots to No. 23 from Baseball America. The National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association has yet to update their weekly poll at the time of this writing.   

The Volunteers are currently projected (by D1 Baseball) as a No. 2 seed in the Atlanta Region with Georgia Tech claiming the No. 16 overall seed. No. 1 overall seed Texas and the Austin Regional would matchup with the winner of the Atlanta Regional in supers under this simulation.  

Vols in the National Polls this Week

USA TODAY: No. 17 (-3)
D1 Baseball: No. 21 (-4)
Baseball America: No. 23 (-6)
Perfect Game: No. 24 (-5)
NCBWA: No. 12 (not updated)

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