The Volunteers are making their third CWS appearance in the last four years, joining Virginia as the only teams to accomplish the feat.
UT’s side features three ACC teams in FSU, North Carolina and Virginia. The Big Orange faced the Cavaliers to open the 2021 CWS but have never faced the Seminoles or Tar Heels in Omaha.
NCAA MEN’S COLLEGE WORLD SERIES CENTRAL
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The 2024 NCAA MCWS bracket can be found HERE.
TICKET INFORMATION
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BROADCAST INFORMATION
TV/Stream: ESPN networks (ESPN, ESPN2, ABC)
Talent (Day Games): Karl Ravech (PxP), Eduardo Perez (analyst), Ben McDonald (analyst), Dani Wexelman (field)
Talent (Nigh Games): Mike Monaco (PxP), Kyle Peterson (analyst), Chris Burke (analyst), Kris Budden (field)
Radio: Réseau Vol (FM 99.1 / AM 990) | Tennessee Athletics App | UTSports.com | University application
Talent: John Wilkerson
Various Vol Network radio affiliates throughout the state and other surrounding areas are expected to broadcast Tennessee CWS games. Please check your local listings as game coverage varies by station.
HISTORY OF THE NCAA MEN’S COLLEGE WORLD SERIES
Previous appearances: 6 (most recent: 2023)
Overall record: 9-11 (.450)
Best result: national finalist (1951)
The Vols are making their seventh overall appearance in Omaha and their first back-to-back trips in program history. UT ended a six-game CWS losing streak last season with a 6-4 victory over Stanford and will look to advance to the Championship Series for the first time in the current tournament format.
MUST KNOW
- The Vols are just the third program in Division I history to win the top seed in the NCAA baseball tournament twice in three years, joining Florida (2016 and 2018) and Florida State ( 2002 and 2003).
- Tennessee also joins a small group of programs that have earned the No. 1 national seed multiple times, becoming the seventh to do so since the tournament moved to its current format in 1999, joining Florida, the Florida State, Miami, Oregon State and Texas. and UCLA.
- Tennessee is set to play in its third CWS in three years and seventh overall in program history.
- UT is the only SEC program and one of two nationally (Virginia) to have appeared in the College World Series in two of the last three seasons (2021, 2023, 2024).
- Since the start of the 2020 season, no team in college baseball has won more games and posted a higher winning percentage than Tennessee. UT’s 221 wins and .778 winning percentage both rank No. 1 in the nation over the last five seasons.
NCAA Division I leaders in winning the PCT (since 2020)
1.Tennessee – .778 (221-63)
2.Arkansas – .727 (194073)
3.UC Santa Barbara – .717 (177-70)
4. East Carolina – .715 (196-78)
5. Dallas Baptist – .698 (179-77-1)
- Just like it did the last time it earned the No. 1 national seed in 2022, Tennessee won the SEC regular season and SEC Tournament crowns. The Vols shared the regular season title with Kentucky after going 22-8 in league play and won their fifth tournament championship in program history by defeating LSU, 4-3, in the championship.
- Tennessee saw four players earn NCBWA All-America honors earlier this week: Blake Burke (1st Team), Chrisitan Moore (2sd Team), Drawn beam (3rd Team) and AJ Causey (3rd Team).
- Freshman LHP Dylan Loy also earned NCBWA Freshman All-America honors earlier this week.
- Moore is having one of the greatest seasons in program history and was named a second-team NCBWA All-American earlier this week. The junior second baseman won the Triple Crown with his league statistics, leading the SEC with a .429 batting average, 20 home runs and 41 RBIs in conference play while also leading the league with 57 hits and 123 walks. total. Moore was second in slugging percentage (.925) and fifth in runs scored (37).
- Entering play this weekend, Moore ranks second in the nation with 101 hits and ranks top 25 nationally in home runs (4th – 32), runs scored (18th – 75), slugging percentage (16th – .796) and total goals (2nd – 214).
- The New York native ranks in the top 10 in UT’s single-season annals in several categories, including first in home runs (32), second in total bases (214), third in hits extra-base (49), fifth in hits (101), sixth in runs (75), seventh in slugging percentage (.796) and tied for eighth in RBIs (71).
- Moore is just the fourth player in UT history to reach the 100 hit mark in a season, joining program legends Chris Burke (2000 and 2001), Jeff Pickler (1998) and Todd Helton ( 1995).
- Tennessee is the most prolific home run team in the country since the start of the 2021 season, leading all NCAA Division I programs with 554 home runs during that span. Over the previous decade (2010-2020), the Volunteers totaled just 376 home runs.
- UT has won 60 of its 67 games this season with a program single-season record 173 total, which leads the nation and is the second-highest total in NCAA Division I history (1997 LSU – 188).
- The Vols’ 12 grand slams are tied for the second most in a single season in NCAA history (most in the BBCOR bat era) and the most ever by a team in the DRY. The NCAA single-season record is 14 by Arizona State in 2003 (68 games). Nine different players have hit a grand slam for the Vols this season.
- The Vols’ bullpen played a major role in the team’s overall success this season, posting a 39-6 record while tying UT’s single-season mark for saves with 18. UT’s bullpen has a combined 3.42 ERA while racking up 377 strikeouts compared to just 114 walks in 321.0 innings of work.
- In the month of May, UT’s bullpen combined to post a 10-0 record with seven saves and a 2.37 ERA in 91.0 innings with 119 strikeouts and just 24 walks while holding opposing hitters to a .220 batting average.
- During the NCAA Knoxville Regional, the bullpen earned wins in all three games and posted a 1.96 ERA in 18.1 innings pitched while holding opposing hitters to a .212 batting average.