Tennessee finds themselves back in a familiar place in latest college baseball tournament projections
The Vols could find themselves playing not terribly far from Knoxville to open tournament play.
Tennessee baseball took a big step forward last weekend in their quest to secure a place in the 2026 NCAA baseball tournament. The Vols took two out of three from the then-No. 4 Texas Longhorns, which gave Josh Elander’s team a big feather in the cap come Selection Monday.
But that big step forward might be putting them in a spot they were in not too long ago — in position to be a 2 seed at the host site of an ACC giant.
Baseball America and D1 Baseball put out their latest field of 64 projections, and Tennessee found themselves as a 2 seed at North Carolina and Georgia Tech, respectively.
Tennessee projected as a two seed in regions of ACC national seeds UNC and Georgia Tech in latest college baseball NCAA Tournament projecitons
If Tennessee at Georgia Tech looks familiar, it’s because that’s where the Vols were just a week ago in D1 Baseball’s bracket — except as a 3 seed rather than a 2. Clearly, the series win was enough to push Tennessee up from one of the top three seeds to one of the lower twos while staying relatively close to Knoxville.
And that’s how it appears things are being projected by the two major outlets at this point. North Carolina and Georgia Tech will both obviously host, and both will be national seeds absent something shocking over the next two weeks. With Tennessee on the 2/3 line, if the Vols end up as a lower-end two, then getting paired up regionally with a top national seed seems like a distinct possibility.
So, for Vol fans hoping to go see Tennessee play in the regionals without having to go too terribly far, particularly if Georgia Tech is the ultimately destination, then they could be in luck once the field is fully revealed on May 25.