The Official Miami (OH) @ Tennessee Knoxville Regional Game Thread (Fri. 5/30 7:06PM EDT ESPNU/ESPN+)

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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – The No. 14 national seed Tennessee Volunteers open their NCAA tournament postseason run in the Knoxville regional on Friday night at Lindsey Nelson Stadium.

The Vols are hosting postseason baseball for the fourth in the past five years and will kick things off against the No. 4 seed in the Knoxville regional, Miami (OH). The Redhawks won the MAC tournament last week to earn an automatic bid into the field.

Also participating in the Knoxville regional is No. 2 seed Wake Forest – which earned an at-large spot out of the ACC – and No. 3 seed Cincinnati – which also was an at-large selection out of the Big 12.

BROADCAST INFO​

TV/Stream: ESPN Family of Network / ESPN+

Talent: Mike Monaco (PxP) & Kyle Peterson (Analyst)

Radio: Vol Network (FM 99.1 / AM 990) | Tennessee Athletics App | UTSports.com | Varsity App

Talent: John Wilkerson & Redmond Walsh

NCAA TOURNAMENT HISTORY​

Prior Appearances: 14 (Most Recent: 2024)
Regional Record: 33-13 (.717)
Knoxville Regional Record: 23-5 (.821)
Super Regional Appearances (Record): 6 (11-4)
College World Series Appearances: 7 (1951, 1995, 2001, 2005, 2021, 2023, 2024)
National Championships: 1 (2024)

This will be Tennessee's 15th appearance in the NCAA tournament and its ninth time hosting a regional at Lindsey Nelson Stadium. The Vols have won all five of their regionals in Knoxville since the tournament switched to its current four-team regional format in 1999 and are unbeaten (12-0) in their last four home regionals. In those five prior home regionals (2001, 2005, 2021, 2023, 2024), UT has posted a 15-1 overall record and has gone on to advance to the College World Series in four of those five seasons.

NEED TO KNOW​

  • Tennessee will look to defend its 2024 National Championship and make it back to Omaha for the fourth time in five years. UT and Virginia are the only two programs to advance to the Men's College World Series in three of the last four years.
  • Tennessee is set to play in their sixth consecutive NCAA regional, marking the longest regional streak in program history, surpassing the five straight regional appearances it made from 1993-1997. The Vols have also advanced to four NCAA super regionals in a row, which is also the longest such streak in program history.
  • Tennessee has been the nation's most prolific home run hitting team since the start of the 2021 season, leading all NCAA Division I programs with 686 long balls during that span, 124 more than the next closest team (Florida - 562). In the previous decade before that (2010-2020), the Volunteers totaled just 376 home runs.
    • After finishing with the second most homers in NCAA history last year with 184, the Vols rank third nationally in round trippers this season with 122, marking their fourth straight year with 100-plus home runs.
    • UT is just the second SEC program to ever hit 100 or more home runs in four straight seasons, joining LSU, who did so from 1996-99.
  • Tennessee has been extremely successful against non-conference opponents since the start of the 2019 season, posting a 145-24 record in that span. Entering this weekend, the Vols are 25-1 against non-SEC teams this season.
  • Tennessee ace Liam Doyleis having an All-American caliber junior season for the Vols and was arguably the most dominant starting pitcher in the country throughout the regular season, positioning himself for a handful of national awards and honors.
    • Doyle was named the SEC Pitcher of the Year and is a semifinalist the Golden Spikes Award, the Dick Howser Trophy and the College Baseball Foundation National Pitcher of the Year.
    • For the season, Doyle boasts a 9-3 record and a 3.04 ERA in 16 appearances (15 starts) while ranking second nationally in strikeouts (142) and leading the country in strikeouts per nine innings (15.40). His 295 career strikeouts are tied for sixth among active Division I pitchers while his 13.66 strikeouts/nine innings ranks second.
  • Junior first baseman Andrew Fischerhas been an on-base machine for the Big Orange this season, leading the SEC with a 1.253 OPS, .500 on-base percentage and 58 walks. The first-team All-SEC selection is the only player in the conference to have reached base in every game this season (59 games). Dating back to his time at Ole Miss last season, Fischer has reached base safely in 62 consecutive contests.
    • The New Jersey native has also provided big-time power, leading the SEC and ranking tied for seventh nationally with 22 homers this season. Eleven of his homers came during conference play, which was tied for third in the league.
    • Fischer's 22 home runs are tied for the fifth most in UT single season history with Trey Lipscomb (2022) and Cody Hawn (2009). He needs one more to move into a tie for third and two more to move into a tie for second.

ON DECK​

Should Tennessee advance out of the Knoxville regional, it would take on the winner of the Fayetteville regional next weekend in a best-of-three super regional.
 
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They are THE MAC Champion!

We are a 8th place team coming off being run ruled by a bunch of candystripers
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Guessing was tongue in cheek but those Candy Boyz are the #1 overall seed. Threw up a lil in my mouth while typing that. Cringe!

We get hot and we can run the table.

At least we don't call ourselves the Vol Boys! 🤢
 
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Having some days off ain’t a bad thing, might give us some time to get healthier, a little time to get minds right. Overall, in more ways than one, been a tough stretch over the last half.

Here for it!

GBO!!!
 
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Go Vols!
 
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Back from a long Holiday weekend.

I have to be honest. I did not watch the Saturday game.
Vols were out of pitching and I did not want to watch us play a team with two starters left. I did not expect our offense to also take the day off however.

I believe the coaching staff got what they were looking for from the tourney. I actually believe the coaches got two big bonuses; those being Arvidson and AJ Russell performances.

After going slow, I believe AJ is really to drop into a weekend starter role
And Arvidson has now become the reliever that the Vols can lean on. Neither were not available for Saturday and it obviously showed.

I thought Dylan Loy would be the go-to-guy but he still has some room to grow.
Tanner Franklin has the skill but I think he still needs to get used to this level of competition.
Krenzel has nto been the same since missing time. I believe he will be at another level next season. He got knocked around pretty hard in both his games in only 8 batters faced.
Snead is clearly a talent but a lot of guys at this level can hit the fastball- even his.


I have told some friends this weekend may be a bloodbath of epic proportions as I believe a more than usual amount of host teams will not advance. There's a few hosts that traditionally have problems in this field.

(1) Vanderbilt
(2) Arkansas
(3) Clemson
(4) Southern Miss
(5) UCLA
(6) Oregon

There's also some lower seeds that have some really great talent from mid major leaguies

Northeastern
Dallas Baptist
Cal Poly
East Carolina
Cincinnati (not mid major but talented)
UTSA
ETSU
Columbia

I have not checked the Arkansas forums but I think they got a surprisingly tough region with Kansas and Creighton but a weak #4 seed (NDSU) makes up for it. The BigEast was a good league and CReighton won it. Kansas finished 2nd in Big12 but I thought they were the best team- especially at the end. They smoke WVU like a cheap cigar and cost the Mountaineers a region host bid. With NDSU has game 1, Van Horn may get cute with starters and get away with it.


With the Knoxville region, we win if we limit errors to one per game.

I like Liam on Saturday to give that blister one more day to heal. I assume it's still bothering him.
I start AJ in game 3. It's now or never. This is what he wanted and what the coaches were waiting to do. I think he's ready for 90-100 pitches.
I know this, should we play Cincinnati, I do not see how we can let Marcus pitch. I know he was better with base runners against Alabama but Bama was not a running team.

Long story short, far less talented teams than this Volunteer squad have won the College World Series. We are all spoiled with Tennessee's talent since 2000. We're still talented, we were bound take a step back from the uber-experienced and leadership-heavy 2024 team. No team will be happy to see "Tennessee" on their post season schedule
 
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fryeguy93 said:
Back from a long Holiday weekend.

I have to be honest. I did not watch the Saturday game.
Vols were out of pitching and I did not want to watch us play a team with two starters left. I did not expect our offense to also take the day off however.

I believe the coaching staff got what they were looking for from the tourney. I actually believe the coaches got two big bonuses; those being Arvidson and AJ Russell performances.

After going slow, I believe AJ is really to drop into a weekend starter role
And Arvidson has now become the reliever that the Vols can lean on. Neither were not available for Saturday and it obviously showed.

I thought Dylan Loy would be the go-to-guy but he still has some room to grow.
Tanner Franklin has the skill but I think he still needs to get used to this level of competition.
Krenzel has nto been the same since missing time. I believe he will be at another level next season. He got knocked around pretty hard in both his games in only 8 batters faced.
Snead is clearly a talent but a lot of guys at this level can hit the fastball- even his.


I have told some friends this weekend may be a bloodbath of epic proportions as I believe a more than usual amount of host teams will not advance. There's a few hosts that traditionally have problems in this field.

(1) Vanderbilt
(2) Arkansas
(3) Clemson
(4) Southern Miss
(5) UCLA
(6) Oregon

There's also some lower seeds that have some really great talent from mid major leaguies

Northeastern
Dallas Baptist
Cal Poly
East Carolina
Cincinnati (not mid major but talented)
UTSA
ETSU
Columbia

I have not checked the Arkansas forums but I think they got a surprisingly tough region with Kansas and Creighton but a weak #4 seed (NDSU) makes up for it. The BigEast was a good league and CReighton won it. Kansas finished 2nd in Big12 but I thought they were the best team- especially at the end. They smoke WVU like a cheap cigar and cost the Mountaineers a region host bid. With NDSU has game 1, Van Horn may get cute with starters and get away with it.


With the Knoxville region, we win if we limit errors to one per game.

I like Liam on Saturday to give that blister one more day to heal. I assume it's still bothering him.
I start AJ in game 3. It's now or never. This is what he wanted and what the coaches were waiting to do. I think he's ready for 90-100 pitches.
I know this, should we play Cincinnati, I do not see how we can let Marcus pitch. I know he was better with base runners against Alabama but Bama was not a running team.

Long story short, far less talented teams than this Volunteer squad have won the College World Series. We are all spoiled with Tennessee's talent since 2000. We're still talented, we were bound take a step back from the uber-experienced and leadership-heavy 2024 team. No team will be happy to see "Tennessee" on their post season schedule
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Pretty spot on, imo.
GBO!!
 
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fryeguy93 said:
Back from a long Holiday weekend.

I have to be honest. I did not watch the Saturday game.
Vols were out of pitching and I did not want to watch us play a team with two starters left. I did not expect our offense to also take the day off however.

I believe the coaching staff got what they were looking for from the tourney. I actually believe the coaches got two big bonuses; those being Arvidson and AJ Russell performances.

After going slow, I believe AJ is really to drop into a weekend starter role
And Arvidson has now become the reliever that the Vols can lean on. Neither were not available for Saturday and it obviously showed.

I thought Dylan Loy would be the go-to-guy but he still has some room to grow.
Tanner Franklin has the skill but I think he still needs to get used to this level of competition.
Krenzel has nto been the same since missing time. I believe he will be at another level next season. He got knocked around pretty hard in both his games in only 8 batters faced.
Snead is clearly a talent but a lot of guys at this level can hit the fastball- even his.


I have told some friends this weekend may be a bloodbath of epic proportions as I believe a more than usual amount of host teams will not advance. There's a few hosts that traditionally have problems in this field.

(1) Vanderbilt
(2) Arkansas
(3) Clemson
(4) Southern Miss
(5) UCLA
(6) Oregon

There's also some lower seeds that have some really great talent from mid major leaguies

Northeastern
Dallas Baptist
Cal Poly
East Carolina
Cincinnati (not mid major but talented)
UTSA
ETSU
Columbia

I have not checked the Arkansas forums but I think they got a surprisingly tough region with Kansas and Creighton but a weak #4 seed (NDSU) makes up for it. The BigEast was a good league and CReighton won it. Kansas finished 2nd in Big12 but I thought they were the best team- especially at the end. They smoke WVU like a cheap cigar and cost the Mountaineers a region host bid. With NDSU has game 1, Van Horn may get cute with starters and get away with it.


With the Knoxville region, we win if we limit errors to one per game.

I like Liam on Saturday to give that blister one more day to heal. I assume it's still bothering him.
I start AJ in game 3. It's now or never. This is what he wanted and what the coaches were waiting to do. I think he's ready for 90-100 pitches.
I know this, should we play Cincinnati, I do not see how we can let Marcus pitch. I know he was better with base runners against Alabama but Bama was not a running team.

Long story short, far less talented teams than this Volunteer squad have won the College World Series. We are all spoiled with Tennessee's talent since 2000. We're still talented, we were bound take a step back from the uber-experienced and leadership-heavy 2024 team. No team will be happy to see "Tennessee" on their post season schedule
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I got Northeastern taken the Tallahassee Regional...
 
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