2025 SEC Baseball Tournament: Saturday semifinal schedule changed due to inclement weather

The SEC Tournament semifinals matchup between 8-seed Tennessee and 4-seed Vanderbilt has been rescheduled to start at 11 a.m. ET on Saturday due to forecasted inclement weather, per Volquest’s Eric Cain. The Volunteers and Commodores were initially scheduled to play at 1 p.m. ET on Saturday.

There is an 80% probability of rain and 48% chance of thunderstorms in Hoover, Alabama, on Saturday, per AccuWeather. Vanderbilt won two games in the Commodores and Volunteers’ three-game series earlier this season.

In total, Vanderbilt outscored Tennessee 19-14 in the series. Nonetheless, the Volunteers are heating up at the perfect time of the year. On Thursday, Tennessee defeated 2-seed Texas 7-5 in 12 innings. After the game, Vols head coach Tony Vitello pulled back the curtain on his team’s mindset.

“This team is not defending but pursuing,” Vitello said. “… I’m getting older, but I think I’m young enough and around these guys, I think pursuing is just, again, to get better and come to the park every day. We really have not played our best baseball. And again, if you were at the park the first four innings you probably wanted me fired.

“I don’t know that we have found our best ‘Who goes where’ in the bullpen and some other things, or just our best brand of baseball. They’re making progress and the scoreboard may not always show that, but that’s what their pursuit is and there has not been a lot of talk about other stuff.”

Of course, Vanderbilt won’t be easy to topple. The Commodores handily defeated Oklahoma 6-1 on Thursday to advance to the semifinals. Despite defeating the Volunteers the last time they played them, the Commodores aren’t overlooking Tennessee.

“Going off the last time we played them, just keeping the emotions intact,” Vanderbilt head coach Tim Corbin said when asked about his team’s approach to Tennessee. “We know what kind of game it’s going to be. It’s always going to be a good game with those guys.

“Just staying within ourselves and not trying to let certain situations get the best of us or let emotions kind of get too high. I think we just playing the ball that we’re playing, pitchers giving us innings and the hitters are banging like they are, I know we have a pretty good chance.”

After Tennessee and Vanderbilt play tomorrow, the winner of Ole Miss–Arkansas will square off against the winner of LSU–Texas A&M at 2:30 p.m. ET. The SEC Tournament championship game will take place on Sunday at 3 p.m. ET.