Texas A&M and Vanderbilt set to face off in SEC Baseball Tournament title

It’ll be a battle of the “underdogs” in the 2023 SEC Baseball Tournament championship.

Sunday’s title game, set for 3:00 p.m. EST on ESPN2, will feature the 10-seeded Texas A&M Aggies and the four-seeded Vanderbilt Commodores. Texas A&M advanced by beating two-seeded Arkansas (5-4) in the semifinals on Saturday afternoon before Vanderbilt outlasted top-seeded Florida (11-6) shortly after.

This will be the 12th time in school history that Vanderbilt has made the SEC Tournament championship, although the Commodores have only won the title three of those times (1980, 2007, and 2019). Meanwhile, Texas A&M will look to win just its second SEC championship since joining the league in 2013. The Aggies are the first-ever team seeded below eighth to make the conference title game.

Kentucky, which entered the field as the eight-seed, was knocked out of the tournament after the first day, falling to nine-seeded Alabama earlier this week by a final score of 4-0. The Wildcats are still a lock to make the NCAA Tournament though and will soon learn of its postseason fate. In D1 Baseball’s latest projections, Kentucky received the No. 13 seed, which would have the ‘Cats hosting a regional in Lexington for the first time since 2017.

The 16 regional sites for the tournament will be announced on Sunday night at 8:30 p.m. EST through social media (@NCAABaseball) and on the ESPN Bottom Line. A full release will be distributed by the NCAA and posted on NCAA.com. The entire tournament selections and pairings will be announced on the NCAA Baseball selection show on ESPN2 at 12:00 p.m. EST.