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Where Baseball America projects Tennessee in NCAA Baseball Tournament bracket

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Tennessee Baseball | Tennessee Athletics
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Baseball America currently projects Tennessee Baseball to host a regional in the NCAA Tournament, but the Vols are just barely holding on as a host as one of the top 16 seeds in the 64-team field. 

This week’s postseason projection from Baseball America has Tennessee as the 16th and final host seed, with No. 2 UTSA, No. 3 ETSU and No. 4 Tennessee Tech also playing in the Knoxville Regional. 

The other host seeds were No. 1 Texas, No. 2 LSU, No. 3 Auburn, No. 4 Georgia, No. 5 Arkansas, No. 6 Florida State, No. 7 Vanderbilt, No. 8 North Carolina, No. 9 Coastal Carolina, No. 10 Oregon, No. 11 UCLA, No. 12 Alabama, No. 13 Oregon State, No. 14 Clemson and No. 15 TCU.

Up Next: Tennessee at Arkansas, Friday, 8 p.m. ET, ESPN2

The No. 2 seeds were Dallas Baptist, Louisville, Northeastern, Miami, Southern Miss, West Virginia, Georgia Tech, Florida, North Carolina State, Duke, UC Irvine, Wake Forest, Kentucky, Ole Miss and Oklahoma, along with UTSA.

Tennessee (40-13, 15-12 SEC) starts the final series of the regular season at Arkansas (41-11, 18-9) on Thursday night (8 Eastern Time, ESPN2). Friday’s game is a 7:30 p.m. ET start on SEC Network+ and Saturday’s regular-season finale is a 3 p.m. ET start on SEC Network. 

The Vols have dropped four straight SEC series, losing two of three at home against Vanderbilt, Auburn and Kentucky and two of three at LSU. They won two of three at Ole Miss, after losing two of three against Texas A&M.

Where Vols are projected by On3, D1Baseball.com

D1Baseball.com dropped Tennessee to a No. 2 seed, sending the Vols on the road to West Virginia, where Virginia is the No. 3 seed and HolyCross is the No. 4 seed.

On3’s Field of 64 projections earlier this week had Tennessee as the No. 15 national seed, hosting No. 2 Dallas Baptist, No. 3 Kansas and No. 4 Tennessee Tech in the Knoxville Regional. 

“Tennessee is in serious danger of falling out of the hosting race,” On3’s Jonathan Wagner wrote, “though they hold on in this week’s Field of 64. The Vols are 39-13 overall, 15-12 in the SEC and No. 15 in RPI with a 10-8 Q1 record, but have now lost four series in a row and five of their last six, and if they can’t take their final series against Arkansas, will a team that’s lost six of their last seven series get the nod? 

“If they don’t Dallas Baptist is right on the cusp, and actually dropped out of the top 16 in this week’s projections.”

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