Tennessee advances to 3rd straight Sweet 16 with win over UCLA
The Volunteers (29-7) will play either sixth-seeded Illinois or No. 3 seed Kentucky, who play Sunday in Milwaukee.
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The Volunteers (29-7) will play either sixth-seeded Illinois or No. 3 seed Kentucky, who play Sunday in Milwaukee.
Tennessee will play either UCLA or Utah State on Saturday in the Midwest Region as they try to reach a third straight Sweet 16.
Walter Clayton Jr. scored 22 points and fourth-ranked Florida won its fifth Southeastern Conference Tournament title and first since 2014 Sunday, beating the No. 8 Tennessee Volunteers 86-77.
Tennessee will play fourth-ranked Florida Sunday for the tournament title.
The Vols quarterback threw for 209 yards and four touchdowns to lead No. 10 Tennessee to a victory against UTEP on Saturday in Knoxville.
Eighth-ranked Volunteers trailed 10-0 in the third quarter but win in overtime on Dylan Sampson’s 1-yard run.
The loss was the first in the regular season in over a year for the Tigers. Memphis’ last loss in the regular season was on Aug. 27, 2023, at Alabama.
The Volunteers — with the highest win total in the country — finished 13 for 39 at the plate and drew 11 walks.
Christian Moore hit a leadoff homer, Dylan Dreiling went deep for the third time in three games and Tennessee won its first national championship in baseball with a 6-5 victory over Texas A&M in Game 3 of the College World Series finals.
The Vols, the nation’s most prolific home-run hitting team in three decades, fell to the Aggies in the College World Series finals opener Saturday night.
Tennessee lost the finals opener Saturday, but hasn’t dropped consecutive games since March 16-17 at Alabama. They hope to become the first No. 1 national seed to win the national title since Miami in 1999.
The 1997 LSU Tigers slugged 188 home runs in 70 games. No team had come close to approaching 188 until this year’s Volunteers, who have 178 in 70 games heading into Game 1 of the best-of-three College World Series finals against Texas A&M.
The Volunteers will play another SEC team, Texas A&M, in the three-game championship series beginning Saturday.
Dalton Knecht has always carried a chip on his shoulder throughout his multi-school basketball journey. Feeling overlooked has powered him along his Northeastern Junior College, Northern Colorado and Tennessee stops.
The time of the game has not been set but a date has been scheduled.
Dylan Dreiling’s single into the left-center gap drove in the go-ahead run in the bottom of the ninth inning as Tennessee rallied to beat Florida State 12-11, capping a night when Christian Moore became the first player in 68 years to hit for the cycle at the College World Series.
Kavares Tears and Reese Chapman homered, Drew Beam limited North Carolina to one hit over five shutout innings, and Tennessee took control of its bracket at the College World Series with a 6-1 win.
The College World Series opens Friday with North Carolina playing Virginia and Florida State facing Tennessee in Bracket 1.
The CWS opens Friday, and for the first time since the event expanded to eight teams in 1950, only two conferences will be represented on the college game’s biggest stage.
Tennessee (55-12) advances to the College World Series for the second straight season and seventh time overall.
Kip Fougerousse, Cal McInnis and Brendan Hord each hit a home run to help Evansville beat No. 1 national-seed Tennessee 10-8 to avoid elimination at the best-of-three Knoxville Super Regional.
The Vols are trying to slug their way to two more victories to reach a third College World Series in four years and second straight.
The best-of-three super regionals open Friday and Saturday. The eight winners advance to the College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska, beginning June 14.
No. 1 overall seed Tennessee will play Indiana Saturday at 6 p.m. CT in Knoxville.
Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin said college football is awkwardly stuck between two worlds: Trending toward professionalism but still rooted in a model tied to higher education.
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