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.
NCAA REGIONAL CENTRAL PAGE
For the most up-to-date scores, links, team info and other gameday information such as parking and tickets, visiting the
NCAA Knoxville Regional Central Page and the
Tennessee Baseball Gameday Information Page.
NCAA KNOXVILLE REGIONAL SCHEDULE
Friday, May 30
Game 1 – [2] Wake Forest vs. [3] Cincinnati | 1 p.m. ET |
Watch (ESPN+) |
Live Stats
Game 2 – [1] Tennessee vs. [4] Miami (OH) | 6 p.m. ET |
Watch (ESPNU) |
Listen (Vol Network) |
Live Stats
Saturday, May 31
Game 3 – Loser of Game 1 vs. Loser of Game 2 | Noon ET
Game 4 – Winner of Game 1 vs. Winner of Game 2 | 6 p.m. ET
Sunday, June 1
Game 5 – Winner of Game 3 vs. Loser of Game 4 | Noon ET
Game 6 – Winner of Game 5 vs. Winner of Game 4 | 6 p.m. ET
Monday, June 2
Game 7 (if necessary) – Winner of Game 6 vs. Loser of Game 6 | TBD
TICKET INFO
All Tennessee baseball season-ticket holders were awarded the opportunity to purchase postseason tickets for all games taking place at home. Season tickets were sold out for the 2025 season.
A limited number of single-session standing room only tickets will be sold to the general public at the Lindsey Nelson Stadium ticket window starting 90 minutes prior to first pitch of each session. In addition, the first 500 students will receive free admission into Lindsey Nelson Stadium for all postseason contests.
Tickets can also be purchased on the secondary market through
Ticketmaster.
PARKING INFORMATION & ROAD CLOSURES
Upon your arrival to campus, please be advised that vehicle traffic is closed for Pat Head Summitt St. Additionally, Todd Helton Dr. will be closed for all regional games on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday (if necessary). This closure will be in place from the intersection of Todd Helton Dr. and Volunteer Blvd. to the intersection of Chamique Holdsclaw Dr. and Lake Loudoun Blvd.
FRIDAY, MAY 30 ONLY: Due to other events on campus and inside of the Food City Center, fans are encouraged to use the
FREE campus shuttles to and from the Tennessee Agriculture campus that will be available for baseball fans planning to attend Friday's games. Pickup and drop-off will be located in front of the G16 parking garage just off of Volunteer Blvd. and directly in front of Lindsey Nelson Stadium.
Public parking for baseball fans that are planning to attend Friday's games is located in campus lots
G16,
C22, as well as
CC4,
S65/66, and
S67 on the Ag campus on a first-come, first-serve basis. Parking along the street in restricted spaces or utilizing other campus parking lots not listed above as
FREE parking are subject to fines or towing.
REMAINING REGIONAL GAME DAY PARKING (Saturday/Sunday/Monday): Public parking for baseball fans that are planning to attend games on Saturday, Sunday and Monday (if necessary) is located in campus lots
G16,
G3, G4, G5-30, S23, C22, and
G10 on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Parking in campus lots
C1 and
GF1-4 are available only for permit holders all weekend long. To view the Knoxville Regional interactive parking map,
CLICK HERE and select the corresponding 2025 NCAA Baseball Regionals tab.
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 Doyle is 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 Fischer has 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.