Tennessee baseball is facing Vanderbilt in the SEC Tournament semifinals for the second straight season at Hoover Met.

The Commodores mustered eight hits and were aggressive on the base paths, winning their opening game in Hoover with ease.

Chief Meteorologist Dave Nussbaum was live from the SEC Baseball Tournament with your gameday forecast. Friday will be mostly sunny and a tad cooler with low humidity. Scattered strong storms return for Memorial Day Weekend and next week.

Vanderbilt Commodores baseball vs Oklahoma Sooners in SEC tournament quarterfinals on May 22, 2025, at Hoover Met Stadium in Hoover, Alabama

The Commodores new status at the top of latest RPI rankings is great, but that fortune could quickly change in the SEC Tournament.

The change means the top four seeds will go to the four highest-ranked teams regardless of their finish within the conference.

Let’s pretend. It’s January of 2028. Emmy winner Nick Saban is bored. His post-coaching life was fun at first, but playing Pat McAfee’s straight man on ESPN and serving on the President’s Commission on College Sports got old in a hurry. The man who spent his life as part of a team misses the bond that can’t be matched on a TV set or in a boardroom.

It was undoubtedly a successful first year in the SEC for the No. 2 Texas Longhorns (42-11, 22-8). Coming on strong in their debut campaign, they took care of b