KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – No. 20/23 Tennessee is headed to Chapel Hill, North Carolina for its 16th appearance in the NCAA Baseball Tournament, which is slated to begin this Friday.
The Volunteers are making their seventh straight trip to an NCAA Regional, extending a program-record streak that began at the 2019 NCAA Chapel Hill Regional.
UT will be the No. 2 seed in this year’s Chapel Hill Regional hosted by the No. 5 national seed North Carolina. Joining the Vols and Tar Heels will be No. 3 seed East Carolina (American Conference Champion) and No. 4 seed VCU (Atlantic 10 Champion).
Tennessee will open regional play against the No. 3 seed Pirates on Friday at noon ET on ESPNU.
The Vols enter this year’s tournament with a 38-20 overall record and 15-15 mark in the SEC, marking the sixth consecutive season that they have finished with a .500 or better record in conference play.
UT will look to continue its current run of success in the postseason after having won five NCAA Regional Championships in a row dating back to 2021. During that stretch, the Big Orange have lost just once in regional play and boast an impressive 15-1 record.
Since the NCAA Tournament moved to a regional format in 1975, Tennessee is 36-14 all-time in the regional round. During the tournament’s current four-team regional format that began in 1999, the Orange and White are 24-6 with seventh regional titles (2001, 2005, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025).
In order for the Vols to extend their streak and win their sixth straight regional, they will have to do it away from Knoxville for just the second time in program history and join the 2023 squad that won the NCAA Clemson Regional before eventually advancing to Omaha after topping Southern Miss in the NCAA Hattiesburg Super Regional.
Should Tennessee advance out of the Chapel Hill Regional, it would play the winner of the College Station Regional hosted by No. 12 national seed Texas A&M.
UT was one of an NCAA-leading 12 teams from the SEC to make the field, including seven regional hosts.
Ticket Info
Ticket info for the Chapel Hill Regional can be found on North Carolina’s official athletics website by clicking HERE.
NCAA Chapel Hill Regional Schedule
A full schedule for the weekend can be found below. Game times and TV designations will be updated as they become available and are always subject to change.
Friday, May 29
Game 1 – [2] Tennessee vs. [3] East Carolina, 12 p.m. ET (ESPNU)
Game 2 – [1] North Carolina vs. [4] VCU, 5 p.m. ET (ESPN+)
Saturday, May 30
Game 3 – Loser of Game 1 vs. Loser of Game 2, TBD (TBD)
Game 4 – Winner of Game 1 vs. Winner of Game 2, TBD (TBD)
Sunday, May 31
Game 5 – Winner of Game 3 vs. Loser of Game 4, TBD (TBD)
Game 6 – Winner of Game 5 vs. Winner of Game 4, TBD (TBD)
Monday, June 1
Game 7 (if necessary) – Winner of Game 6 vs. Loser of Game 6, TBD (TBD)
