Tennessee just needs two wins to reach Omaha and the College World Series for a second-straight seasons. And the No. 1 national seed Volunteers are big favorites to make it, facing a Cinderella in the form of Evansville.
While Tennessee likely would’ve been the favorite against most any team, facing a fourth seed from a regional is about as friendly a matchup as possible. Given the generally lopsided nature of the matchup, FanDuel is giving Tennessee big odds to win.
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NCAA Baseball Tournament Knoxville Super Regional Odds
Tennessee -800
Evansville +480
Tennessee has ridden to the top national seed behind a potent offense and dominant pitching. As a team, Tennessee leads the country with 159 home runs hit this season — a program record for a single season — and boasts a Top 10 scoring offense with 9.2 runs per game.
The Volunteers staff is also No. 3 nationally in earned run average, sitting at 3.80 for the season, the best mark of any of the 16 remaining teams entering super regionals.
Plus, by virtue of being the top seed, Tennessee will be hosting the Purple Aces in Knoxville for the best of three series with a trip to Omaha on the line.
It would take something special from Evansville to complete a second upset weekend, but they showed in the Greenville Regional that they’re perfectly capable of doing something utterly unexpected.
2024 NCAA Baseball Super Regionals Matchups
Knoxville Super Regional
(1) Tennessee vs. Evansville
Lexington Super Regional
(2) Kentucky vs. (15) Oregon State
College Station Super Regional
(3) Texas A&M vs. Oregon
Chapel Hill Super Regional
(4) North Carolina vs. West Virginia
Clemson Super Regional
(6) Clemson vs. Florida
Athens Super Regional
(7) Georgia vs. (10) NC State
Tallahassee Super Regional
(8) Florida State vs. UConn
Charlottesville Super Regional
(12) Virginia vs. Kansas State
Upsets plague lower national seeds
It didn’t take long for the action to heat up in the NCAA Regionals, with multiple national seeds going down in the opening round of action.
Arkansas was perhaps the most prominent top seed to go down, especially because of how it happened. The Razorbacks pummeled Southeast Missouri 17-9 in the opener of the regional before tripping up against Kansas State in a tight 7-6 contest and then falling to Southeast Missouri 6-3 in an elimination game just prior to the regional final.
But the Hogs were far from the only national seed to experience some heartbreak in the opening round, failing to reach the NCAA Super Regionals.
Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Arizona, UC Santa Barbara and East Carolina also all lost, leaving the field pretty wide open going forward.
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