With the NCAA releasing its baseball tournament field Monday every collegiate sport for the 2022-23 academic year has released its postseason bracket.
Tennessee sports teams found themselves competing in as many NCAA Tournaments as any other school, research from Football Scoop revealed Tuesday.
Football Scoop’s Zach Barnett went on a search for which schools were represented in the NCAA Tournaments for what he considered the “major sports.” Those sports included football, men’s basketball, baseball, women’s basketball, volleyball and softball.
Thirty one different teams made both the postseason in football and the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament with 28 being from the FBS and three from the FCS.
Add baseball to the list and it gets dramatically cut to just 12 teams including SEC schools Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky and Tennessee.
Moving over to women’s sports the list gets cut to just seven schools when the NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament is included. Alabama and Tennessee are the only two SEC schools left in the mix once women’s basketball is included.
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But once volleyball is included Tennessee and Texas are the only schools that made all five NCAA Tournaments. Both teams made the NCAA Softball Tournament with Tennessee ironically eliminating Texas in the Knoxville Super Regional last weekend.
That’s where Football’s Scoop’s research stops but what if we keep pushing to find the true champion? Both Tennessee and Texas made the women’s soccer tournament, men’s and women’s tennis tournaments and men’s and women’s golf tournaments.
Tennessee and Texas each had extremely complete performances from across all team sports during the 2022-23 academic year.
The strong performances across all sports led to Tennessee repeating as the SEC All-Sports Champions. Tennessee was just the second school ever to win both the men’s and women’s championship in the same season.
Tennessee softball is looking to continue its fantastic season, the best of any Tennessee team this year, as it heads to the Women’s College World Series in Oklahoma City. The Tennessee baseball team is looking to make a run of its own to the College World Series when it opens NCAA Tournament play at the Clemson Regional Friday night.
