The Tennessee Volunteers baseball team are the defending national champions after defeating Texas A&M in Game 3 of the College World Series last June. This marked the first time in school history that the baseball program won a national championship.

Tennessee baseball threw the program's first no-hitter since 2002 on Friday in the series opener against St. Bonaventure.

Liam Doyle is ready for Southeastern Conference play. Tennessee's junior left-hander made his fourth Friday start of the season and had his most dominant showing yet, coming within an out of pitching six scoreless and hitless innings in a 12-0 drubbing of St.