Tennessee won its first national championship in its seventh appearance at the Men’s College World Series on June 24. It was UT baseball’s first appearance in the CWS Finals since 1951 when it finished as the runner-up to Oklahoma.
“No better team to win for the University of Tennessee than a bunch of guys who were truly the definition of a team,” Tony Vitellosaid. “And no better play for our program to, I think, be the winning run on that slide, a guy (Hunter Ensley) that’s just built with a ton of grit. And his teammates follow his leadership. And it’s a great example of how this group got things done.”
Tennessee baseball became the first No. 1 overall seed in the NCAA Tournament to win the national championship since Miami did so in 1999. UT also became the first SEC team to reach the 60-win mark in a single season and just the fourth conference team to win the SEC regular season title, SEC Tournament title and the NCAA Men’s College World Series in the same year.
