The 2024 Tennessee Volunteers baseball team represented the University of Tennessee in the 2024 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Volunteers played their home games at Lindsey Nelson Stadium.
The Volunteers won the College World Series, defeating the Texas A&M Aggies in the championship series. In addition to winning the first national championship in program history, Tennessee tied the NCAA record for most wins in a season (60). They were the first number one seed to win the College World Series since 1999 and the first team to win 60 games since 1989. Tennessee also became the first SEC team in history to win 60 games in a season, and the first team in college baseball history with 5 players to record 20+ home runs in a single season. Tennessee won the SEC East, the SEC regular season title, the SEC Tournament title, a regional title, and a super regional title. The Volunteers would go 5-1 in Omaha by recording wins over Florida State (2), North Carolina (1), and Texas A&M (2). The team is widely considered one of the greatest college baseball teams of all time.
Previous season The Volunteers finished 44–22, 16–14 in the SEC to finish in fourth place in the East division. They won the 2023 Clemson Regional and finished 3–0. The Vols then played Southern Mississippi in the Hattiesburg Super Regional, winning 2–1 in the three-game series. At the College World Series they went 1–2.
Preseason Preseason SEC awards and honors The Vols had three players named to SEC preseason teams.
Preseason All-SEC First Team Player No. Position Class Drew Beam 32 SP Junior
Preseason All-SEC Second Team Player No. Position Class Christian Moore 1 2B Junior Billy Amick 11 3B Junior
Coaches poll The SEC baseball coaches' poll was released on February 8, 2024. Tennessee was picked to finish second in the SEC Eastern division.
SEC East Coaches' Poll 1 Florida 2 Tennessee 75 (2) 3 Vanderbilt 73 (1) 4 South Carolina 50 5 Kentucky 44 6 Georgia 36 7 Missouri 19
Personnel Roster
Coaching staff 2023 Tennessee Volunteers coaching staff Name Position Seasons atTennessee Tony Vitello Head coach 7 Frank Anderson Assistant Coach/Pitching 7 Josh Elander Assistant Coach/Recruiting Coordinator 7 Richard Jackson Assistant Coach 5 Luke Bonfield Director of Player Development 5 Parker Serrano Student Assistant Coach 1 Quentin Eberhardt Director of Baseball Sports Performance 7
Offseason Signing Day Recruits The following players signed National Letter of Intents to play for Tennessee in 2024. Pitchers Derek Schaefer Cave Creek, Arizona Cactus Shadows Dylan Loy Pigeon Forge, Tennessee Pigeon Forge Luke Payne Gallatin, Tennessee Goodpasture Christian School Matthew Dallas Memphis, Tennessee Briarcrest Christian School Brayden Sharp The Woodlands, Texas The Woodlands Hitters Ariel Antigua West Palm Beach, Florida Trinity Christian Academy (FL) Dean Curley La Verne, California Northview (CA) Stone Lawless Huntsville, Alabama Huntsville (AL) Blake Grimmer Spring Lake, Michigan St. Mary's Preparatory Hunter High Crieve Hall, Nashville, Tennessee Lipscomb Academy Camden Bates Washington, Oklahoma Washington (OK)
2023 MLB draft
#1 #9 Chase Dollander RHP Colorado Rockies #4 #117 Maui Ahuna SS San Francisco Giants #5 #146 Andrew Lindsey RHP Miami Marlins #7 #202 Seth Halvorsen RHP Colorado Rockies #11 #319 Jared Dickey U Kansas City Royals #14 #414 Zach Joyce RHP Los Angeles Angels #14 #415 Jake Fitzgibbons LHP Arizona Diamondbacks #17 #516 Bryce Jenkins RHP New York Mets
Schedule and results
! style="" | Regular season (46-10)
! colspan=12 style="padding-left:4em;background:#FF8200; color:white" | Shriners Children's College Showdown |- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc" | February 16 || vs No. 18 Texas Tech* || No. 5 || Globe Life FieldArlington, Texas || W 6-2 || AJ Causey (1-0) || Bryson Thacker (0-1) || None || FloBaseball || 10,992 || 1-0 || — |- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc" | February 17 || vs * || No. 5 || Globe Life FieldArlington, Texas || L 1-5 || R. Lambert (1-0) || Aaron Combs (0-1) || None || FloBaseball || 13,991 || 1-1 || — |- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc" | February 18 || vs * || No. 5 || Globe Life FieldArlington, Texas || W 11-5 || Nate Snead (1-0) || Andrade (0-1) || None || FloBaseball || 10,977 || 2-1 || — |- ! colspan=12 style="padding-left:4em;background:#FF8200; color:white" | |- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc" | February 20 || vs * || No. 7 || Lindsey Nelson StadiumKnoxville, Tennessee || W 3-2 || Austin Hunley (1-0) || Jacob Williams (0-1) || None || SECN+ || 4,699 || 3-1 || — |- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc" | February 21 || vs * || No. 7 || Lindsey Nelson StadiumKnoxville, Tennessee || W 16-0 || Dylan Loy (1-0) || Derek McCarley (0-1) || None || SECN+ || 5,020 || 4-1 || — |- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc" | February 23 || vs * || No. 7 || Lindsey Nelson StadiumKnoxville, Tennessee || W 8-5 || Chris Stamos (1-0) || Owen Birkman (0-1) || AJ Causey (1) || SECN+ || 4,629 || 5-1 || — |- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc" | February 24 || vs Albany* || No. 7 || Lindsey Nelson StadiumKnoxville, Tennessee || W 21-6 || Drew Beam (1-0) || Connor Eisenmann (0-1) || None || SECN+ || 5,127 || 6-1 || — |- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc" | February 25 || vs Albany* || No. 7 || Lindsey Nelson StandiumKnoxville, Tennessee || W 12-0 || Nate Snead (2-0) || Quinn Thomas (0-1) || None || SECN+ || 5,091 || 7-1 || — |- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc" | February 27 || vs * || No. 7 || Lindsey Nelson StadiumKnoxville, Tennessee || W 7-4 || Chris Stamos (2-0) || Dalton Olsovsky (0-2) || Nate Snead (1) || SECN+ || 4,138 || 8-1 || —
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc" | March 1 || vs Bowling Green* || No. 7 || Lindsey Nelson StadiumKnoxville, Tennessee || W 11-1 || AJ Causey (2-0) || DJ Newman (2-1) || None || SECN+ || 4,446 || 9-1 || — |- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc" | March 2 || vs Bowling Green* || No. 7 || Lindsey Nelson StadiumKnoxville, Tennessee || W 12-1 || Drew Beam (2-0) || Nic Good (0-1) || None || SECN+ || 5,343 || 10-1 || — |- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc" | March 3 || vs Bowling Green* || No. 7 || Lindsey Nelson StadiumKnoxville, Tennessee || W 16-6 || Kirby Connell (1-0) || Calvin Mitchell (1-2) || None || SECN+ || 5,385 || 11-1 || — |- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc" | March 5 || vs * || No. 7 || Lindsey Nelson StadiumKnoxville, Tennessee || W 15-5 || Nate Snead (3-0) || Owen Boererna (1-1) || None || SECN+ || 4,467 || 12-1 || — |- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc" | March 6 || vs * || No. 7 || Lindsey Nelson StadiumKnoxville, Tennessee || W 2-1 || Derek Schaefer (1-0) || Gavin Morris (0-1) || Kirby Connell (1) || SECN+ || 3,952 || 13-1 || — |- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc" | March 8 || vs * || No. 7 || Lindsey Nelson StadiumKnoxville, Tennessee || W 6-3 || AJ Causey (3-0) || Jack Crowder (0-1) || Marcus Phillips (1) || SECN+ || 5,083 || 14-1 || — |- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc" | March 9 || vs Illinois* || No. 7 || Lindsey Nelson StadiumKnoxville, Tennessee || W 24-1' || Drew Beam (3-0) || Logan Tabeling (0-2) || None || SECN+ || 4,938 || 15-1 || — |- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc" | March 10 || vs Illinois* || No. 7 || Lindsey Nelson StadiumKnoxville, Tennessee || W 8-3 || Nate Snead (4-0) || Joseph Glassey (0-1) || None || SECN+ || 5,188 || 16-1 || — |- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc" | March 12 || vs * || No. 5 || Lindsey Nelson StadiumKnoxville, Tennessee || W 17-2 || Chris Stamos (3-0) || Bradley Stewart (0-1) || None || SECN+ || 5,129 || 17-1 || — |- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc" | March 15 || vs || No. 5 || Sewell-Thomas StadiumTuscaloosa, Alabama || W 11-3 || AJ Causey (4-0) || Hess (3-1) || None || SECN+ || 3,801 || 18-1 || 1-0 |- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc" | March 16 || vs Alabama || No. 5 || Sewell-Thomas StadiumTuscaloosa, Alabama || L 3-6 || Farone (3-0) || Drew Beam (3-1) || None || SECN || 4,619 || 18-2 || 1-1 |- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc" | March 17 || vs Alabama || No. 5 || Sewell-Thomas StadiumTuscaloosa, Alabama || L 6-7 || Heiberger (2-0) || Nate Snead (4-1) || Moza (1) || SECN || 4,563 || 18-3 || 1-2 |- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc" | March 19 || vs * || No. 7 || Lindsey Nelson StadiumKnoxville, Tennessee || W 10-2 || Kirby Connell (2-0) || Jonathan Kelly (0-1) || None || SECN+ || 4,558 || 19-3 || — |- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc" | March 22 || vs No. 17 || No. 7 || Lindsey Nelson StadiumKnoxville, Tennessee || W 15-3 || AJ Causey (5-0) || Dennis Gunnar (3-1) || None || SECN+ || 5,489 || 20-3 || 2-2 |- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc" | March 23 || vs No. 17 Ole Miss || No. 7 || Lindsey Nelson StadiumKnoxville, Tennessee || L 5-8 || Nichols Mason (3-0) || AJ Russell (0-1) || Connor Spencer (5) || SECN+ || 5,585 || 20-4 || 2-3 |- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc" | March 24 || vs No. 17 Ole Miss || No. 7 || Lindsey Nelson StadiumKnoxville, Tennessee || W 15-4 || Nate Snead (5-1) || Saunier Grayson (3-3) || None || SECN+ || 5,677 || 21-4 || 3-3 |- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc" | March 26 || vs * || No. 5 || Lindsey Nelson StadiumKnxville, Tennessee || W 11-1 || Derek Schaefer (2-0) || Matt Gelorme (0-1) || None || SECN+ || 4,992 || 22-4 || — |- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc" | March 29 || vs No. 22 Georgia || No. 5 || Lindsey Nelson StadiumKnoxville, Tennessee || L 2-16 || Charlie Goldstein (4-0) || AJ Causey (5-1) || None || SECN+ || 5,575 || 22-5 || 3-4 |- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc" | March 30 || vs No. 22 Georgia || No. 5 || Lindsey Nelson StadiumKnoxville, Tennessee || W 16-11 || Kirby Connell (3-0) || Kolten Smith (2-2) || None || SECN || 5,677 || 23-5 || 4-4 |- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc" | March 31 || vs No. 22 Georgia || No. 5 || Lindsey Nelson StadiumKonxville, Tennessee || W 7-0 || Zander Sechrist (1-0) || Christian Mracna (3-2) || Nate Snead (2) || SECN || 5,006 || 24-5 || 5-4
|- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc" | April 5 || vs Auburn || No. 4 || Plainsman ParkAuburn, Alabama || L 5-9 || Carson Myers (2-2) || AJ Causey (5-2) || John Armstrong (2) || SECN+ || 5,119 || 25-6 || 5-5 |- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc" | April 6 || vs Auburn || No. 4 || Plainsman ParkAuburn, Alabama || W 12-2 || Drew Beam (4-1) || Connor McBride (3-2) || None || SECN+ || 5,566 || 25-6 || 6-5 |- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc" | April 7 || vs Auburn || No, 4 || Plainsman ParkAuburn, Alabama || W 19-5 || Nate Snead (6-1) || Will Cannon (0-1) || None || SECN+ || 4,468 || 26-6 || 7-5 |- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc" | April 9 || vs * || No. 4 || Lindsey Nelson StadiumKnoxville, Tennessee || W 20-2 || JJ Garcia (1-0) || Roman Sorrell (0-4) || None || SECN+ || 4,805 || 27-6 || — |- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc" | April 12 || vs No, 25 LSU || No. 4 || Lindsey Nelson StadiumKnoxville, Tennessee || W 6-3 || AJ Causey (6-2) || Jump Gage (2-1) || Kirby Connell (2) || ESPNU || 5,901 || 28-6 || 8-5 |- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc" | April 13 || vs No. 25 LSU || No. 4 || Lindsey Nelson StadiumKnoxville, Tennessee || W 3-1 || Drew Beam (5-1) || Luke Holman (6-2) || Nate Snead (3) || SECN || 6,155 || 29-6 || 9-5 |- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc" | April 14 || vs No. 25 LSU || No. 4 || Lindsey Nelson StadiumKnoxville, Tennessee || W 8-4 || Andrew Behnke (1-0) || Aiden Moffett (0-1) || Aaron Combs (1) || SECN || 6,092 || 30-6 || 10-5 |- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc" | April 16 || vs * || No. 2 || Lindsey Nelson StadiumKnoxville, Tennessee || W 20-5 || Dallas Matthew (1-0) || Cooper Hellman (1-3) || None || SECN+ || 4,617 || 31-6 || — |- align="center" bgcolor="#ffcccc" | April 16 || at No. 3 Kentucky || No. 2 || Kentucky Proud ParkLexington, Kentucky || L 3-5 || Travis Smith (3-2) || AJ Causey (6-3) || Johnny Hummel (5) || SECN+ || 6,922 || 31-7 || 10-6 |- align="center" bgcolor="#ccffcc" | April 17 || at No. 3 Kentucky || No. 2 || Kentucky Proud ParkLexington, Kentucky || W 9-4 || Aaron Combs (1-1) || Dominic Niman (7-3) || None || SECN+ || 7,304 || 32-7 || 11-6