KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee softball was unveiled as the No. 3 overall seed in the NCAA Tournament and will be one of the host sites for the NCAA Regional round, announced during the college softball selection show on Sunday night.
The Lady Vols will host Dayton, Miami (OH) and Virginia at Sherri Parker Lee Stadium starting at 2:30 p.m., May 17. The teams will play a double-elimination format and the highest eight seeds that advance will also get to host the NCAA Super Regional.
Tennessee has hosted an NCAA Regional every year since the tournament switched to a national seeding format in 2005.
The Lady Vols made it through the NCAA Regional and NCAA Super Regional rounds last season and made their first Women's College World Series appearance since 2015 before the team was ultimately eliminated by Florida State.
The team is coming off back-to-back SEC regular season titles for the first time in program history, but the team goes into the NCAA Tournament coming off a loss to LSU in the SEC Tournament quarterfinals.
