The Tennessee Lady Vols are making history on a daily basis.
After sweeping the Southeastern Conference’s regular season and tournament softball championships for the first time in program history with Saturday afternoon’s 3-1 downing of South Carolina in the tourney title game at Fayetteville, Arkansas, the Lady Vols earned the NCAA tournament’s No. 4 overall seed Sunday night.
Tennessee has been a top-16 national seed every year since the seeding system for the 64-team field began in 2005, but the Lady Vols have never been as high as fourth.
“It was an exciting weekend, and I’m just so proud of them and what they’ve been able to accomplish,” Tennessee coach Karen Weekly said on ESPN2. “Tonight was exciting, and it always is with the selection show. We left here tonight and said, ‘OK, celebrate until midnight, and then tomorrow morning we get back to work.’
“I know they’ll be ready to do that, because they’ve done it all year long.”