Tennessee’s softball team set a program record last May by earning the No. 4 overall seed in the NCAA tournament.
It was a standard that lasted one year.
Karen Weekly’s Lady Vols have been pegged as the No. 3 seed in this spring’s 64-team field, trailing only outgoing Big 12 Conference and incoming Southeastern Conference members Texas and Oklahoma. The Lady Vols are 40-10 overall and have won two consecutive SEC regular-season championships, claiming this year’s crown by two games over Florida, the NCAA tournament’s No. 4 overall seed.
“I honestly didn’t know that,” Weekly said Sunday night in a news conference after the bracket was revealed. “I would have thought back when Monica (Abbott) was here that we might have gotten seeded higher. I am very proud of this program, and obviously I’ve invested a lot of years and a lot of my life into Lady Vols softball.
“Ultimately it’s all about the players. Every win we get is because the players go out there and win. They’re the ones who put it on the line every single day.”