Tennessee is seeded seventh overall in the NCAA softball tournament and took two out of three games from top-seeded Alabama late last month.
Then again, Tennessee was quickly bounced by Ole Miss at last week’s Southeastern Conference tournament in Lexington, Kentucky, with the 4-1 setback marking the third time in four opportunities the Lady Volunteers lost to a team that finished 13th in the league. They also dropped their regular-season finale 4-3 to Missouri, which didn’t even make the NCAA field.
In other words, who knows what to expect from Karen Weekly’s squad in the days ahead?
“We need to be grateful that we’re one of the 64 teams that still gets to play,” Weekly said earlier this week in a press conference. “That’s a huge deal, because a lot of people have already packed up to go home. The 64 teams who are in this playoff are in it because they’re good.
“The game doesn’t know who’s supposed to win, and the game doesn’t care.”