Tennessee baseball enters the final regular season series with a chance to claim a shared or outright SEC title.

The Vols need to sweep South Carolina in a series that begins Thursday and hope Kentucky loses at least once against Vanderbilt. Tennessee enters the weekend a game behind Kentucky with Arkansas also a game behind.

UT has won eight SEC series in a row after the opening series loss to Alabama. The Gamecocks (33-18, 13-14 SEC) are comfortably in the NCAA Tournament field but could push to be a regional host with a strong finish.

Here’s everything you need to know about Tennessee’s series vs. South Carolina, including time, TV and streaming info and more:

What channel is Tennessee baseball vs. South Carolina today?

• Streaming channel for all three games: SEC Network+

The Tennessee-South Carolina baseball series will be streamed on SEC Network+. Those who subscribe to the SEC Network can access SEC Network+ via the ESPN app.

Tennessee baseball vs. South Carolina start times

• Thursday’s game time: 6:30 p.m. ET
• Friday’s game time: 6:30 p.m. ET
• Saturday’s game time: 1 p.m. ET

The Tennessee-South Carolina baseball series will begin with Thursday’s game at 6:30 p.m. ET inside Lindsey Nelson Stadium.

Tennessee baseball SEC schedule 2024

Record: 43-10 (19-8 SEC)

• March 15: at Alabama, W 11-3
• March 16: at Alabama, L 6-3
• March 17: at Alabama, L 7-6
• March 22: Ole Miss, W 15-3 in seven innings
• March 23: Ole Miss, L 8-5
• March 24: Ole Miss, W 15-4 in seven innings
• March 29: Georgia, L 16-2 in seven innings
• March 30: Georgia, W 16-11
• March 31: Georgia, W 7-0
• April 5: at Auburn, L 9-5
• April 6: at Auburn, W 12-2 in seven innings
• April 7: at Auburn, W 19-5 in seven innings
• April 12: LSU, W 6-3
• April 13: LSU, W 3-1
• April 14: LSU, W 8-4
• April 19: at Kentucky, L 5-3
• April 20: at Kentucky, W 9-4
• April 21: at Kentucky, W 13-11
• April 25: Missouri, W 10-1
• April 26: Missouri, W 3-2
• April 27: Missouri, W 3-2
• May 3: at Florida, W 6-2
• May 3: at Florida, L 4-3
• May 4: at Florida, W 16-3
• May 10: at Vanderbilt, W 8-4
• May 11: at Vanderbilt, W 7-6
• May 12: at Vanderbilt, L 3-0
• May 16: South Carolina, 6:30 p.m. on SEC Network+
• May 17: South Carolina, 6:30 p.m. on SEC Network+
• May 18: South Carolina, 1 p.m. on SEC Network+
• May 21-26: SEC Baseball Tournament in Hoover, Alabama

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After suffering a brutal series sweep at the hands of the Georgia Bulldogs this past weekend, the South Carolina Gamecocks are looking to prevent things from snowballing in their regular series finale against the No. 1 Tennessee Volunteers, who have won eight straight series dating back to late March. The Vols have won each of the last four series against the Gamecocks.

The biggest reason Tennessee has had the significant success they’ve seen this season is their batting lineup. Looking at just league play, the Volunteers rank in the Top 4 in the SEC in batting average, hits, slugging percentage, on-base percentage, home runs, and RBIs. Three Tennessee batters have hit eight homers or more in SEC play, with Christian Moore hitting a ridiculous 17 bombs to go along with a .413 batting average and 1.325 OPS. He should get the Charlie Condon treatment beyond the first inning.

Where Carolina could make hay in this series is against the Volunteers’ pitching staff. The Volunteers have an interesting contrast on their stat sheet, as while they have the least amount of walks given up in conference play, they have the fifth-worst mark in the league when it comes to the batting average they allow. This indicates that Tennessee pounds the strike zone and challenges hitters. Based on these numbers, with the Gamecocks in ‘wounded animal mode,’ they need to be aggressive at the plate to take some of the weight off their pitchers and give themselves a better shot of pulling off the upset.

Thursday
South Carolina Ty Good (5th RHP) 5-1, 3.21 ERA, 47.2 IP, 21 BB, 63 SO
Tennessee Chris Stamos (Gr. LHP) 3-0, 3.33 ERA, 24.1 IP, 12 BB, 27 SO

Friday
South Carolina TBA
Tennessee Drew Beam (Jr. RHP) 7-2, 3.75 ERA, 74.1 IP, 17 BB, 67 SO

Saturday
South Carolina TBA
Tennessee Zander Sechrist (Sr. LHP) 1-1, 4.57 ERA, 43.1 IP, 10 BB, 48 SO

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Nearly 7,000 independent artists entered this year’s Tiny Desk Contest, NPR Music’s annual search for the next great undiscovered artist. Earlier today, Morning Edition revealed the winner: a Sacramento producer, singer, rapper and multi-instrumentalist who performs as The Philharmonik. As he soaks in his big win and prepares to travel to NPR’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., to perform a Tiny Desk concert, songwriter Christian Gates joins Juana Summers to share the story behind his winning entry.

One of the requirements when submitting to the Tiny Desk Contest is that each video must feature a desk. (It shows the judges that artists are prepared to play behind the real Tiny Desk; plus, it’s fun.) Gates says that desks usually make him feel as if he’s deviating from his own path by working for someone else. Eventually, he decided he needed to work at his own desk.

In a YouTube comment on his video, Gates shouts out the Sacramento community, which helped him see this vision through when he said he didn’t have a single penny to his name.

Gates expands on this comment in his All Things Considered interview, sharing with Summers that he went through a dark and humbling time last year. While driving for Uber in order to make ends meet, he got into a bad car accident and could no longer work.

“I was really scrounging up money for change, to even do shows,” he says. “I had these big visions for shows where I wanted nine people playing with me — but I couldn’t afford it. And as the months went by it got progressively worse. And my other bills started to fall behind, too.”

Then, when the Tiny Desk Contest opened, he asked his community for a favor.

“I said, hey, I think we could do good in this Contest if we execute this vision — but I really need your guys’ help with this,” Gates explains. “And everybody, absolutely everybody, came through to help me with no hesitation.”

Gates says that since winning the Contest, it feels like his life has changed overnight.

“I’m glad that I went through the struggle, because 1715811069 this win feels so honest to me, to what I believe in. It’s a reflection of what I’ve worked for,” he shares. “So I’m eternally grateful for everything that I’ve gone through, good and bad.”

This summer, Gates and his eight-piece band will headline the 10-city Tiny Desk Contest On The Road tour. You can get tickets to see The Philharmonik, plus other local Contest entrants, at npr.org/tinydeskcontest.

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