SEC baseball predictions: Tennessee and Vanderbilt could get hot at the perfect time
The Montgomery Advertiser’s Adam Cole makes his predictions for which team will win the 2025 SEC baseball tournament, highlighting Tennessee, Vanderbilt, LSU, Arkansas and more.
As the college baseball regular season closes, it’s clear the SEC is still the conference that wears the crown.
Ahead of this week’s SEC tournament, 11 of the conference’s 16 members are nationally ranked, and 13 teams are projected to make the NCAA tournament. Many of those programs, such as Arkansas and LSU, remained near the top of the SEC through much of the season, but it was newcomer Texas that won the conference title.
Each of them are represented in the USA TODAY Sports Network’s 2025 All-SEC team, which was voted on by a panel of nine writers who cover the league.
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Arkansas’ Wehiwa Aloy won SEC Player of the Year, leading the league’s best offense in batting average (.358), slugging (.677), hits (82), runs scored (72) and home runs. (18) Jim Schlossnagle, who took over at Texas after leading Texas A&M to last year’s Men’s College World Series championship, won SEC Coach of the Year.
Tennessee’s Liam Doyle, who was top two in the SEC in ERA, opponent batting average and strikeouts, won SEC Pitcher of the Year. Texas’ Dylan Volantis and Georgia’s Robbie Burnett were named SEC Freshman and Newcomer of the Year, respectively.
Doyle was one of just two unanimous selections to the All-SEC team, along with Mississippi State third baseman Ace Reese. Auburn, Tennessee and Texas were the lone SEC programs with multiple All-SEC players.
USA TODAY Sports Network’s 2025 SEC individual honors
- SEC Player of the Year: Wehiwa Aloy, Arkansas
- SEC Coach of the Year: Jim Schlossnagle, Texas
- SEC Pitcher of the Year: Liam Doyle, Tennessee
- SEC Freshman of the Year: Dylan Volantis, Texas
- SEC Newcomer of the Year: Robbie Burnett, Georgia
USA TODAY Sports Network’s 2025 All-SEC baseball team
- Catcher: Rylan Galvan, Texas
- First base: Andrew Fischer, Tennessee
- Second base: Chris Rembert, Auburn
- Shortstop: Wehiwa Aloy, Arkansas
- Third base: Ace Reese, Mississippi State*
- Outfield: Ike Irish, Auburn; Robbie Burnett, Georgia; Kade Snell, Alabama
- DH/Utility: Ryland Zaborowski, Georgia
- Starting pitcher: Liam Doyle, Tennessee*; Kade Anderson, LSU; Kyson Witherspoon, Oklahoma
- Relief pitcher: Dylan Volantis, Texas
*Unanimous selection
The 2025 All-SEC baseball team was selected by a panel of nine writers who cover the league for the USA TODAY Network: Adam Cole (Montgomery Advertiser), Aria Gerson (The Tennessean), Corey Diaz (The Daily Advertiser), Gentry Estes (The Tennessean), Jackson Fuller (Southwest Times Record), Marc Weiszer (Athens Banner-Herald), Mike Wilson (Knoxville News Sentinel), Sam Hutches (The Clarion-Ledger), and Sam Sklar (The Clarion-Ledger).
Adam Cole is the Auburn athletics beat writer for the Montgomery Advertiser. He can be reached via email at acole@gannett.com or on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, @colereporter.
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