Vanderbilt is coming into the tournament on a roll, but faces a tough path to a SEC Tournament Championship. Can the Commodores win three games versus top teams

Vanderbilt baseball coach Tim Corbin has announced his starter for the Commodores' first game in the SEC tournament

Let’s pretend. It’s January of 2028. Emmy winner Nick Saban is bored. His post-coaching life was fun at first, but playing Pat McAfee’s straight man on ESPN and serving on the President’s Commission on College Sports got old in a hurry. The man who spent his life as part of a team misses the bond that can’t be matched on a TV set or in a boardroom.

Vanderbilt, a private school, has released its 990 tax form from 2023, which is the most recent year available. Here is how much coach Tim Corbin made.

RJ Austin and Brodie Johnston were both named to the SEC's All-Defensive team. The pair helped lead Vanderbilt to a .982 fielding percentage, seventh best in NCAA DI. Johnston was also named to the SEC's All Freshman team after leading all SEC freshman in home runs with 12. His 51 RBIs led the Commodores and was second in the league for freshman.

The Commodores won 12 of their final 16 SEC games, including a road series win over Tennessee. In total, Vanderbilt won six of its 10 SEC series with four sweeps: at home over Georgia, Texas A&M and Kentucky and on the road over Florida.

At least 12, and likely 13, SEC teams will receive bids to the NCAA tournament, which would break the SEC's own record of 11 teams set last season. Here's how every team's postseason stock shakes out with hosting, national seeds and the regional bubble.

Commodores won't have to play in Hoover, Ala. until either Thursday or Friday after clinching a top-four seed in the SEC standings.