The six teams on the diamond at the 2025 SEC baseball tournament on Thursday carry all different types of motivation.

The SEC baseball tournament begins May 20 at Hoover Met, where some of the best teams and players in the nation will be on the field this week.

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.

The 2025 SEC baseball tournament kicks off on May 20 and runs through May 25 at the Hoover Metropolitan Complex in Hoover, Alabama. Follow along here during the action for the bracket, schedule, game times and scores. Texas is the No. 1 seed.

Tennessee baseball has lost five straight series and six of its past seven as it heads into the SEC Tournament in Hoover, Alabama.

On Monday ahead of the SEC Tournament, the final regular-season USA TODAY Sports Coaches Poll was released. Tennessee is down three spots and ranked No. 17 entering postseason play.