Vanderbilt baseball coach Tim Corbin has built a winning culture, and Thursday’s quarterfinal win over Oklahoma at the SEC Baseball Tournament was no different.

Led by JD Thompson and Sawyer Hawks, Vanderbilt baseball put up an elite pitching performance in the SEC tournament vs Oklahoma with Tennessee next.

Tennessee baseball and Vanderbilt started with a tense first-inning moment in the series finale and ended with more tension. The teams had a brief brouhaha during the handshake line after Vanderbilt beat Tennessee 7-5 to win the rivalry series on May 11 ...

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.

See Vanderbilt baseball's seeding and game time for the SEC tournament in Hoover, Alabama after sweeping Kentucky.

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.

Graham Baakko is a writer for Vanderbilt Commodores On SI, primarily covering football, basketball and baseball. Graham is a recent graduate from the University of Alabama, where he wrote for The Crimson White, WVUA-FM, WVUA 23 as he covered a variety of ...

The debut at the SEC Tournament for the Texas baseball team was a short one. Gavin Kilen's two-run double in the 12th inning was the difference for Tennessee in a 7-5 win at the Hoover Metropolitan Stadium.