When Tennessee baseball swept Vanderbilt, four of the great UT athletics teams did something they never did: sweep the Vanderbilt Commodores.
Tennessee men’s and women’s basketball combined for a 4-0 record against the Commodores this season, and Tennessee football took care of business back in November to defeat Vanderbilt 45-21.
Starting with the football season and through the baseball season, the Vols have never achieved this feat in the history of the school.
Tennessee football and Lady Vols basketball have historically done well against the Commodores. UT football has a record of 78-33-5 against Vandy, and Big Orange Women has a dominant record of 76-10 over Black and Gold.
As for Tennessee baseball, BaseVols have been battling the Commodores in the Tim Corbin era, as this weekend’s sweep of UT marks only the third of Vols against Vandy in the 21st century.
The other two sweeps came in 2009 and 2000. In the 2008-2009 season, the Vols were close to sweeping Vandy in the four sports, as Lady Vols were the only team of the four to lose to the Commodores and share their battles against rival in the state. in 2009.
Looking at the 1999-2000 season, the Tennessees men’s braces prevented the Vandy sweep when the Commodores defeated the Orange and White at Nashville and Knoxville that season.
Tennessee baseball had relative success against Vanderbilt in the 1990s, sweeping Black and Gold four times (’98, ’96, ’94, ’91). But every season that BaseVols swept the Commodores, BasketVols failed to win both games of the regular season against rival in the state.
Note: Lady Vols and UT football did not lose a regular season match to Vanderbilt in the 1990s.
UT baseball swept Vanderbilt in 1985 and 1983, but Tennessee basketball went a combined 1-3 against the Commodores in the two regular seasons. Vanderbilt’s four-sport sweep was a battle from taking place in the 1975-1976 season, when BasketVols fell to the Commodores in Nashville 77-66.
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Before 2009, the last time Tennessee men’s basketball won both games against Vanderbilt, and baseball conducted a weekend series sweep against Vandy, was the 1974-1975 season.
But in the ’74 -’75 season, Tennessee played football with Vanderbilt, and the Lady Vols-Vanderbilt series had not yet begun when the two teams first met in the 1975-1976 season.
Therefore, UT performed for the first time in history against the rival in the state with their victory in Nashville on Sunday.
With the win, Tennessee baseball improved to a record of 177-161-2 against Vanderbilt through all time and now has six series on the season, mostly since head coach Tony Vitello took the reins at Knoxville.
Note: Tennessee and Vanderbilt baseball played several regular season series each season until 1986. So when referring to seasons before 1986, as long as the Vols swept the Commodores in a weekend series, the season will count toward a potential “Vanderbilt sweep” in the four sports.
Statistics via UT Sports and College Basketball Sports Reference
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