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

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.

Vanderbilt baseball showed its late-season turnaround with a series sweep of Kentucky that included two walk-off home runs.

The Commodores (39-16, 19-11 SEC) secured a double bye in the upcoming SEC tournament, while Kentucky (29-23, 13-17) is on the NCAA tournament bubble. Vanderbilt won each of the first two games of the series on walk-off home runs.

Here's what's at stake for Vanderbilt baseball's series against Kentucky, including a potential NCAA tournament national seed.

Here's how Brodie Johnston went from an under-the-radar small-school prospect to Vanderbilt baseball's starting third baseman as a freshman.

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