Tennessee, the 3rd-ranked entry in the NCAA Division I Baseball World Series, has joined 5th-ranked Arizona in packing its gear and heading home

Down and out went 3rd-ranked Tennessee after falling in the double-elimination loser’s bracket Monday to 2nd-ranked Texas at the TD Armeritrade Park in Omaha, Neb.

The Volunteers wound up at 50-18 after being one of the favorites to carry off the championship. They quickly took a 4-0 lead only to have the Longhorns bounce back with a 5-run third inning, and adding three more in the fifth to advance to 48-15 and remain in the hunt.

Tennessee followed 5th-ranked Arizona’s ouster and both were done and gone after two games. Now Texas will meet up with Stanford (39-16), which survived by disposing of Arizona, 12-4, in the loser’s bracket.

The surviving six now has two undefeated teams with unseeded North Carolina State (36-18) at 2-0. and surprising unranked, unseeded Virginia (37-25) and 7th-ranked Mississippi State (45-16) both at 1-0 and in tonight’s closing game winner’s bracket contest.

The Wolf Pack will take on the winner of that game, with the loser dropping into the loser’s bracket.

This leaves the college baseball’s Division I biggest stage with the Southeastern Conference’s Vanderbilt and Mississippi State, with the Commodores also at 2-0. The PAC-12 still has Stanford, Texas of the Big 12

remains, and both N.C. State and Virginia of the Atlantic Coast Conference are left, and unbeaten.