Just a hunch and not 100% positive how the seeding for Omaha would play out, I think the committee will try and put Arkansas and Vanderbilt in a situation where if they would both make it to Omaha they would knock one another out in the same side of the bracket and not allow a potential Arkansas - Vanderbilt CWS final.
Which I think would mean that if Arkansas was a 1 seed and Vanderbilt was a 2 seed, they would be in opposite brackets in Omaha and. The above could potentially happen.......Most experts would probably agree that would likely happen.
Giving UT a 2 seed, they are probably thinking we wouldn’t make it that far which would allow another conference to make it to the finals.