Here’s the latest info from the team sheets, updated through the games on Tuesday night and sorted by NET Rankings: Tennessee is still in the Top 4 despite having their Quadrant 1 win over Mississippi State Tuesday negated by the win at Texas A&M falling from Q1 to Q2 thanks […]
Month: March 2019
Tennessee 71, Mississippi State 54: four-factors review
Tennessee’s recent renewed focus on shooting and rebounding defense has been paying dividends lately, and both were key to the dominating victory on Senior Night.
Hello Defense My Old Friend
We’ve said it plenty of times this year: with the exception of seven seed UConn in 2014, every national champion of the KenPom era has had a Top 20 offense and defense (original story from the SB Nation Villanova blog last February). In the last week of the regular season, […]
Tennessee-Mississippi State four-factors preview: defend after offensive boards
Our four-factors preview suggests that defending well after Mississippi State gets offensive rebounds will be key for the Vols tonight.
Mississippi State Preview & #1 Seed Update
Let’s return to a question we posed before the Kentucky game: would you rather be the one seed in Kansas City, or the two seed in Louisville? I’m not worried about the difference between playing a 15 or 16 seed, or even the potential quality of opponent in the Sweet […]
College basketball TV schedule for Vols fans: Week of 3.4.19
Here’s our list of games worth watching this week, specifically curated for fans of the Tennessee Volunteers. Monday Tonight we’re rooting for Syracuse over Virginia. Tuesday The first order of business Tuesday is the Vols taking care of business at home against Mississippi State at 9:00 on the SEC Network. […]
Tennessee climbs to No. 4 in the NET Rankings
After adding two more Quadrant 1 wins to their resume this past week, the Tennessee Volunteers moved from No. 7 to No. 4 in the all-important NET Rankings. Here’s the summary version of the team sheets for the Top 8 teams in the most current NET Rankings (games through Saturday, […]
Vols Land 5-Star Corey Walker: What is and What Could (Ever) Be*
As we speculated two weeks ago, 5-star Wing Corey Walker committed to the Vols this past weekend in what was without a doubt the biggest recruiting weekend in the history of the Tennessee basketball program. What’s noteworthy about this commitment isn’t just that this is Barnes’s 2nd 5-star commitment in […]
If Lexington Was The Exception, Knoxville Must Be The Rule
The best blueprint to beat Tennessee was fairly straightforward: get to the free throw line. The only teams to do it – Kansas (34), Kentucky (33), and LSU (31) – all got to the stripe at least 30 times, and all shot at least 15 more free throws than the […]
Tennessee 71, Kentucky 52: “Educated” it is
In the first meeting this season, Kentucky shot 54.7% from the field and 38.5% from the arc. Today? Only 31.8% from the field and 26.3% from three.