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Ten games in, we’d normally be 33% of the way through the regular season. But depending on whether Tennessee’s game with South Carolina gets rescheduled, we’re more like 40-42% of the way home this year. Either way, we’ve got enough data to draw a couple of meaningful conclusions about this […]
Four Factors Forecast for the Vols: An all-you-can-eat buffet on the offensive boards with turnovers for dessert! But A&M draws fouls like roadkill draws flies, so watch out for that.
The four factors forecast for Tennessee’s game against the Arkansas Razorbacks tonight calls for patchy, dense defense.
It makes sense, especially in pandemic times, that just when you’re feeling most confident about your team, you’re brought swiftly back to earth. Tennessee’s 71-63 loss to Alabama dropped the Vols from sixth to eighth in KenPom, though the Vols now have the best defense in the nation in those […]
The Vols did their thing against Missouri, leading by 19 in the first nine minutes, 25+ for stretches of the second half, and 20 at the final buzzer. It wasn’t close, but it could’ve been closer in one regard: Missouri got to the line 30 times, but only made 18 […]
Okay. Missouri was undefeated with wins over Oregon, Wichita State, and Illinois. They’re ranked 12th in the country. And Tennessee jumped them 23-4 in the first 8.5 minutes. The Tigers never got within single digits. Defense: everywhere. Offense: everyone. This is Tennessee. Missouri shot 36.4% from the floor, 3-of-16 from […]
Big, big game tonight. Cuonzo’s teams make a good living off of frustrating their opponents. When it happens, it can really happen: his second Tennessee team beat Kentucky by 30, his third beat Virginia by 35 and won five straight by 15+ points at the end of the regular season […]
Here’s the four factors forecast for Tennessee’s game against the Missouri Tigers tomorrow.
How rare is what we’ll see at 9:00 PM ET on Wednesday night? In all the excitement of Tennessee’s hot start, we find ourselves asking not only if the Vols can win the SEC outright…but do so by such a margin that the quality of the rest of the league […]
With apologies to Sunday’s clash between Vanderbilt and Alcorn State, we turn our eyes to conference play: four games teams on Tuesday night, then the rest of us jump on board on Wednesday, including the Top 15 showdown between the Vols and Missouri. More on that game to come, but […]