This Tennessee team talks a lot about the 2017 off-season as the launching point for their success. It first showed up on the floor against Purdue. November 22, 2017 really isn’t that long ago. But for Tennessee’s program, that day was about getting a neutral-site win over a ranked foe […]

As the Vols march onward to the Sweet 16 this Thursday, with dreams of the program’s first Final Four still very much alive, Head Coach Rick Barnes and his staff are not taking their foot off the recruiting pedal.  As we’ve discussed back in January, despite currently being full for […]

Rebounding is always important, but it could be especially so in Tennessee’s Thursday night Sweet 16 game against Purdue.

Last year Tennessee was on the wrong side of a good story and a bad bounce, sending Loyola-Chicago to the Sweet 16 and the Vols to think about next year. For the first 20 minutes today, the Vols were the good story: total annihilation of Iowa, a can-you-top-this response to […]

Here’s a Vols-oriented gameplan for watching Round 2 of the NCAA Tournament games today and tomorrow, including TV channel and approximate tip times.

Goals, derived from a dive into the advanced stats: Play inside-out, defend without fouling. Advanced to next weekend.

When last we met, ’twas overtime in Dayton, and we started asking ourselves, “Can Josh Richardson – Josh Richardson – be the alpha for this team?” Five years and two coaches later, Josh Richardson is the leading scorer for the Miami Heat, and Tennessee is aiming to be the the alpha […]

Tennessee’s NCAA Tournament history goes something like this: after the field was expanded to 64 teams in 1985, the Vols didn’t make the Sweet 16 until 2000. With the turn of the century came better basketball: Tennessee played its way to the second weekend in 2000, 2007, 2008, 2010, and […]

Here’s a Vols-oriented gameplan for watching the NCAA Tournament games today and tomorrow, including TV channel and approximate tip times.