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Your Gameday Gameplan: NCAA Tournament Round 1

Your Gameday Gameplan: NCAA Tournament Round 1

It’s Gameday on Rocky Top, and the first order of business for the 2-seed Tennessee Volunteers is a date with 15-seed Colgate. Here’s Grant Williams getting warmed up:

And here’s the Gameday Gameplan for Vols fans. Where and when to find the Vols game, what other games to watch, and what to listen to and read as you wait for kickoff.

When is the Vols game, and what TV channel is it on?

Here are the particulars for today’s Tennessee game against the Colgate Raiders:

The best other stuff for Vols fans to watch today

Here’s our list of games to watch today, curated just for Vols fans:

Date Time TV
Friday #10 Iowa #7 Cincinnati 12:15 PM CBS
Friday #9 Oklahoma #8 Ole Miss 12:40 PM truTV
Friday #13 UC Irvine #4 Kansas State 2:00 PM TBS
Friday #15 Colgate #2 Tennessee 2:45 PM CBS
Friday #16 Gardner-Webb #1 Virginia 3:10 PM truTV
Friday #12 Oregon #5 Wisconsin 4:30 PM TBS

Here’s the complete TV and tip-time schedule for the day:

Date Time TV
Friday #10 Iowa #7 Cincinnati 12:15 PM CBS
Friday #9 Oklahoma #8 Ole Miss 12:40 PM truTV
Friday #14 Northern Kentucky #3 Texas Tech 1:30 PM TNT
Friday #13 UC Irvine #4 Kansas State 2:00 PM TBS
Friday #15 Colgate #2 Tennessee 2:45 PM CBS
Friday #16 Gardner-Webb #1 Virginia 3:10 PM truTV
Friday #11 Arizona State #6 Buffalo 4:00 PM TNT
Friday #12 Oregon #5 Wisconsin 4:30 PM TBS
Friday #9 Washington #8 Utah State 6:50 PM TNT
Friday #16 North Dakota State #1 Duke 7:10 PM CBS
Friday #14 Georgia State #3 Houston 7:20 PM TBS
Friday #12 Liberty #5 Mississippi State 7:27 PM truTV
Friday #16 Iona #1 North Carolina 9:20 PM TNT
Friday #9 UCF #8 VCU 9:40 PM CBS
Friday #11 Ohio State #6 Iowa State 9:50 PM TBS
Friday #13 Saint Louis #4 Virginia Tech 9:57 PM truTV

Pre-game audio

As you hurry home from work to get in front of the TV in time for the tip, be sure to tune in to Will’s weekly appearance with Josh Ward and Will West on WNML’s Sports 180 radio show. He’s on at 1:30 every Friday.

Pre-game prep

While you wait for the tip, here’s some stuff to read to get you ready. It includes our pre-game stuff from earlier this week plus stuff worth reading and watching from other sites:

Our pre-game articles this week:

Pre-game interviews

Other Vols stuff worth reading today

  1. Colgate coach’s 9-year-old son offers advice on beating Vols, via 247Sports
  2. Everything Rick Barnes said before Vols face Colgate, via 247Sports
  3. What Colgate said about facing Tennessee in NCAA Tournament, via 247Sports
  4. Rucker: Lack of respect that no longer exists motivates Vols, via 247Sports
  5. Lamonte Turner: Title-or-bust for Tennessee, via 247Sports

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