NCAA Tournament March Madness

#16 Tennessee

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Projected seed: 6

Tennessee’s placement reflects a résumé built on rugged defense and a handful of statement moments — a neutral-site victory over Houston and important road wins at Alabama and Vanderbilt along with strong home results against Louisville and Texas — that prove it can beat quality opponents in different settings. Those highs are tempered by damaging defeats, particularly the lopsided road loss at Florida and neutral-site setbacks to Kansas and Illinois, and by a string of close losses to Kentucky and on the road at Missouri that expose occasional offensive inconsistency away from home. The net effect is a team the committee views as solid but imperfect, with the conference tournament standing as the clearest opportunity to erase the bad results, add resume-boosting neutral-site wins and push its case into a more secure position.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3Mercer190W76-61
11/8N Kentucky176W95-56
11/12North Florida335W99-66
11/17Rice226W91-66
11/20Tennessee St187W89-60
11/24(N)Rutgers124W85-60
11/25(N)Houston5W76-73
11/26(N)Kansas21L81-76
12/2@Syracuse83L62-60
12/6(N)Illinois7L75-62
12/16Louisville19W83-62
12/21Gardner Webb361W94-52
12/30S Carolina St356W105-54
1/3@Arkansas15L86-75
1/6Texas37W85-71
1/10@Florida4L91-67
1/13Texas A&M39W87-82
1/17Kentucky28L80-78
1/24@Alabama18W79-73
1/28@Georgia32W86-85
1/31Auburn38W77-69
2/3Mississippi65W84-66
2/7@Kentucky28L74-71
2/11@Mississippi St100W73-64
2/14LSU60W73-63
2/18Oklahoma40W89-66
2/21@Vanderbilt12W69-65
2/24@Missouri52L73-69
2/28Alabama18L71-69
3/3@South Carolina95W78-59
3/7Vanderbilt12L86-82
3/12(N)Auburn38W72-62
3/13(N)Vanderbilt12L75-68