2018-2019 schedule released

[bleedingTNorange]

University of Tennessee Athletics

vs. Tusculum*

vs. Lenoir-Rhyne
vs. Louisiana
vs. Georgia Tech
n Louisville
n Marquette/Kansas
vs. Eastern Kentucky
vs. Texas A&M-Corpus Christi
n Gonzaga
@ Memphis
vs. Samford
vs. Wake Forest
vs. Tennessee Tech
vs. Georgia
@ Missouri
@ Florida
vs. Arkansas
vs. Alabama
@ Vanderbilt
vs. West Virginia
@ South Carolina
@ Texas A&M
vs. Missouri
vs. Florida
vs. South Carolina
@ Kentucky
vs. Vanderbilt
@ LSU
@ Ole Miss
vs. Kentucky
vs. Mississippi State
@ Auburn

 

[hUTch2002]

Football is king but I love b-ball season too. I see something like 22-9 or 23-8 there but that’s a tough schedule. We will make more NCAA noise this year!

 

[Special Ed]

OCTOBER
Day Opponent Location Time TV
Oct. 31 Wednesday Tusculum (exhibition) Knoxville, Tenn. 7 pm SEC Network +
NOVEMBER
Nov. 6 Tuesday Lenoir-Rhyne Knoxville, Tenn.
Nov. 9 Friday Louisiana Knoxville, Tenn.
Nov. 13 Tuesday Georgia Tech Knoxville, Tenn.
NIT SEASON TIP-OFF
Dates: Nov. 21 & 23 | Venue: Barclays Center | Teams: UT, Kansas, Louisville, Marquette
Nov. 21 Wednesday vs. Louisville New York City 5 pm ESPN2
Nov. 23 Friday vs. Kansas or Marquette New York City 7 or 9 pm ESPN2
Nov. 28 Wednesday Eastern Kentucky Knoxville, Tenn.
DECEMBER
Dec. 2 Sunday Texas A&M-Corpus Christi Knoxville, Tenn.
Dec. 9 Sunday vs. Gonzaga Phoenix, Ariz.
Dec. 15 Saturday @ Memphis Memphis, Tenn.
Dec. 19 Wednesday Samford Knoxville, Tenn.
Dec. 22 Saturday Wake Forest Knoxville, Tenn.
Dec. 29 Saturday Tennessee Tech Knoxville, Tenn.
JANUARY
Jan. 5 Saturday Georgia Knoxville, Tenn.
Jan. 8 Tuesday @ Missouri Columbia, Mo.
Jan. 12 Saturday @ Florida Gainesville, Fla.
Jan. 15 Tuesday Arkansas Knoxville, Tenn.
Jan. 19 Saturday Alabama Knoxville, Tenn.
Jan. 23 Wednesday @ Vanderbilt Nashville, Tenn.
Jan. 26 Saturday West Virginia Knoxville, Tenn.
Jan. 29 Tuesday @ South Carolina Columbia, S.C.
FEBRUARY
Feb. 2 Saturday @ Texas A&M College Station, Texas
Feb. 5 Tuesday Missouri Knoxville, Tenn.
Feb. 9 Saturday Florida Knoxville, Tenn.
Feb. 13 Wednesday South Carolina Knoxville, Tenn.
Feb. 16 Saturday @ Kentucky Lexington, Ky.
Feb. 19 Tuesday Vanderbilt Knoxville, Tenn.
Feb. 23 Saturday @ LSU Baton Rouge, La.
Feb. 27 Wednesday @ Ole Miss Oxford, Miss.
MARCH
March 2 Saturday Kentucky Knoxville, Tenn.
March 5 Tuesday Mississippi State Knoxville, Tenn.
March 9 Saturday @ Auburn Auburn, Ala.

 

[VolBricks]

Who threw in that WVU game in the middle of SEC season.

 

[cncchris33]

Who threw in that WVU game in the middle of SEC season.

SEC/Big 12 Challenge. We have played that for several years now. Played Iowa State on the road last year and skull-dragged them in their own gym.

 

[omghulkhands]

Nice. Assume ours will be among the strongest non-con schedules in the country.

 

[The Dog]

Nice. Assume ours will be among the strongest non-con schedules in the country.

It has to be, that's brutal. I think UTs record might not improve much or at all over last year's. I still think we make a monumental run in the NCAA Tourney. Wouldn't be surprised if this is the year, UT wins the SEC Tourney, either

 

[Tri-CitiesVol]

First time no ETSU in awhile?

 

[Pruitt Will Do It]

I think Tennessee goes 27-4

11-2 outside the SEC
16-2 in the SEC

Final Four Semifinals

 

[SweetDaddy]

26-5 and a Final 4.

 

[VolGee4]

First time no ETSU in awhile?

Didn’t play them last year.

 

[Tri-CitiesVol]

Oops.

 

[sport3500]

I don't think Tennessee has ever played Texas Corpus Christie in basketball and that is a tough schedule.

 

[omghulkhands]

It depends on how good some of these teams finish the season, but you could lose 10 and still finish top 25 potentially.

Florida finished 23rd and had 12 losses. UNC finished 9th with 10

 

[TNfan#2]

I don't think Tennessee has ever played Texas Corpus Christie in basketball and that is a tough schedule.

That school only started playing basketball in I think it was either 1999 or 2000. Looking on Wikipedia, their sole claim to any sort of fame was a single NCAA tournament appearance in 2007. They went in as a 15 seed and predictably got crushed by Wisconsin. They're a Southland Conference school, and the only two schools currently in that conference that have ever done anything significant are Lamar, which somehow managed 4 first round upsets and a Sweet Sixteen appearance between 1979 to 83, and of course more recently Stephen F. Austin, which since 2008 has made five NCAA appearances, two NIT appearances, and advanced to the Round of 32 in 2014 and 2016. There are probably Division II teams that are of better quality then Texas Corpus Christi.

Didn’t play them last year.

UT and ETSU generally go back and forth as to whether or not they can work out an arrangement to play against each other. They can play several years in a row, but there have been numerous times when they've had a multi year gap between meetings also. Just really depends on how overall scheduling works out or doesn't work out.