The Official #17 vs. #3 Houston Game Thread, 6:00 PM ET, TNT

[UTodd01]

Why is everybody concerned with winning this weird “tournament”…?

Just come out of this trip undefeated and get ready for the tough stretch we have coming up before conference play.

 

[chuckiepoo]

TN versus Iowa State would be an interesting game. 5 versus 6 possibility? They won’t want to match Kansas and ISU.

The maffs will decide. They don’t care about conference match ups.

 

[VolCalls]

Sadly, I don’t think Tennessee will be playing the championship game. Michigan and Gonzaga are blasting their opponents. Seems like it’s going to be Kansas in the 3rd place game.

Still a lot of game to go.

 

[floridavol25]

Not a fan of the format. Michigan plays SD State and the Pearl Jrs, gets the #1 place for the final. We knock off Houston and may get left out of the title game.

Exactly crap bracket.. why they can’t do two semi final type games then a final is crazy

 

[Jimmy Football]

Michigan is gonna win by more than 4

Michigan is gonna win by more than 40.

 

[The Tall Gguy]

Just very VERY happy with this win.

 

[ttocswob]

In this crazy tournament, Tennessee just played the game everyone’s gonna be talking about.

 

[Delmar]

Why is everybody concerned with winning this weird “tournament”…?

Just come out of this trip undefeated and get ready for the tough stretch we have coming up before conference play.

If I’m not mistaken, the winning team gets to split $2 million.(Not sure how that works but I heard the pregame guys talking about it.) Everyone else gets nada. Would be nice for the guys to get a shot at that especially when they’ll have the best win in the tournament. If I misunderstood that, somebody please correct me.

 

[floridavol25]

Why is everybody concerned with winning this weird “tournament”…?

Just come out of this trip undefeated and get ready for the tough stretch we have coming up before conference play.

We want to increase their NIL by 2 million … free up 2 mill for the next class

 

[VolCalls]

Exactly crap bracket.. why they can’t do two semi final type games then a final is crazy

I get what you’re saying, but it’s not that kind of event. There is major NIL $$ at stake so everyone wants to participate. This thing goes to 32 teams next year and the top four have to be flushed out in 3 days.

 

[floridavol25]

If I’m not mistaken, the winning team gets to split $2 million.(Not sure how that works but I heard the pregame guys talking about it.) Everyone else gets nada. Would be nice for the guys to get a shot at that especially when they’ll have the best win in the tournament. If I misunderstood that, somebody please correct me.

I think we still get something but not the 2 mill

 

[chuckiepoo]

In this crazy tournament, Tennessee just played the game everyone’s gonna be talking about.

They’ll be talking about Aubie getting blown out by Meeeshagan…

 

[VolCalls]

If I’m not mistaken, the winning team gets to split $2 million.(Not sure how that works but I heard the pregame guys talking about it.) Everyone else gets nada. Would be nice for the guys to get a shot at that especially when they’ll have the best win in the tournament. If I misunderstood that, somebody please correct me.

The winner of this event gets a $2 million boost in recruiting their 2026-27 roster.

 

[floridavol25]

Gotta love Pearl talking about how much Michigan spent in transfer portal lol

 

[bleedingTNorange]

The winner of this event gets a $2 million boost in recruiting their 2026-27 roster.

The winner gets $1m to their current players

 

[chuckiepoo]

The winner gets $1m to their current players

Thank you.

 

[Voltrapnbama]

TN versus Iowa State would be an interesting game. 5 versus 6 possibility? They won’t want to match Kansas and ISU.

They won’t have a choice in the match.

 

[RAVOL]

If Abrams and Burg can figure out their roles on this team, this team is going to be extremely hard to beat.

To me key to the entire season and winning championships. Very good take. In CHRIST Alone

 

[RockyTop140]

Gosh, AU competed toe to toe with Houston and now theyre getting blasted by Michigan. Tough to draw any conclusions about them

 

[VolCalls]

The winner gets $1m to their current players

Every team gets $1 million. The winning team gets another $1 million on top of that.

 

[VolArmy74]

As long as the NIL for the players is equal for the final 4, I'm good with playing whomever we do tomorrow. It's another opportunity for a quality win and going 3-0 with two high quality wins is a tournament win regardless of a trophy or not.

Sampson is on something about the fouls. They were fouling way more than they got called for, so us only shooting 29 free throws was a win for them. 8 of those 29 were them fouling on purpose in the final 35 seconds. They committed 21 total fouls, 17 before they started fouling to stop the clock. We were called for 15 total.

 

[VolNGA1]

Zags up 15 in the 1st half. Looking like the Vols vs Kansas at 7 tomorrow.

I read it that every team in the tourny gets $1M in NIL contribution. Then the top 4 split up an additional $2M pot.

 

[chuckiepoo]

Every team gets $1 million. The winning team gets another $1 million on top of that.

 

[VolArmy74]

Every team gets $1 million. The winning team gets another $1 million on top of that.

In that case the margin of victory is tough to swallow, since the match ups were not equal. Michigan got a "welcome to the finals" bracket.

 

[Butch Jones]

Why is everybody concerned with winning this weird “tournament”…?

Just come out of this trip undefeated and get ready for the tough stretch we have coming up before conference play.