The Official #19 Tennessee vs. #6 Arizona Game Thread, 7:00 PM ET, ESPN2

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#19 Tennessee Volunteers: 8-2 (0-0 SEC)

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#6 Arizona Wildcats: 11-0 (1-0 PAC 12)

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GAME 11 | TENNESSEE vs. ARIZONA - Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2021 | 7:01 p.m. ET | Thompson-Boling Arena (21,678)

Line: UT -2
O/U: 150

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Arizona Game Notes



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THE SERIES

• Tennessee leads its all-time series with Arizona, 3-1, dating to 1956.
• The Vols are 2-0 against the Wildcats in Knoxville, with wins in December of 1956 and 1982.
• Tennessee also defeated Arizona in Tucson in 1983.
• Arizona's lone win in the series was a one-point triumph at the 1998 BCA Classic in Albuquerque.
• First-year Tennessee assistant coach Justin Gainey was an assistant coach at Arizona from 2018-20.
• Tennessee freshman Jahmai Mashack's older brother, Kwesi Mashack, was a cornerback with the Arizona football program from 2014-17.
• Vols head coach Rick Barnes owns a 1-8 career record against Arizona and is 32-23 against current members of the Pac-12 Conference.
• Tennessee is 21-12 all-time against current Pac-12 programs and won at Colorado earlier this month.
 
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LAYUP LINES - TEAM

• According to KenPom, the Vols rank second in the nation in adjusted defensive efficiency, allowing only 85.8 points per 100 possessions. College teams typically average close to 70 possessions per game.
• Tennessee ranks fourth in Division I in assist/turnover ratio (1.80), fifth in turnover margin (+7.1) and sixth in assists per game (19.3 apg).
• The Vols also rank among the top 10 nationally in steals per game (10.6 spg, 7th) and scoring margin (+20.6 ppg, 9th).
• 45 percent of Tennessee's points this season have been scored by first-year Vols (356 of 785).
• The Vols are attempting 8.5 more 3-pointers per game than they did last season (28.4 per game compared to 19.9). In wins, UT is shooting .396 from long range. In losses, that average drops to .164.
• Tennessee ranks eighth nationally in average home attendance this season, drawing 16,073 fans per game at Thompson-Boling Arena.
 
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LAYUP LINES - PLAYERS

• Freshman All-America candidate Kennedy Chandler has scored or assisted on 34.8 percent of Tennessee's points this season.
• Chandler's 5.4 assists per game rank second in Division I among true freshmen.
• Victor Bailey Jr. played two years in the Pac-12 at Oregon. In four career games vs. Arizona, he averages 5.8 points and 1.5 rebounds while shooting .571 (4-for-7) from 3-point range.
• Wednesday will be John Fulkerson's 142nd career game as a Vol. That will tie him with Wayne Chism (2006-10) atop Tennessee's all-time games played list.
• Santiago Vescovi made 18 total 2-point field goals in 27 games last season. He's already made 19 2-point field goals through 10 games this year—many of them layups.
 
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ABOUT ARIZONA

• Arizona head coach Tommy Lloyd is in his first season as head coach of the Wildcats after having served as an assistant coach at Gonzaga for the previous 20 seasons.
• Lloyd is the first Pac-12 coach since Stanford's Walter Powell in 1920-21 to win the first 11 games of his career.
• At 11-0 overall, Arizona is off to its best start to a season since 2014-15—when it started 12-0.
• After beginning the season unranked, Arizona has ascended to a No. 6 ranking in the AP Poll—its highest ranking since the second week of the 2017-18 season.
• Arizona's 11 wins this season have come by an average of 28.2 points per game. The Wildcats have only played two games that finished within single digits—a four-point neutral site win over Wichita State and a four-point road win over Illinois.
• Freshman guard Bennedict Mathurin, a projected first round pick in the 2022 NBA Draft, leads the Wildcats in scoring with 17.4 points per game. Mathurin is one of eight international players on Arizona's roster.
• Another projected 2022 NBA Draft selection, sophomore forward Azuolas Tubelis, is averaging 16.1 points per game and 6.8 rebounds per game.
• Tennessee junior guard Santiago Vescovi has a history playing with three players on Arizona's roster. Vescovi played at the NBA Academy Latin America with Mathurin and junior center Oumar Ballo, while he played with sophomore guard Kerr Kriisa at a Basketball Without Borders camp.
 
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Mathurin is the kid that scares me the most. The big guys are a problem, but Mathurin is a borderline lottery pick and a big guard/wing. I would prefer JJJ to guard him for most of the game. Can't let 'Zona dominate the boards and hopefully, UT continues to shoot better from 3, at home. Vols 75-72
 
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MoCo_Vol said:
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Free shuttle buses. But don’t wait for the pre-game rush. Try to park by 6:00. I think that they continue to run for an hour after the final buzzer, so if you wait around afterwards through the 2 segments of CRB’s post game, court side radio show the lines to ride back shouldn’t be bad at all.

They drop off/pick up at the NE corner of the TBA. The ramp right there takes you up to around section 108-111ish. Basically behind the visitor’s bench. I haven’t been there this year, but there is also a Which Wich sandwich place right at the drop off spot. That line can get very long.
 
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THE SERIES

• Tennessee leads its all-time series with Arizona, 3-1, dating to 1956.
• The Vols are 2-0 against the Wildcats in Knoxville, with wins in December of 1956 and 1982.
• Tennessee also defeated Arizona in Tucson in 1983.
• Arizona's lone win in the series was a one-point triumph at the 1998 BCA Classic in Albuquerque.
• First-year Tennessee assistant coach Justin Gainey was an assistant coach at Arizona from 2018-20.
• Tennessee freshman Jahmai Mashack's older brother, Kwesi Mashack, was a cornerback with the Arizona football program from 2014-17.
• Vols head coach Rick Barnes owns a 1-8 career record against Arizona and is 32-23 against current members of the Pac-12 Conference.
• Tennessee is 21-12 all-time against current Pac-12 programs and won at Colorado earlier this month.
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I think most of Barnes's losses to the Wildcats were against Lute Olson.
 
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You can once again shuttle this year from the AG campus but if you don’t want to ride in a bus to the stadium and don’t mind paying $10 for parking this map is a pretty good guide. Be prepared for traffic no matter what you do.
 
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