The Official #21 Tennessee vs. Jacksonville State Game Thread, 1:00 PM ET, SEC Network+

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#21 Tennessee Volunteers: 7-3 (0-0 SEC)

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Jacksonville State Gamecocks: 4-7 (0-0 OVC)

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GAME 11 | TENNESSEE vs. JACKSONVILLE STATE - Dec. 21, 2019 | 1:01 p.m. ET | Thompson-Boling Arena (21,678)

Line: UT: -20
O/U: 128

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JSU Game Notes

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THE SERIES
• Tennessee has never previously faced Jacksonville State on the collegiate hardwood, but the Vols are 58-2 all-time against current members of the Ohio Valley Conference.
• Rick Barnes is 5-0 in his career against current members of the OVC.
 
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A WIN WOULD...
• Be Rick Barnes' 700th career head coaching victory.
• Give Tennessee a 55-17 record as a ranked team (AP rankings) during the Barnes era.
• Prevent UT's first three-game losing skid since Feb. 22 through March 1 of the 2016-17 season (Vanderbilt, South Carolina, LSU).
• Give the program a 212-132 record in the 2010s as the decade draws near to a close.
 
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STORYLINES
• JSU is located in Jacksonville, Alabama—an entirely different city and state than the site of Tennessee's upcoming football bowl game, which will be played in Jacksonville, Florida, on Jan. 2.
• In 111 seasons of varsity basketball, Tennessee has played only one opponent whose name starts with the letter J, and that is Johnson Bible College (four all-time meetings between 1913-21).
• There are currently four Division I schools that start with J: Jackson State, Jacksonville University, Jacksonville State and James Madison.
• After establishing themselves as a top-10 defensive team entering this week, the Vols had an uncharacteristically poor defensive showing at Cincinnati Wednesday. Tennessee allowed the Bearcats to shoot 56 percent as a team, and UC became the first UT opponent to score 70 points this season.
 
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LAYUP LINES
• Tennessee is ranked No. 21 in both the AP and the coaches poll this week.
• Tennessee leads the SEC and ranks 13th nationally in scoring defense, allowing only 57.6 ppg.
• The Vols were a perfect 17-for-17 at the free-throw line Wednesday night at Cincinnati.
• Over its last two games, Tennessee is 7-for-41 (.171) from 3-point range. The Vols look to break out of the slump Saturday in the friendly confines of Thompson-Boling Arena.
• Junior John Fulkerson is shooting a team-best .662 from the field while averaging a career-best 11.4 points per game this season.
• Junior forward Yves Pons has blocked at least one shot in every game this season and has a team-high 21 blocks thus far.
• True freshman Josiah-Jordan James leads the Vols and ranks 12th in the SEC with 6.3 rebounds per game. He is the top-rebounding freshman in the league.
 
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ABOUT JACKSONVILLE STATE
• Jacksonville State is coming off an incredibly impressive 2018-19 campaign. Last season saw the Gamecocks finish with an overall record of 24-9, a 15-3 mark in Ohio Valley play and a third-place league finish behind OVC powers Belmont and Murray State. However, their loss in the semis of the OVC Tournament saw their season end without a berth in the NCAA Tournament.
• The Gamecocks are coming off of back-to-back home victories over Evansville and Delaware State and own a record of 4-7. JSU has struggled to find consistent production from the point guard position this season, with expected producers Derek Cook and Marek Welsch each averaging fewer than five points per game.
• Jacksonville State, like Tennessee, took part in the 2019 Emerald Coast Classic in Niceville, Florida. In the Sunshine State, the Gamecocks took down Chicago State before falling in the fifth-place game to Chattanooga.
• JSU's bright spot has been sophomore guard De'Torrion Ware, who is the Gamecocks' leading scorer (11.5 ppg) and rebounder (6.3 rpg).
• JSU assistant coach Chase Richardson is seen as a rising star in the ranks of collegiate coaching. Following the 2016-17 season, which saw the Gamecocks win the OVC and advance to the NCAA Tournament, Richardson was placed on the NABC's 30-under-30 list. Current UT assistant Kim English was placed on this same list in 2017-18 during his time as an assistant at Colorado.
• Jacksonville State is a public, state-funded institution located in Jacksonville, Alabama. It was founded in 1883, originally as a teachers' college.
 
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We need a 4-7 team right now to work on our offense. I want to see some ball movement and someone to hit an open shot.
 
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Barnes needs to get that 700th win in the rear view mirror today. It's a pretty good incentive for opponents to not lose that game. You know that Memphis loved avoiding that in addition to ending the 31 game streak. Opponents get much better after today as well.
 
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Just get the W today guys. With all that has transpired, 8-3 in our first 11 with some quality wins and no bad losses isn’t too shabby. Have fun. Back to the basics. GBO 🍊
 
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I'm not clear on this and I apologize it it's been discussed. Did Jordan's grandmother pass away yesterday?
 
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Zues1 said:
I'm not clear on this and I apologize it it's been discussed. Did Jordan's grandmother pass away yesterday?
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She did pass. Think it was late Wednesday/early Thursday morning, after the Cincy game though.
 
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VolBricks said:
We need a 4-7 team right now to work on our offense. I want to see some ball movement and someone to hit an open shot.
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I think we need to rotate Bowden and Turner more. Keep one of them on the floor at all times.

Force another player to step up and be our third guard in a rotation.

Who that might be is a mystery to me at this point..?
 
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Thunder Good-Oil said:
JJJ, JJ, and Gaines.
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I think we will see a different JJJ from this point on. Time for him to start putting up 16-18 per game.

We have to find a pure 3-point shooter.

Pons, Turner, Bowden can all have moments, but they all going to average 25-35% on uncontested 3-balls
 
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