The Official #22 Tennessee vs. Texas A&M Game Thread, 7:00 PM ET, SEC Network

[YankeeVol]

#22 Tennessee Volunteers: 14-6 (5-3 SEC)

vs.

Texas A&M Aggies: 15-6 (4-4 SEC)

GAME 21 | TENNESSEE vs. TEXAS A&M - Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2022 | 7:01 p.m. ET | Thompson-Boling Arena (21,678)

Line: UT -11
O/U: 131.5

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Texas A&M Game Notes

 

[YankeeVol]

THE SERIES

• Tennessee leads its all-time series with Texas A&M, 9-6, dating to 1951. The Aggies joined the SEC for the 2012-13 season.
• The programs are deadlocked at 4-4 when this series is contested in Knoxville.
• Tuesday marks this season's lone regular-season meeting between the Volunteers and Aggies.
• The Vols have already faced Texas Tech and Texas this season.
• Rick Barnes once interviewed Aggies head coach Buzz Williams for an assistant coach position during Barnes' tenure as the head coach at Texas.
• Tennessee senior Victor Bailey Jr. was born in Dallas and grew up in Austin, Texas. He graduated from McNeil High School in Austin in 2017.
• In two games vs. teams from the state of Texas this season, the Vols average just 51.5 points while allowing 54.5 points—very low-scoring affairs.

 

[YankeeVol]

LAYUP LINES - TEAM

• The Volunteers have yet to suffer back-to-back losses this season.
• Tennessee ranks fifth nationally in average home attendance (17,234) and is a perfect 11-0 at Thompson-Boling Arena.
• Tennessee owns a +22.5 scoring margin at home this season (79.4 ppg to 56.8 ppg).
• Tennessee stands at No. 12 in the NCAA's latest NET ratings. Each of UT's six losses are Quad 1.
• Tennessee ranks 17th nationally on the NCAA's official "toughest schedule" metric.
• According to KenPom, the Vols rank fifth in the nation in adjusted defensive efficiency, allowing only 87.0 points per 100 possessions.
• The Vols rank among the Division I top 15 in steals per game (9.9, 10th), turnover margin (+5.0, 11th) and turnovers forced per game (17.7, 11th).
• Tennessee is undefeated (5-0) when Alyssa Lang is working the game as the courtside reporter.

 

[YankeeVol]

LAYUP LINES - PLAYERS

• Santiago Vescovi has increased his team-leading 14.0 ppg scoring average to 16.4 ppg in SEC play.
• Vescovi's 3.63 3-point makes per game during SEC play lead the league.
• Naismith Defensive Player of the Year candidate Kennedy Chandler's 2.26 steals per game rank 15th nationally and second among all Division I true freshmen.
• Chandler has scored (251) or assisted (216) on 32 percent of Tennessee's total points this season (467 of 1,469).
• Over Tennessee's last four games, true freshman Zakai Zeigler is averaging 9.8 points and 3.8 rebounds in 21.8 minutes per game.
• The SEC record for career games played is 152, held by Kentucky's Darius Miller (2008-12). John Fulkerson is closing in, having now appeared in a Tennessee-record 150 career games.

 

[YankeeVol]

ABOUT TEXAS A&M

• Texas A&M (15-6, 4-4 SEC) has dropped four straight games after racing out to a 15-2 (4-0 SEC) start.
• The Aggies' four straight losses have come by an average of 6.5 points, with two coming to ranked teams (vs. No. 12 Kentucky, at No. 19 LSU).
• Texas A&M posted an 11-2 record in non-conference play, yet recorded just one win across Quadrants 1 and 2.
• As of Jan. 31, Texas A&M ranked No. 65 in the NET ratings.
• The Aggies' roster features five Division I transfers that are in their first seasons at Texas A&M: Javonte Brown (UConn), Henry Coleman III (Duke), Ethan Henderson (Arkansas), Tyrece Radford (Virginia Tech) and Marcus Williams (Wyoming).
• Jalen Johnson also transferred to Texas A&M from Mississippi State but tore his ACL in October and is out for the season.
• Coleman, who appeared in 19 games last season at Duke, is Texas A&M's leading rebounder and second-leading scorer. Coleman is averaging 14.0 points and 7.4 rebounds in SEC play. He's coming off a career-high 15 rebounds on Saturday against South Carolina.
• Quenton Jackson, Texas A&M's leading scorer, has scored in double figures in three consecutive games and in 14 games this season. Jackson is the Aggies' leading scorer despite ranking fifth on the team in minutes per game.
• Texas A&M leads the SEC and ranks sixth in the nation with 18.1 turnovers forced per game. The Aggies also rank sixth in the nation and second in the SEC with 10.5 steals per game.

 

[cwbytruckers]

i know foul trouble could be an issue but i would love to see full court press right out of the gate with these guys.

 

[Volfan1000]

Tennessee needs to drive the ball more and not settle for every three point look.

 

[mr.checkerboards]

Buzz will have AM trapping and pressing. Turnovers could be a problem tonight.

 

[VolPack22]

This will not be an easy game. Idk how we are favored by -11.5

 

[bleedingTNorange]

Win it, would be nice to have some fashion points but most importantly win.

 

[FlVols]

We NEED another win!

 

[patrick]

Go Vols.........

Likely to be another ugly game.

 

[camp_steveo]

Maybe the Vols will carry the comeback momentum from the Texas loss into tonight's game and on through the rest of the season?

Would be nice.....

 

[OrangeBeachVol]

If they want to have any chance of success in the post season they have to improve their O inefficiency somehow. I have never heard of a BB coach having to threaten to remove players from the game if they don't take shots when they have them. BB players who don't want to shoot, that's a new one for me.

 

[chuckb1448]

I hope we practiced lay ups and I wish Barnes would say first 8 points needs to come from the paint before anyone shoots a three pointer

 

[volz2wallz]

GBO!!

 

[VFL1127]

I don't understand why Tn is so timid on offense.. Why don't our guards drive to the basket more often?

 

[JohnWardForever]

This will not be an easy game. Idk how we are favored by -11.5

Exactly. I'm putting a dollar on A&M to cover. This will be a tight game..... Go Vols.

 

[K-town Vol Fan]

I don't understand why Tn is so timid on offense.. Why don't our guards drive to the basket more often?

Seems like when we do we either miss the layup or dish it off to a wide open big man who isn't ready for the pass and fumbles it away.

 

[OrangeBeachVol]

Seems like when we do we either miss the layup or dish it off to a wide open big man who isn't ready for the pass and fumbles it away.

Only Fulky seems to be good at catching those type of passes. ON has total brink hands and/or is not even looking for a pass and Uros is an adventure as to what he does with it.

 

[K-town Vol Fan]

Dont worry guys, I just put $15 on A&M to cover the spread. We should blow them out now.

 

[dono]

Barnes needs to coach em up on free throw shooting.

 

[OrangeBeachVol]

Dont worry guys, I just put $15 on A&M to cover the spread. We should blow them out now.

Thanks in advance for your contribution towards the blowout win. Need one of those type wins.

 

[Ttucke11]

I think I can confidently predict an extremely slow start with a lot of lead changes, until we pull away around the 10 minute mark in the 2nd. End up winning 67-62 after almost letting them claw back in. Pretty par for the course.

 

[lostsheep]

I hope we practiced lay ups and I wish Barnes would say first 8 points needs to come from the paint before anyone shoots a three pointer

I can get behind the first few looks coming from the paint, but if we say the first 8 points then it may be within the 5 minute mark to go in the 1st before we get there based on our recent post play.