The Official #4 Tennessee vs. #10 Texas - Battle for the Real UT - Game Thread, 6:00 PM ET, ESPN

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#4 Tennessee Volunteers: 17-3 (7-1 SEC)
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#10 Texas Longhorns: 17-3 (6-2 Big 12)
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GAME 21 | TENNESSEE vs. TEXAS - Saturday, Jan. 28, 2023 | 6:05 p.m. ET | Knoxville, Tenn. | Thompson-Boling Arena (21,678)


Line: UT -5.5
O/U: 135

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THE SERIES

• Tennessee trails its all-time series with Texas, 3-4, dating to 1952.
• The Volunteers won both
meetings in Knoxville, beating the Longhorns in 1952 before triumphing in an overtime thriller, 111-105, on Dec. 23, 2006.
• Rick Barnes was the head coach at Texas for four of the seven previous meetings in this series; the schools split those four games.
• For a comprehensive listing of highlights during Barnes' 17-year tenure at Texas, see Page 3.
• This matchup will soon become more frequent, as Texas (and Oklahoma) will join the SEC by 2025.
• The Vols have won four straight home games against AP top-10 teams.
• Dating to 2017, Tennessee has won seven consecutive home games during Coaches vs. Cancer "Suits and Sneakers" Week.
• The Vols are 21-7 all-time during "Suits and Sneakers" week, including a 15-2 record at home.
 
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SCOUTING REPORT

• The Vols have held the No. 2 spot in the NCAA's NET ratings since Jan. 3. • Saturday marks only the second-ever top-10 matchup at Thompson-Boling Arena. The first saw No. 7 Tennessee defeat No. 4 Kentucky, 71-52, on March 2, 2019. • During conference play, Tennessee leads the SEC in scoring defense (55.1 ppg), field-goal percentage (.478), 3-point percentage (.356), assists (17.6) and assist/turnover
ratio (1.42).
• In its last 24 games against SEC opponents, the Vols are 22-2 with wins over every league opponent except Alabama (no meetings).
• Zakai Zeigler is averaging a league- best 7.3 assists during SEC play. In his last 88 minutes played, he has 20 assists and one turnover.
• Julian Phillips is the reigning SEC Freshman of the Week.
• UT ranks fifth nationally in average home attendance (17,519)—one of three SEC teams in the top five.
 
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THE NATION'S BEST DEFENSE

• For the ninth straight week, the Volunteers own the best adjusted defensiveefficiencyinthecountry per KenPom, allowing only 82.7 points per 100 possessions. For more on UT's defense, see Page 3.
• Tennessee owns the nation's best scoring defense (53.7 ppg), field- goal percentage defense (.339) and 3-point defense (.216).
• It's been more than a month since the Vols allowed a team to score 70 points (Dec. 17 at Arizona; 75).
• 10 times this season, the Vols have held their opponents to 50 points or less.
• Only three opposing players have scored 20 or more points against the Vols this season.
• In 20 games, Tennessee opponents have managed to make only 96 3-pointers—just 4.8 per game.
• Tennessee has trailed at the break only three times this season and is outscoring its opponents 35.3 ppg to 24.9 ppg in first-half action (+10.4 ppg).
 
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ABOUT TEXAS
  • Texas (17-3) enters Saturday tied atop the Big 12 standings with a 6-2 league record and coming off two straight wins—having defeated West Virginia and Oklahoma State after falling at Iowa State on Jan. 17.
  • The Longhorns ascended as high as No. 2 in the AP Poll in December and have been ranked in the top-10 for the past 10 weeks.
    • Currently ranked No. 8 in the NET rankings, Texas is tied for second in the nation with six Quadrant I wins. All three of the Longhorns’ losses have come within Quadrant I—Illinois (neutral), Kansas State and at Iowa State.
    • The Longhorns are 5-2 in games played away from Austin this season—3-1 in true road games and 2-1 in neutral-site contests.
    • Texas is 10-2 since interim head coach and former associate head coach Rodney Terry took over on Dec. 12. Terry served as an assistant under Rick Barnes at Texas for nine seasons from 2002-11.
• Graduate guard Marcus Carr leads the team in scoring (17.6 ppg), assists (85), steals (35) and minutes (32.1 mpg) while hitting 41.5-percent (51-for-123) from 3-point range. With 21 points Tuesday against Oklahoma State, Carr surpassed the 20-point mark for the sixth time this season.
• Texas’ roster features four players who have already surpassed the 1,000-career point mark: Carr (2,099 points), Utah transfer Timmy Allen (1,947), New Mexico State transfer Sir’Jabari Rice (1,306) and Creighton transfer Christian Bishop (1,100).
• Texas is 4-4 in its eight all-time appearances in the SEC/Big 12 Challenge. Three of those games have been road contests—all losses (at Georgia in 2017 and 2019, at Kentucky in 2014).
 
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IF IT WEREN’T FOR TENNESSEE, TEXAS WOULD BE “NORTH MEXICO”

• There can be no doubt Texas owes a great debt of
gratitude for its statehood to the fierce men from
Tennessee.
• Before the Alamo fell, 33 Tennesseans, the largest
number of defenders provided by any state—nearly four times as many as from Texas—kept Mexican General Santa Anna’s overwhelming army at bay for 13 days against unbelievable odds.
• On March 6, 1836, the brave Tennessee Volunteers and the other Alamo defenders were overrun and breathed their last.
• However, the crucial days the Volunteers slowed down the Mexican army gave another Tennessean, Sam Houston, enough time to gallop through Texas raising an army to defend what would become the Lone Star State. This army defeated Santa Anna in no small part because of the contributions of Tennessee’s Volunteers.
• Texas was granted statehood in 1845—51 years after the University of Tennessee was founded (1794).
 
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bleedingTNorange said:
As long as he can hold up defensively against them then you are absolutely correct, he could feast.
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I’m very curious about how Texas will try to defend Uros. If he’s getting entry passes deep into the lane and they don’t do much to help with double teams, he will feast offensively. If they do help and double down, he’s become pretty adept at passing back out to the open man.
 
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The real UT is the University of Tennessee because that University was created before the University of Texas.
 
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The real UT is the University of Tennessee because that University was created before the University of Texas.
 
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