The Volunteers will make the trip to Nashville.
After a quick trip home the Volunteers are back on the road this afternoon. Tennessee will head west down I-40 to Nashville to take on the Vanderbilt Commodores at the always tricky Memorial Gymnasium.
Vandy is 14-3 on the year in the first season under new head coach Mark Byington. The ‘Dores are 2-2 in league play so far, dropping games to Mississippi State and Missouri while beating LSU and South Carolina.
“They’re very aggressive,” Rick Barnes said of Vanderbilt. “They create a lot of havoc. A really heavy, heavy gap team that they really go for steals. They really turn you over. And I’m impressed with what he’s done. I really am. And I’m not surprised just the little bit I’ve been around him, you can tell he believes in what he wants to do and how he wants to play and being able to do what he’s done up to this point is really— he deserves a lot of credit for a lot of it.”
Vanderbilt is led by junior guard Jason Edwards, who averages 17 points per game. The North Texas transfer is shooting 37.5 percent from three-point range.
Tennessee ranks 5th in KenPom’s metric. Vanderbilt ranks 52nd. As we’ve seen before though, Memorial Gym can make quite the difference. Tennessee better be locked in this afternoon.
How to watch Tennessee vs. Vanderbilt
Location: Nashville, Tennessee
Time: 3:30 p.m. ET
TV Channel: SEC Network
Streaming: ESPN App
Odds: Tennessee -5