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#1 Tennessee Volunteers: 14-1 (1-1 SEC)
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Texas Longhorns: 11-4 (0-2 SEC)
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GAME 16 | TENNESSEE at TEXAS - Saturday, Jan. 11, 2025 | 6 p.m. ET | Austin, Texas | Moody Center (10,763)


Line: UT -4.5
O/U: 135.5

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THE MATCHUP

• Tennessee is 5-4 all-time against Texas, including 4-2 over the last six matchups. This is the fourth straight season the sides have met—the last matchup before that was 11/24/07—and the first SEC affair ever between the two.
• Rick Barnes, the head coach at Texas for 17 years (1998-2015), is 4-3 in games between Texas and Tennessee. He went 2-2 with the Longhorns and is 2-1 with the Vols.
• Texas head coach Rodney Terry worked for Rick Barnes as an assistant from 2002-11, while assistant coach Frank Haith did so from 2001-04 and fellow assistant Chris Ogden did so from 2008- 16 (seven years at Texas, one at Tennessee). All three are among the 13 former Barnes assistants who have become head coaches.
• New SEC school Texas was picked seventh in the preseason poll after going 21-13 (9-9 B12) last year and losing to Tennessee in the NCAA Tournament Round of 32.
• Freshman guard Tre Johnson, the SEC's third-leading scorer behind Chaz Lanier and Johni Broome, paces Texas at 18.4 ppg.
 
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NEWS & NOTES

• The Volunteers are 14-3 all-time at No. 1 in the AP Poll, including 13-2 in Rick Barnes' tenure (6-1 in 2024-25, 7-1 in 2018-19). In addition, Tennessee is 28-5 all- time as an AP top-three team, including 24-3 under Barnes.
• Barnes is one of seven coaches (four active) to lead two DI schools to an AP No. 1 ranking. He guided Texas to its first and only spots atop the poll from Jan. 11- 24, 2010, posting a 2-2 record.
• Barnes is one of 19 coaches all- time—just six are active—to lead two DI schools to win 200-plus games at two DI schools. He achieved the feat at Tennessee (216) and Texas (402).
• UT director of sports performance Garrett Medenwald spent three years at Texas working for Barnes before coming to Tennessee with him. He was a graduate manager from 2012-14 and a strength intern in 2014-15.
• UT assistant coach Bryan Lentz worked for Barnes at Texas for four years, serving as the special assistant/video coordinator from 2010-14.
• Tennessee has two freshman walk-ons from Austin. Campbell Duncan attended Anderson, while Gavin Paull went to Westlake. Kris Clack, who played for Rick Barnes at Texas, graduated from Anderson. Brad Buckman and Chris Mihm, also among Barnes' Texas players, attended Westlake.
• Tennessee (Chaz Lanier/Zakai Zeigler) and Rutgers (Ace Bailey/ Dylan Harper) are the only schools with two Wooden Award Midseason Top 25 List selections.
• UT has won at least two of its first three SEC games in five of the last six years. The outlier is 2021-22.
• Igor Miličić Jr., is averaging 10.9 rpg over the last nine games, with nine-plus boards in seven of them.
• UT's 24.6 3P% defense is 1.8 better than second-place Southeast Missouri State (26.4). That is the same gap as second to No. 17.
The Volunteers' 185 wins over the last eight seasons (2017-25) rank co-seventh nationally, alongside Saint Mary's. Only Gonzaga (226), Houston (219), Kansas (202), Duke (198), Purdue (193) and San Diego State (187) possess more.
 
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WINNING WAYS

• Over the last eight seasons (2017-25), Tennessee paces all SEC programs in total wins (185), plus is tied for first in postseason victories (18) and sits a close second in overall winning percentage (.734). In that span, UT has three SEC titles (2018 and 2024 regular seasons, 2022 tournament).
• In that same eight-year stretch, the Vols are one of only three SEC teams with an overall winning percentage above even .660, alongside Auburn (.736) and Kentucky (.703).
• In SEC play over the same eight-year period, Tennessee (87-40; .685) is second in the league, behind Kentucky (88-39; .693), in both victories and winning percentage. Only Auburn (83-45; .648) and Alabama (79-48; .622) are above even 70 wins.
• Over just the last four seasons (2021-25), the Volunteers own a 93-29 (.762) overall record. That is good for the most victories and the second-best winning percentage (just .0004 behind Auburn) in the SEC over that span.
• In that same four-year stretch, Tennessee (40-16; .714) is tied with Kentucky for the best record in conference play among SEC teams.
 
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POLL VOLS

• Tennessee has appeared in every AP Poll since the 2021-22 preseason rankings, a total of 69 releases in a row, vastly surpassing the prior program record of 37 from March 1999 to Feb. 2001. The Volunteers have been in the top 10 in 39 of those 69 releases, including the top five on 19 occasions.
• UT's 69-week streak is the third-longest in the country, behind only Houston (95) and Kansas (74). No other team is at even 50-plus, while the closest in the SEC, Kentucky (31), is 38 weeks behind.
• Dating to the 2020-21 preseason poll, UT has made 83 of 86 releases (not the final three of 2020-21), with 45 top-10 spots and still 19 in the top five.
• UT reached No. 1 in the nation this season, peaked at fourth last year, ascended to second in 2022-23, ended 2021-22 at a season-best fifth and placed as high as sixth in 2020-21.
• The Vols, who hit No. 1 in 2018-19, have been in the AP top six in six of the past seven years (2018-25). It hit that mark an equal six times in program history before Rick Barnes' tenure (2007-08, 2000-01, 1999-2000, 1969-70, 1967-68 and 1958-59).
• UT has been in the AP top five in five of the last seven seasons (2018-25). It achieved that feat an equal five times before Barnes' arrival (each of the above six seasons except for 1969-70).
• The 2024-25 campaign marks the eighth in a row Tennessee has earned an AP top-20 ranking. The prior such program record was seven straight seasons (1966-67 to 1972-73).
• UT's 15-week AP top-10 streak (12/18/23 to 4/9/24) to close the 2023-24 campaign was the second- longest in program history. Three of the Vols' five all-time double-digit streaks have come since 2018- 19 under Rick Barnes.
 
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POLL VOLS

• Tennessee has appeared in every AP Poll since the 2021-22 preseason rankings, a total of 69 releases in a row, vastly surpassing the prior program record of 37 from March 1999 to Feb. 2001. The Volunteers have been in the top 10 in 39 of those 69 releases, including the top five on 19 occasions.
• UT's 69-week streak is the third-longest in the country, behind only Houston (95) and Kansas (74). No other team is at even 50-plus, while the closest in the SEC, Kentucky (31), is 38 weeks behind.
• Dating to the 2020-21 preseason poll, UT has made 83 of 86 releases (not the final three of 2020-21), with 45 top-10 spots and still 19 in the top five.
• UT reached No. 1 in the nation this season, peaked at fourth last year, ascended to second in 2022-23, ended 2021-22 at a season-best fifth and placed as high as sixth in 2020-21.
• The Vols, who hit No. 1 in 2018-19, have been in the AP top six in six of the past seven years (2018-25). It hit that mark an equal six times in program history before Rick Barnes' tenure (2007-08, 2000-01, 1999-2000, 1969-70, 1967-68 and 1958-59).
• UT has been in the AP top five in five of the last seven seasons (2018-25). It achieved that feat an equal five times before Barnes' arrival (each of the above six seasons except for 1969-70).
• The 2024-25 campaign marks the eighth in a row Tennessee has earned an AP top-20 ranking. The prior such program record was seven straight seasons (1966-67 to 1972-73).
• UT's 15-week AP top-10 streak (12/18/23 to 4/9/24) to close the 2023-24 campaign was the second- longest in program history. Three of the Vols' five all-time double-digit streaks have come since 2018- 19 under Rick Barnes.
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