The Official #5 Tennessee vs. Vanderbilt Game Thread, 1:00 PM ET, SEC Network

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#5 Tennessee Volunteers: 20-5 (7-5 SEC)
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Vanderbilt Commodores: 17-7 (5-6 SEC)
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GAME 26 | TENNESSEE vs. VANDERBILT - Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025 | 1 p.m. ET | Knoxville, Tenn. | Food City Center (21,678)


Line: UT -12.5
O/U: 140.5

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Vanderbilt Game Notes

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THE MATCHUP

• UT's 131 wins over Vanderbilt are its most versus any foe. Georgia (100) is the only other school it has defeated triple-digit times.
• Since Food City Center opened in 1987-88, Tennessee is 28-9 at home against the Commodres, including 15-4 in the last 19 affairs.
• UT has seven straight home wins over Vanderbilt, by an average of 13.4 ppg. Last year, it won by 35.
• The Volunteers are 13-2 in their last 15 contests against Vanderbilt, since 1/9/18. Both defeats were one-point road setbacks (66-65 on 2/8/23 and 76-75 on 1/18/25).
• This is the 14th time in the last 16 series meetings, also dating to 1/9/18, Tennessee is ranked and Vanderbilt is not. It is the ninth time in that stretch, including the sixth in a row, UT is in the top 10.
• Ranked UT teams are 23-9 all- time against unranked Vanderbilt squads, including 15-3—all three losses are by one—since 2/3/01.
• Coming off a 9-23 (4-14) campaign in 2023-24, Vanderbilt placed No. 16 in the SEC preseason poll.
• Junior guard Jason Edwards leads Vanderbilt with 17.4 ppg.
 
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NEWS & NOTES

• Vanderbilt is the only team the Volunteers play at home in a five- game, 23-day stretch (Feb. 6-28).
• The Commodores are the first unranked SEC team visiting UT since 2/24/24, snapping an eight- game streak across two seasons.
• Over the past eight campaigns, all in the Rick Barnes era, UT is 27-9 (.750) in the second leg of regular season home-and-home series.
• Tennessee is 34-7 (.829) against in-state opposition under Rick Barnes, including 17-2 (.895) in its last 19 such games.
• The Volunteers have earned a top- 10 position in 31 of the 36 AP Poll releases over the last two seasons, including a top-eight spot in 27 of the last 30 releases.
• Igor Miličić Jr., is one of just five SEC players in the last 15 years (2010-25) to post at least 19 points, nine rebounds and four assists in a game three-plus times in a single season. The others are Auburn's Johni Broome (2024- 25), Texas A&M's Tyrece Radford (2023-24), Tennessee's Grant Williams (2018-19) and LSU's Ben Simmons (2015-16).
• UT's eight Quad 1 wins are tied for the second-most in the country, alongside Alabama and Kentucky. Only Auburn (13) has more.
• Zakai Zeigler has 651 assists, sixth-most in SEC history. He is five back of Georgia/Kentucky's Sahvir Wheeler (656 from 2019-23) for fifth and 13 behind Alabama's Terry Coner (664 from 1983-87) for fourth.
• Jahmai Mashack and Zakai Zeigler are each one victory away from becoming the seventh and eighth players to win 100 games at Tennessee.
• Felix Okpara (46) is four blocks away from the 13th 50-block season in UT history, while Chaz Lanier (84) is five made 3-pointers from No. 10 on the program's single-season leaderboard (89).
• Tennessee's 191 victories over the last eight seasons (2017-25) rank ninth in DI. Only Gonzaga (231), Houston (228), Kansas (208), Duke (206), Purdue (201), Saint Mary's (193), San Diego State (193) and Auburn (192) possess more. Drake (190) and Liberty (190) tie to round out the top 10.
 
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PARTICULARLY POTENT AT HOME

• Under Rick Barnes, Tennessee is 22-8 (.733) versus AP top-25 teams at Food City Center, including 17-2 (.895) in its last 19 such games (since 1/30/21).
• The Volunteers are 17-7 (.708) at home against AP top-20 teams in the Barnes era, including 13-2 (.867) in their last 15 such contests (since 1/30/21).
• UT has a 14-5 (.737) mark when hosting AP top-15 squads under Barnes, including a 12-2 (.857) record in its last 14 such affairs (since 1/30/21).
• Barnes has led the Vols to an 8-1 (.889) ledger at Food City Center versus AP top-10 teams, with seven consecutive wins (since 3/2/19).
• UT is a perfect 6-0 when hosting AP top-five teams in the Barnes era (all since 1/24/17). The six straight wins are an SEC record, per ESPN, surpassing the mark of five by Kentucky in 1978-84 and 1956-59.
• The Vols won 12 straight home games against AP top-25 foes from 1/30/21 to 2/28/24. That is an SEC record, per CBS Sports, and the longest in DI since Kansas had 17 straight from 1/11/14 to 2/13/17. Nine of those victories were versus top-15 foes, with five against the top 10 and three over top-five teams.
• Tennessee is 19-5 (.792) in AP top-25 home matchups under Barnes, including 13-5 (.722) with both teams in the top 20, 8-2 (.800) with both in the top 15 and 4-0 (1.000) with both in the top 10.
 
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What a novel concept on assembling a basketball roster totally made up of point guards? Cmon Vandy - you get all this athletics money from being a member of the SEC yet you can’t find a student intern to keep your athletic web pages accurate.
 
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