KenPom preseason ranking for each opponent:
Presbyterian #341
High Point #277
Purdue #17
Mercer #111
Georgia Tech #44
Lipscomb #142
North Carolina #13
Furman #135
Wake Forest #57
Arkansas #56
Auburn #46
Kentucky #2
Vanderbilt #38
Texas A&M #15
Missouri #81
South Carolina #48
Vanderbilt #38
Iowa State #34
LSU #91
Ole Miss #52
Kentucky #2
Alabama #23
South Carolina #48
Georgia #63
Florida #8
Ole Miss #52
Mississippi State #59
Georgia #63
23 games against preseason top 100, with a chance for 2 more in B4A, for comparison last years Vanderbilt team had 26. That was the first team to lose 15 games and get an at-large bid into the NCAAT, in huge part because of their SOS & RPI...it looks like Tennessee could very well have just as tough of a slate this season. There are only 2 sub 150 teams on the schedule, that is pretty damn crazy.