The Official #1 Tennessee vs. Miami Game Thread, 6:30 PM ET, ESPN

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#1 Tennessee Volunteers: 8-0 (0-0 SEC)
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Miami Hurricanes: 3-6 (0-1 ACC)
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GAME 9 | TENNESSEE vs. MAMI - Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024 | 6:30 p.m. ET | New York, N.Y. | Madison Square Garden (19,500)


Line: UT -15.5
O/U: 145.5

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Miami Game Notes



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THE MATCHUP

• This is the fifth game between Miami and Tennessee, with each one at a different location. They have played on each team's campus once, as well as in San Juan, P.R., and Montgomery, Ala.
• After going 15-17 (6-14) in 2023- 24, the Hurricanes placed sixth in this year's ACC preseason poll.
• Miami is led by graduate student guard Nijel Pack, a Preseason First Team All-ACC designee averaging 14.1 ppg and 4.6 apg.
• Tennessee is 124-101 against the current ACC membership and has defeated all but one of them, Notre Dame (0-1), at least once.
• Rick Barnes is 84-77 versus current ACC schools, including 14-5 at UT, 7-1 in the last four years (2021-25) and 3-0 this season.
• Miami's Jalen Blackmon (21.3) and Tennessee's Chaz Lanier (19.7) were the top two scorers in the ASUN last year and both were First Team All-ASUN picks.
• Tennessee is 0-2 in the Jimmy V Classic, falling to Virginia on 12/19/00 in East Rutherford, N.J., and to Texas Tech in overtime on 12/7/21 at Madison Square Garden.
 
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NEWS & NOTES

• Tennessee is one of eight unbeaten DI teams, alongside Drake, Florida, Loyola Chicago, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, UC Irvine and Utah State. Only UT is also undefeated in women's basketball.
• The only two active DI head coaches on the Naismith Hall of Fame ballot for their coaching careers, Rick Barnes and Jim Larrañaga each place top-six among active DI coaches in wins. They are also both top- three among active DI coaches in games coached, total seasons as a DI coach and consecutive seasons as a DI coach. They are two of the only six coaches all-time to win 100-plus games at three DI schools with 200-plus at two. More can be found on Pages 18-19.
• Barnes and Larrañaga each spent time as both an assistant at Davidson and as the head coach at George Mason. In addition, Barnes is a former head coach at Providence, while Larrañaga played there. They have squared off just once before, an 81-79 home win by Providence over Bowling Green on 11/25/89.
• Tennessee is 7-12 all-time at MSG, including 1-3 versus St. John's and 6-9 in neutral-site matchups. It is 5-4 in the NIT (1-0 versus St. John's), 2-7 in the regular season (0-3 versus St. John's) and 0-1 in the NCAA Tournament.
• Zakai Zeigler is from Wyandanch, N.Y., a Long Island town roughly 38 miles from Manhattan. This is UT's fourth game in New York (third at MSG) in his career, but he missed one due to injury.
• In Tennessee's first eight games, it led for 303:50 of a possible 320 minutes and trailed for only 6:03.
• Through eight outings, UT's largest deficit is three points. Meanwhile, it has held a lead of at least 26 points in each game and won all of them by 15-plus.
• The Vols are seeking their seventh 9-0 start and first since 2000-01.
• Tennessee's 179 wins over the last eight years (2017-25) rank No. 10 nationally, alongside Saint Mary's. Only Gonzaga (220), Houston (213), Kansas (198), Duke (191), Purdue (189), San Diego State (183), Virginia (181), Liberty (180) and Saint Mary's (180) have more.
 
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HIGH-CALIBER COMPANY

• Tennessee and Kansas are the only two schools to earn an AP top-five ranking in each of the last four seasons (2021-25). Only two others, Arizona and Purdue, entered 2024-25 with a three-year streak.
• The Volunteers are one of only four teams to reach the AP top six in each of the past five seasons, alongside Alabama, Houston and Kansas.
• UT is one of just five programs to reach the AP top six in at least six of the last seven seasons (2018- 25), alongside Duke, Gonzaga, Kansas and Kentucky. Those are also the only five schools to enter the AP top five in at least five different years during that stretch.
• The Vols are among only seven teams to reach the No. 1 spot in the AP Poll in at least two of the last seven seasons (2018-25), joining Baylor, Duke, Gonzaga, Houston, Kansas and Purdue.
• Over that same seven-year stretch (2018-25), UT is also one of seven teams to claim an AP top-two position in at least three seasons, alongside Baylor, Connecticut, Duke, Gonzaga, Kansas and Purdue.
• Tennessee is one of just six schools to earn an AP top-20 ranking in each of the past eight years (2017- 25), alongside Duke, Gonzaga, Kansas, Kentucky and North Carolina. Just two others, Houston and Purdue, have even reached the AP top 25 in each of those seasons.
• Additionally, over the last three seasons (2022- 25), the Vols are one of just five teams to reach the AP top two in multiple seasons, joining Alabama, Connecticut, Kansas and Purdue.
 
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These game notes reinforce the level of success we’ve enjoyed since CRB established his culture in the UT program. Going to hate to see his well deserved retirement and hope he stays in East TN and has some form of consultant role so his leadership can remain a part of the athletic department.
 
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walkenvol said:
These game notes reinforce the level of success we’ve enjoyed since CRB established his culture in the UT program. Going to hate to see his well deserved retirement and hope he stays in East TN and has some form of consultant role so his leadership can remain a part of the athletic department.
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Coach Barnes is after that one thing he has missed thus far …. A natty champion…. If he can pull it off this season. I say he go ahead retire ….if not , figure another 3’years least .
 
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Christian Lowe said:
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Oh man, can I just take a moment to emphastically express how much I do not miss those days.

We're in an era where Tennessee being #1 and playing in MSG isn't even a "man walks on moon" kind of special news article anymore. Just how Tennessee rolls right now. I can't get enough of it.
 
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Man, I love being ranked #1 but I also hate it.
Teams get so much more pumped up playing the #1 team in the country.
Having said that, I think we got this game no problem.
 
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