The Official #12 Tennessee @ Louisville Game Thread, 12:00 PM ET, ACC Network

[YankeeVol]

#12 Tennessee Volunteers: 1-0 (0-0 SEC)

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Louisville Cardinals 1-0 (0-0 ACC)

GAME 2 | TENNESSEE at LOUISVILLE - Satuday, Nov. 9, 2024 | 12 p.m. ET | Louisville, Ky. | KFC Yum! Center (22,090)


Line: UT -1.5
O/U: 153.5

TV: ACC Network / Watch
Radio: Vol Network / Listen / Live Stats
Satellite Radio: SiriusXM: 137 & 192
Online: ESPN+

Louisville Game Notes

 

[YankeeVol]

THE MATCHUP

• This is the 21st meeting between the two schools, with Tennessee winning each of the first six between 1913 and 1922, but Louisville taking 12 of the past 14.
• The Volunteers went 1-11 versus the Cardinals from 1927 to 2008 before Rick Barnes led them to a 92-81 victory on 11/21/18 in the NIT Season Tip-Off in Brooklyn, N.Y., behind Grant Williams' 24 points.
• Tennessee and Louisville last met at a campus site on 1/22/05, with the Cardinals earning an 85-62 home victory.
• After going 8-24 (3-17) last season, Louisville, now under the direction of first-year head coach Pat Kelsey, was picked ninth in the ACC preseason poll.
• The Cardinals return just two total points from their 2023-24 roster, but added 16 newcomers, 15 of them transfers, in the offseason.
• Tennessee is 122-101 all-time against current ACC schools and has beat all but one of them, Notre Dame (0-1), at least once.
• Rick Barnes is 81-77 in his career versus current ACC programs, including 11-5 at Tennessee.

 

[YankeeVol]

CARDINAL CONNECTIONS

• Former Tennessee head coach Wade Houston, who led the Volunteers from 1989-94, is a Louisville alumnus who worked as an assistant for the Cardinals for 13 seasons, 1976-89, before coming to Rocky Top. Houston, who hails from nearby Alcoa, Tenn., was the first black head men's basketball coach in the SEC and, alongside two 1962 classmates, one of the first three black men's basketball players at Louisville.
• In March 2019, Rick Barnes instituted the Wade Houston Leadership Award, given to the team member who best exemplified leadership, a team- first approach and exemplary work ethic. Zakai Zeigler is the two-time reigning honoree.
• Allan Houston, Wade's son, is UT's all-time leading scorer with 2,801 points, second-most in SEC history. He is one of two—the other is fellow VFL Ernie Grunfeld— four-time First Team All-SEC choices in league history. Houston is among six UT letter winners from Louisville, as is 1952-53 team captain Hank Bertelkamp.

 

[YankeeVol]

NEWS & NOTES

• Located 240 miles apart, Louisville (third) and Tennessee (fifth) play in two of the five largest college basketball arenas in the country.
• Rick Barnes (203-101) is one win away from tying Don DeVoe (204- 137 from 1978-89) for second place on UT's all-time leaderboard.
• Tennessee is 5-2 in its last seven road openers under Rick Barnes.
• The 172 wins for Tennessee over the last eight years (2017-25) rank co-eighth nationally alongside Liberty and Saint Mary's. Only Gonzaga (214), Houston (209), Kansas (192), Duke (186), Purdue (183), San Diego State (178) and Virginia (177) have more.
• Tennessee, which claimed the outright SEC regular season title and made the Elite Eight in 2023- 24, finished 27-9. It marked the the third time in the last six years (2018-24) under Rick Barnes UT won 27-plus games. It hit that tally just twice before his arrival.
• The Volunteers finished fifth in KenPom, the Coaches Poll and AP Poll last season, setting a program best in the former two and tying the top mark in the latter.

 

[BernardKingGOAT]

Glad I have the ACC channel in my regular feed.

 

[SonOfGodVolforlife]

Is what’s his face still at Louisville. Or has he already transferred again

 

[walkenvol]

Glad I have the ACC channel in my regular feed.

If you have Uverse, it’s on 1610

 

[BernardKingGOAT]

If you have Uverse, it’s on 1610

We still have Dish plus streaming. 402 on Dish

 

[Thunder Good-Oil]

Is what’s his face still at Louisville. Or has he already transferred again

He transferred to NC State

 

[JCVol00]

Is what’s his face still at Louisville. Or has he already transferred again

Brandon Huntley-Hatfield? He is at nc state now

 

[chuckiepoo]

Brandon Huntley-Hatfield? He is at nc state now

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[Volfan1000]

Is what’s his face still at Louisville. Or has he already transferred again

BBH transferred to North Carolina State University.

 

[Volfan1000]

If you have Uverse, it’s on 1610

ACC Network is Channel 610 on UVerse.

I am glad I have that network to watch this game.

 

[therealitytheory]

YoutubeTV also carries the ACCN. Heh - this will be the 1st time I've spent more than a second on that channel.

 

[Just a VolinTears]

Let's feast at the Yum! Center

 

[31VFL]

Line is Louisville -2.5 now.

 

[SonOfGodVolforlife]

of course he did.

BBH transferred to North Carolina State University

 

[TheMookieMonster]

Line is Louisville -2.5 now.

Haven’t felt good about the game all week. I think we’re going to find out a lot about this team in one hour. Should be a really good barometer to figure out how far this team has to go.

 

[Chaz-Vol]

Vols two bigs playing less than 100%, team not meshing well yet, and at Louisville. I'd take them over us this early in the season

 

[TheMookieMonster]

Vols two bigs playing less than 100%, team not meshing well yet, and at Louisville. I'd take them over us this early in the season

Yeah. I think if this game was even in December, not early November, I’d probably be much more confident. True road game for a team that has a lot of new faces is concerning. I also just think Pat Kelsey is a great coach and is going to turn them around quickly. Brand new roster. It’s not the Louisville of the last 2 years under Payne.

 

[TheMookieMonster]

NOOOOOOOOOOO

 

[Thunder Good-Oil]

Hamer filling in for Bert. Bob is doing a double header.

 

[Thunder Good-Oil]

A white out at Yum.

 

[RAVOL]

Let's go Vols. Composure gets you a W today. In CHRIST Alone

 

[therealitytheory]

Here's hoping ZZ is on his game early..