The Official #6 [2] Tennessee vs. #11 [3] Creighton Game Thread, 10:09 PM ET, TBS/truTV

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Men's Basketball Championship - Midwest Region - Sweet 16


#6 [2] Tennessee Volunteers: 26-8 (14-4 SEC)
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#11 [2] Creighton Bluejays: 25-9 (14-6 BE)
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GAME 35 | TENNESSEE vs. CREIGHTON - Friday, March 29, 2024 | 9:59 p.m. ET | Detroit, Mich. | Little Caesara Arena (20,332)


Line: UT -3.5
O/U: 146.5

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Creighton Game Notes


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THE MATCHUP

• In the lone prior meeting between the two sides, Tennessee notched a 34-28 home win over Creighton on 1/9/37. That was just the 29th season in program history at UT.
• Creighton, which tied for second place in the BIG EAST, has its ninth straight 20-win season and is in the Sweet 16 for the third time in four years.
• Senior guard Baylor Scheierman, a Third Team All-American, paces Creighton at 18.3 ppg and 9.1 rpg.
• Scheierman and UT guard Dalton Knecht are two of the five finalists for the Julius Erving Award.
• UT is 31-27 all-time against current BIG EAST schools. It owns a 3-0 record in such NCAA Tournament games, possessing victories over Buter (2008), Connecticut (2000) and Marquette (1983).
• Tennessee and Creighton are two of the seven teams making back- to-back Sweet 16 trips, alongside Alabama, Connecticut, Gonzaga, Houston and San Diego State.
• The Volunteers are seeking their second Elite Eight bid (2010), while the Bluejays are looking for their third (1941 and 2023).
 
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NEWS & NOTES

• Tennessee won the SEC regular season crown for the 11th time, notching its sixth outright title.
• The Volunteers are 8-5 in the NCAA Tournament under Rick Barnes, who is tied for the most such wins by a UT head coach.
• UT is 27-26 all-time in 26 NCAA Tournament trips, with this the first time it has ever owned a winning record in the event. The Vols are 2-5 in second games, 7-3 as a No. 2 seed and 0-2 against No. 3 seeds. This will be their first postseason game in Michigan.
• UT is one of 14 teams with seven Sweet 16 bids in the last 17 NCAA Tournaments (since 2006-07). It joins North Carolina (11), Duke (10), Gonzaga (10), Kansas (nine plus one vacated), Gonzaga (nine), Kentucky (eight), UCLA (eight), Arizona (seven plus one vacated), Michigan (seven), Purdue (seven), Syracuse (seven), Wisconsin (seven) and Xavier (seven).
• This is the second time UT has earned back-to-back Sweet 16 berths, joining 2007 and 2008.
• UT went 4-2 in the regular season against the other Sweet 16 teams.
• UT has 26 wins for the fourth time in the last seven years under Rick Barnes; it hit that tally thrice before his 2015 arrival. UT has 170 victories since 2017-18, co-10th in DI and co-fifth among teams at the Power Six level that entire time.
• Barnes, a Jim Phelan National Coach of the Year Award finalist, hit 200 wins at UT in the Round of 64 victory against Saint Peter's, becoming the 19th coach to reach that mark at two DI schools.
• With three steals in the win over Texas, Santiago Vescovi upped his career total to 212, passing Vincent Yarbrough (1998-2002) for the most in UT history. He owns 15 steals in NCAA Tournament play, tied with Chris Lofton (2004-08) for the UT record.
• Zakai Zeigler has 24 assists in NCAA Tournament action, three behind Bert Bertelkamp (1976- 80) for the school record.
• Dalton Knecht, one of four Naismith Trophy finalists, is tied with Allan Houston (717 in 1991- 92) for third on UT's single-season scoring list and seven shy of Dale Ellis (724 in 1982-83) for second.
 
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VARIETY OF VICTORIES

• The Volunteers have 26 wins thus far, their seventh time ever hitting that mark. Four of those campaigns have come in the last seven years under Rick Barnes.
• Tennessee had 24 regular season triumphs, tying the 1999-2000 season for the third-most in program history. It won 28 in 2007-08 and 27 in 2018-19. Two of UT's top four marks all-time are under Barnes.
• The Vols finished with eight true road wins this season, matching 2017-18 and 1999-2000 for the program's second-highest total ever. Only the 2007- 08 team logged more, totaling nine.
• UT's 14 SEC victories put them in a five-way tie for their fourth-most ever. It claimed 16 such decisions in 1976-77, as well as 15 in both 2018-19 and 1966-67.
 
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Hope Santi is well and no one else gets it. Alabama is in elite economic get. We HAVE to find a way to get there tonight!! I trust Coach to make the right decisions for tonight. GO VOLS!!
 
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