The Official #9 Tennessee vs. Texas A&M SEC Championship Game Thread, 1:00 PM ET, ESPN

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SEC Tournament - Final

#9 Tennessee Volunteers: 25-7 (14-4 SEC)

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Texas A&M Aggies: 23-11 (9-9 SEC)

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GAME 33 | TENNESSEE vs. TEXAS A&M - Sunday, March 13, 2022 | 1:01 p.m. ET | Amalie Arena (20,500)


Line: UT UT -6.5
O/U: 131.5


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BRACKET BREAKDOWN

• Tennessee leads its series with Texas A&M, 10-6, dating to 1951. The Aggies joined the SEC for the 2012-13 season. The programs have never met in the SEC Tournament.
• Tennessee won this season's lone meeting, 90-80, in Knoxville.
• Vol Network color analyst Bert Bertelkamp was a junior guard on the last UT squad to win the SEC Tournament (1979).
• The Vols have now reached the title game both times the SEC Tournament has been played in Tampa (2009 and 2022).
 
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LAYUP LINES

• Tennessee is making its 13th all-time appearance in the SEC Tournament championship game.
• Saturday's win over Kentucky was UT's 10th Quad 1 victory.
• Tennessee stands at No. 8 in the NCAA's latest NET ratings. Each of UT's seven losses are Quad 1.
• The Vols have faced 12 AP Top 25 opponents so far this season and own wins over the teams ranked Nos. 2, 4 and 5 in this week's poll.
• According to KenPom, the Vols rank third in the nation in adjusted defensive efficiency, allowing only 86.6 points per 100 possessions.
• Tennessee's scoring defense of 66.4 ppg in SEC play was the best in the league. The Vols have held nine of their last 11 SEC opponents to fewer than 65 points.
• Tennessee also led the SEC in assists per game during conference play (14.9 apg). The Vols are averaging 16.0 assists at this week's SEC Tournament.
• Through Tennessee's two SEC Tournament games, All-SEC point guard Kennedy Chandler leads the team in scoring with 15.0 points per game and owns a 2.67 assist/turnover ratio in a team-high 61 total minutes.
• Josiah-Jordan James is shooting 60 percent from 3-point range (6 for 10) during this SEC Tournament while averaging 13.0 points per game.
• All-SEC first-teamer Santiago Vescovi was the league's top 3-point shooter during SEC play, hitting at a .445 clip.
• Chandler's 2.16 steals per game rank 17th in Division I and second nationally among true freshmen.
• During SEC play, SEC All-Freshman teamers Chandler (2.24 spg) and Zakai Zeigler (2.22 spg) ranked second and third, respectively, in steals per game.
• Super senior John Fulkerson has now seen action in eight career wins over rival Kentucky.
 
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SEC TOURNAMENT HISTORY

• Tennessee is 72-56 (.563) in 60 all-time SEC Tournament appearances.
• The Vols own the third-best SEC Tournament winning percentage among league schools, trailing only Kentucky (.832) and Alabama (.565).
• Since the tournament was renewed in 1979, the Vols are 37-41 (.474).
• Tennessee has won the SEC Tournament four times, tying Florida for third-most among league schools. The Vols won the event in 1936, 1941, 1943 and 1979.
• UT has now reached the title game 13 times (third-most among league schools), most recently back-to-back in 2018 (St. Louis) and 2019 (Nashville).
• Tennessee has been the No. 2 seed four times previously (1979, 1982, 2012 and 2018).
• This is the second time Tampa has hosted the SEC Tournament (same venue as this year). As the East No. 1 seed in Tampa in 2009, Tennessee defeated Alabama and Auburn to advance to the championship game, where it fell to Mississippi State, 64-61.
• Tennessee's SEC Tournament record in Tampa is 4-1, and the Vols own a 4-2 SEC Tournament record in the state of Florida (0-1 in Orlando in 1990).
 
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IF IT WEREN'T FOR TENNESSEE, TEXAS WOULD BE "NORTH MEXICO"

• There can be no doubt Texas owes a great debt of gratitude for its statehood to the fierce men from Tennessee.
• Before the Alamo fell, 33 Tennesseans, the largest number of defenders provided by any state—nearly four times as many as from Texas—kept Mexican General Santa Anna's overwhelming army at bay for 13 days against unbelievable odds.
• On March 6, 1836, the brave Tennessee Volunteers and the other Alamo defenders were overrun and breathed their last.
• However, the crucial days the Volunteers slowed down the Mexican army gave another Tennessean, Sam Houston, enough time to gallop through Texas raising an army to defend what would become the Lone Star State. This army defeated Santa Anna in no small part because of the contributions of Tennessee's Volunteers.
 
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BARNES VERY FAMILIAR WITH A&M

• As a head coach, Rick Barnes has faced Texas A&M 39 times, compiling a 30-9 (.769) record.
• His Texas teams went 23-7 vs. the Aggies from 1999-2015, and he also led Clemson to a 2-0 record against A&M in the mid-90s.
• The only teams Barnes has faced more than the Aggies are Oklahoma (41 meetings) and Oklahoma State (40).
• Barnes once interviewed Aggies head coach Buzz Williams for an assistant coach position during Barnes' tenure as the head coach at Texas.
 
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TN has a chance to go 2-2 versus the big 4 from Texas. Then 3-2 after whoopin’ Baylor in the EE or FF. Well, maybe Houston makes it the Big 5. We can take care of them in the 2nd weekend of the NCAAT though.
 
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