Vols Will Be Ranked #1 in the Nation Come Monday

#27
#27
Volintheswamp said:
2024: #1 National Championship winning baseball team, #1 ranked basketball team, #6 ranked (hopefully higher after this weekend) football team. Has any other D1 school had this type of success in a single year?
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Add women’s basketball undefeated with new coach - not there, but get the feeling the Lady Vols will be back in the elite mix soon.
 
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Someone called this team workmanlike and that fits the bill. They just show up and do their thing.

We haven't played an elite team yet (Baylor was good but were off). However, we have dominated good competition. This team has looked like they could be the best team Barnes has had to date but we will need to wait and see. It doesn't matter where we are at now, it matters in late March (and if we can make it to April).
 
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Volintheswamp said:
2024: #1 National Championship winning baseball team, #1 ranked basketball team, #6 ranked (hopefully higher after this weekend) football team. Has any other D1 school had this type of success in a single year?
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Didn’t Florida win basketball and football championships the same year? No clue about baseball I don’t even know if they have a baseball team
 
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VolsSportsFan said:
I feel like we were already there. Syracuse was balling out even without a star player.
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It almost felt inevitable that the team having trouble finding the hole was going to shoot pretty well without their star. It just seems to work that way sometimes. It was good to blow them out, regardless.
 
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volbound1700 said:
Someone called this team workmanlike and that fits the bill. They just show up and do their thing.

We haven't played an elite team yet (Baylor was good but were off). However, we have dominated good competition. This team has looked like they could be the best team Barnes has had to date but we will need to wait and see. It doesn't matter where we are at now, it matters in late March (and if we can make it to April).
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Given the difficulty of the SEC this year I think it worked out well not to have a crazy tough OOC schedule. We will have plenty of quad 1 opportunities in conf.
 
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Houstonvol1 said:
Given the difficulty of the SEC this year I think it worked out well not to have a crazy tough OOC schedule. We will have plenty of quad 1 opportunities in conf.
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Our OOC isn't necessarily easy, it just doesn't have a Duke, Houston, or Iowa State type team. Baylor was a very good win and I think the win at Louisville is going to pay dividends for us.
 
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Gonzaga or ISU. Both will have a good win this week. ISU over Marquette and GU over UK Saturday night.
 
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volbound1700 said:
Our OOC isn't necessarily easy, it just doesn't have a Duke, Houston, or Iowa State type team. Baylor was a very good win and I think the win at Louisville is going to pay dividends for us.
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At the moment Pomeroy puts our strength of schedule at 188. That’s due to rise with games against Miami and Illinois, of course. I don’t think anyone can argue we were dodging a challenge with away games at Louisville and Illinois, the Bahamas tournament, and the ACC Challenge, but the poor state of the ACC has made those teams worse than we were expecting. Half of our opponents won national titles since I started watching in the 90s.
 
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