DETROIT (AP) — By the time all the scrapping and scratching and diving on the floor was over, it felt like a shame that both those teams, and both those players, weren’t moving onto the Final Four. Just don’t expect Purdue to feel bad about it. Boilermakers big man Zach Edey went for a career …
DETROIT − Santiago Vescovi is out with the flu as Tennessee basketball faces Creighton in the Sweet 16 on Friday. Vescovi did not practice Thursday with the Vols at Little Caesars Arena. Vols coach Rick Barnes indicated Vescovi was ill but he expected that Vescovi would play when No. 2-seeded Tennessee (26-8) faces No. 3 …
NASHVILLE − Tennessee basketball opened the postseason by playing its worst game of the season Friday and that’s the way it’ll go into the NCAA Tournament. The Vols couldn’t shoot, couldn’t stop Mississippi State in the SEC Tournament, and couldn’t keep themselves in the chase for the final No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament. …
Tennessee basketball’s dreams of being a No. 1 seed were riding high entering Saturday. Then Kentucky and Reed Sheppard walked into Thompson-Boling Arena at Food City Center with a 3-point flamethrower and left those dreams of a top spot uncertain. Dalton Knecht had his first career 40-point game in his final home game for the …
Tennessee basketball is playing another ranked team but this time it is in Knoxville. The No. 13 Vols (5-3) host No. 18 Illinois (7-1) on Saturday (noon ET, CBS) at Thompson-Boling Arena at Food City Center in the first game of a home-and-home series. UT will play at Illinois in December 2024. Tennessee is playing …