Tennessee Basketball on Monday stayed put at No. 20 within the new Related Press High 25 and dropped three spots to No. 23 within the up to date Coaches Ballot on Monday afternoon, after being off final week.
The Vols, who dropped seven spots to No. 20 in each polls final week, haven’t performed since shedding 75-62 to Illinois on December 6 at Bridgestone Enviornment in Nashville. It was the third straight loss, after shedding to Kansas in Las Vegas on November 26 and 62-60 at Syracuse on December 2.
Tennessee (7-3) hosts No. 11 Louisville (8-1) on Tuesday in a 7 p.m. Japanese Time begin on ESPN at Meals Metropolis Middle. Louisville beat Memphis 99-73 at dwelling on Saturday and beat Indiana 87-78 in Indianapolis on December 6. The one lack of the season for the Cardinals was at Arkansas, 89-80, within the ACC-SEC Problem on December 3.
The Vols began the two-year home-and-home with Louisville with a 77-55 win on the KFC Yum! Middle final season.
Tennessee has been ranked for 87 straight weeks
Tennessee has now been ranked for 87 straight weeks within the AP High 25, courting again to the primary ballot of the 2021-22 season. It’s the second-longest rating streak in faculty basketball, trailing solely Houston’s run of 113 straight weeks.
Tennessee has been ranked within the top-10 50 instances through the ongoing streak with 18 straight top-10 rankings to shut final season. The Vols have been ranked within the top-5 23 instances, together with 11 instances final season. The bottom rating through the streak was No. 24 in January 2022.
Rick Barnes has had his Tennessee Basketball group ranked within the high 25 141 instances, courting again to 2017-18.
Tennessee was ranked No. 18 within the AP High 25 preseason ballot and No. 17 within the preseason Coaches Ballot. The Vols dropped to No. 20 within the Week 2 and Week 3 AP High 25 polls, then moved as much as No. 17 and No. 13, earlier than the drop again right down to No. 20 final week.
The Coaches Ballot moved Tennessee right down to No. 18 within the Week 2 replace, then as much as No. 17, No. 16 and No. 13 earlier than the autumn to No. 20.
Tennessee beat then-No. 3 Houston 76-73 on November 25 in Las Vegas, after beating Rutgers 85-60 a day earlier. The Vols led Kansas by 12 factors with quarter-hour left within the Gamers Period third-place sport, earlier than the Jayhawks rallied to win.
Vols ranked No. 18 in KenPom, No. 35 in NET
The season began with 5 straight wins in purchase video games, with Tennessee beating Mercer, Northern Kentucky, North Florida, Rice, Tennessee State, Rutgers and Houston.
After 5 straight video games away from dwelling, the Vols have three dwelling video games, internet hosting Gardner Webb (Sunday) and South Carolina State (December 30) after the Louisville sport. SEC play begins at Arkansas on January 3.
Tennessee is ranked No. 18 total within the KenPom.com scores. The Vols are No. 13 in adjusted defensive effectivity (96.0) and No. 39 in adjusted offensive effectivity (119.1).
The NET has Tennessee at No. 35, dropping 24 spots from final week’s first NET rating replace of the season. Tennessee is 1-2 in Quad 1 video games, 0-1 in Quad 2, 2-0 in Quad 3 and 4-0 in Quad 4.
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