No. 2 seed Tennessee and top-seeded Houston will meet Sunday afternoon inside Lucas Oil Stadium, the winner advancing to the Final Four — and the coaches very much acted their age. Barnes is a septuagenarian,
Tennessee dominated a Kentucky team that beat it twice the regular season and stands one win away from the program's first Final Four.
Anytime they could, it felt like the Vols went out of their way to let the Cats know they were going to out-tough them on this night.
Is it Tennessee’s time at long last? Never a Final Four to savor, but so many heartbreaks to get over. And now back knocking at the Elite Eight door after rolling over Kentucky 78-65.
The Tennessee Volunteers advance to the Elite Eight after beating the Kentucky Wildcats in the Sweet Sixteen of March Madness The Tennessee Volunteers got the l
He’ll leave as one of the greatest Tennessee Volunteers ever. I love him. I love him to death," Vols coach Rick Barnes said of Zeiger.
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Tennessee dominated a Kentucky team that beat it twice the regular season and stands one win away from the program's first Final Four.
Rick Barnes has had a super impressive college basketball coaching career. The 70-year-old first became a head coach at George Mason for the 1987-88 season and has run a program every year since then.