Tennesse Sports

Tennessee sports. When I say Tennessee sports, you
probably automatically think of football and the Volunteer
program that has had so much success in the past two
decades. You might also think about the NFL's Tennessee
Titans, still football. I'm willing to bet that most of you, if not
all of you don't think of basketball first. Well, maybe you
should. This Saturday night college basketball's biggest
game of the year is being played in the state, between two
teams from the state. BSN #2 Memphis is hosting BSN #1
Tennessee. And if you're going by the national media
polls, those ranks are the same only reversed. This game
is HUGE and may determine if one of these teams falls out
of getting a #1 seed in next month's NCAA tournament. I
expect this game to be a hard fought, close, down to the
wire contest with it being anyone's game to win. The
winner of this game, in my opinion is the clear #1 team in
the country and has a very deserving shot at earning the
#1 overall seed for the tournament. Between them, both
teams have a combined record of 50-2 this season. Both
teams are averaging over 80 points a game and allowing
less than 70 a game. Memphis is on a winning streak of
26 straight and the Volunteers of Tennessee have won
their last 8. Going back to 2001, Memphis hasn't missed
an NCAA tournament and hasn't won fewer than 22 games
in any single season, winning 33 games each of the past
two years. Tennessee has won at least 22 games in each
of the past two years and made the tournament both times
as well. This is serious basketball, and it's not being
played in North Carolina, like one might think when you say
#1 is playing #2. So when these teams face off this
Saturday, think about this again, Tennessee sports......