Well here we are. With four games left, Tennessee basketball has a 15-12 record and is squarely on the bubble to reach the NCAA Tournament.
Most educated people would believe that Rick Barnes’s team right now is out of the tournament and has work to do. Based on our bracketology story from this morning, that is clearly the case. Three of the four main ones have the Vols outside of the tournament, and they have dropped from nearly in the Top 35 to now out of the Top 50 of the RPI.
But of their final four games, two are against Top 50 RPI teams, the Vanderbilt Commodores and South Carolina Gamecocks, another is against a Top 100 RPI team and fellow bubble team, the Alabama Crimson Tide, and the other is against the LSU Tigers, who will kill the Vols’ schedule strength.