For the third time in four seasons, the Gonzaga Bulldogs face the Tennessee Volunteers. Mark Few and the Zags got the best of Tennessee head coach Rick Barnes in his first two seasons on the job, but Barnes has his best team since arriving in Knoxville and will be hoping they’re up to the job of knocking off the top team in the country.
Tennessee has had a full week to prepare for Gonzaga, and hasn’t played a quality opponent since suffering its only loss of the season in overtime to the Kansas Jayhawks at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, NY on Black Friday.