We have reached the SEC Tournament. And morale for Tennessee basketball is at an all-time low.
Okay, that’s unfair to Rick Barnes in his first year as head coach of the Vols. It’s not his fault he inherited a team with no inside game and lost his best player to a season-ending injury as his team was flirting with a .500 record.
But after losing four straight games, the Vols now enter the tournament 13-18 and as a No. 12 seed facing no other than the Auburn Tigers, and head coach Bruce Pearl in his second year.