After surviving the Colgate Raiders, Tennessee basketball gets a huge break in the second round of March Madness. There was the chance that they would have to play the Cincinnati Bearcats in Columbus, Ohio.
Cincinnati lost, however, to the Iowa Hawkeyes, so the Vols will play them in Columbus on Sunday instead. That No. 10 seed should be the only focus for Rick Barnes’s team at this moment. But for fans, there’s somewhere else to look.
Before that game, there will be a game on Saturday between the Purdue Boilermakers and the Villanova Wildcats. Whomever wins that game will advance to the Sweet Sixteen to face the winner between Tennessee and Iowa.