Rick Barnes is usually pretty good about scheduling his team a tough out-of-conference slate. This season, the Vols played Villanova, North Carolina, Colorado, Texas Tech and still have Arizona and a homecoming with the Texas Longhorns still to come. We were scheduled to play Memphis, too, but the Tigers backed out, allegedly, due to COVID concerns.
Arizona’s up next, and since the Vols almost never play those Wildcats — the one and only other time the two teams faced off was a 73-72 Arizona win back in 1998 — I thought this would be a good time for another Q&A.