Tennessee basketball scored its first big win of the season in The Bahamas. The Vols defeated the No. 18 ranked Purdue Boilermakers 78-75 in overtime.
With the win, Rick Barnes’s team moves to 3-0 on the year while Purdue falls to 4-1. Tennessee will advance to the next round to face the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers or the No. 5 ranked Villanova Wildcats.
Now, three games into the season, Tennessee already has a major resume-building win. And they have a chance for two more, but even if they lose the next two, it’s nothing to be ashamed of.