It’s hard to base a schedule’s difficulty on a previous season’s success. But if you’re going to do that, you’re not going to find one more difficult that what Tennessee basketball has put together in the non-conference slate for 2019-2020.
Released on Monday, the Vols’ out-of-conference schedule was already brutal with the Emerald Coast Classic and the Kansas Jayhawks in the SEC/Big 12 challenge. That guaranteed them three games against NCAA Tournament teams, and if the Purdue Boilermakers beat the VCU Rams, it will be three against teams who made it to the second round and one against en elite 8 team.