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Vols Hoops Vibe Check and Keys to Beating Kentucky

The vibes right now with this year’s basketball team are good. In fact, prior to Tuesday evening, everything — basketball related — was going quite well for Rick Barnes and Tennessee. After losing three straight to Purdue, Kansas, and North Carolina earlier in the season where the next game felt less competitive than the one before, the vibes were terrible. It felt as if all the bad things from the previous two seasons had multiplied while the defense got marginally worse than their record-setting performances a season ago. However, the man comes around. Dalton Knecht has been a godsend for this program, an injection of offense, an ever growing defender.