Dates: January 8, 2022 (in Nashville); January 26, 2022 (in Columbia)
Times: 11:00 AM on January 8 (ESPNU); 6:00 PM on January 26 (ESPNU)
Last year: 6-15 (4-12 SEC), 124th in KenPom
Tom’s Prediction: 12th in SEC
Head Coach
Hiring Frank Martin away from Kansas State, where he’d gone 117-54 and made four NCAA Tournaments in five years including an Elite Eight run in 2010, was seen as a coup at the time, but then so was hiring Dave Odom away from Wake Forest in 2001, and so was hiring National Coach of the Year Eddie Fogler away from Vanderbilt in 1993 (after Bobby Cremins took the job and then backed out two days later.