Live Updates: No. 10 Tennessee vs. No. 1 Alabama
No. 1 Alabama (22-3, 12-0 SEC) visits No. 10 Tennessee (19-6, 8-4) Wednesady as the Vols look to bounce back form the back-to-back losses to Vanderbilt and Missouri. The game is scheduled for a 7 p.m. Eastern Time start on ESPN2.
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Tennessee lost on two buzzer-beating shots last week, losing 66-65 Wednesday at Vanderbilt and 86-85 at home on Saturday against Missouri. Wednesday’s game has long been sold-out and will feature a checkerboard capacity crowd.
It’s the 20th time Tennessee has played a No. 1-ranked team and the first time since Gonzaga in 2018, a 76-73 win in Phoenix in the Jerry Colangelo Classic. The Vols are 5-14 overall and 2-4 at home against top-ranked opponents. The last win over a No. 1 in Knoxville came in 2010 against Kansas.
Tennessee vs. Alabama: How to watch, stream, listen
Tipoff Time: 7 p.m. ET, Wednesday
Location: Thompson-Boling Arena
TV: ESPN2
Streaming: ESPN App or WatchESPN.com
Radio: WNML-FM 99.1 in Knoxville. The Vol Network radio broadcast (Bob Kesling – play-by-play – Bert Bertelkamp, analyst) can be heard on local affiliates across the state of Tennessee.
A closer look at Alabama
Head coach Nate Oats is 83-39 in his fourth season at Alabama, with a 45-21 record in SEC play. He went 16-15 in his first season in Tuscaloosa, in 2019-20, then went 26 games and took the Crimson Tide to the Sweet Sixteen in 2020-21 after winning both the SEC regular-season championship and the SEC Tournament title.
Alabama finished 19-14 last season and was eliminated in the first round of the NCAA Tournament by Notre Dame.
Oats was 96-43 in four seasons at Buffalo before being hired away at Alabama. It was Tennessee athletic director Danny White, then working as the AD at Buffalo, that promoted Oats from assistant coach to head coach, replacing Bobby Hurley after Hurley was hired at Arizona State.
Alabama is led by five-star freshman Brandon Miller, who averages 18.8 points and 8.2 rebounds per game. He’s shooting 45.5 percent from the 3-point line and 42.7 percent from the 3-point line while playing 33.0 minutes per game.
Miller, out of Antioch, Tenn., was recruited heavily by Tennessee before ultimately picking Alabama, where his father played football.
Alabama lost to UConn in Portland in November and to Gonzaga in Birmingham in December. The Tide then won nine straight before losing 93-69 at Oklahoma in the Big 12-SEC Challenge on January 28. Since then, the Tide has bounced back with four straight wins by an average of 25.7 points per game.
