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Where Tennessee Basketball is ranked after the win at Texas A&M

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Felix Okpara, Tennessee Basketball | Andrew Ferguson, Tennessee Athletics
Felix Okpara, Tennessee Basketball | Andrew Ferguson, Tennessee Athletics

Tennessee Basketball moved up one spot to No. 5 in both the updated Associated Press Top 25 and the Coaches Poll on Monday, following the 77-69 win at Texas A&M on Saturday.

Tennessee (22-5, 9-5 SEC) goes to LSU (14-13, 3-11) on Tuesday (9 p.m. Eastern Time, SEC Network) and hosts Alabama (22-5, 11-3) on Saturday (4 p.m. ET, ESPN) inside a sold-out Food City Center. 

The Crimson Tide is ranked No. 6 in both polls.

The Vols close the regular-season schedule next week with a trip to Ole Miss on March 5 and Senior Day against South Carolina on March 8 in Knoxville.

Vols ranked No. 5 in NET and KenPom.com ratings

Tennessee remains at No. 5 in the NET, improving its Quad 1 record to 9-5 after the win at Texas A&M. The Vols are 13-0 in Quad 2, 3 and 4 games and are tied for for the second most Quad 1 wins in the country. Auburn has 14 and Oregon and Alabama also have nine. 

Auburn is No. 1 in the NET, ahead of Duke, Houston and Florida.

Tennessee is also No. 5 in the KenPom.com ratings, ranked No. 1 in adjusted defensive efficiency, giving up 87.6 points per 100 possessions, and No. 29 in adjusted offensive efficiency, scoring 119.2 points per 100 possessions.

Duke is ahead of Auburn for the No. 1 overall spot in KenPom. Auburn is No. 2, Houston is NO. 3 and Florida is No. 4.

Where Tennessee is stands in ESPN Bracketology

Tennessee remains the top No. 2 seed and the No. 5 overall seed in NCAA Tournament projections from Joe Lunardi. Sunday’s updated ESPN Bracketology kept the Vols as the No. 2 seed in the East Region, where Duke was the No. 1 seed (No. 2 overall), Texas Tech (No. 11) was the No. 3 and Michigan (No. 15) was the No. 4.

Auburn remains the No. 1 overall seed and Alabama dropped to the No. 3 overall seed after back-to-back losses at home to Auburn and at Missouri. Florida is the fourth No. 1 seed. 

The other No. 2 seeds behind Tennessee were Houston (No. 6 overall), Iowa State (No. 7) and Michigan State (No. 8). The other No. 3 seeds were Texas A&M (No. 9), Wisconsin (No. 10) and Kentucky (No. 12). The other No. 4 seeds were Purdue (No. 13), Arizona (No. 14) and St. John’s (No. 16).

Lunardi currently projects 13 SEC teams to make the NCAA Tournament, with Vanderbilt entering the ‘Last Four Byes’ category after a home win over Ole Miss. Arkansas is in the ‘Last Four In’ category and Georgia is among the ‘First Four Out’.

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