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Tennessee Basketball's home game against Vanderbilt sold out

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Tennessee Basketball | Randy Sartin-Imagn Images
(Randy Sartin-Imagn Images) Dec 31, 2024; Knoxville, Tennessee, USA; Tennessee Volunteers head coach Rick Barnes speaks with his team during the first half against the Norfolk State Spartans at Thompson-Boling Arena at Food City Center.

Tennessee Basketball on Friday announced that Food City Center is sold out for the January 15 home game against Vanderbilt. The game is scheduled for a 1 p.m. Eastern Time start on SEC Network.

It’s the sixth of seven sellouts for the Vols so far this season. Games against Syracuse, Arkansas, Mississippi State, Kentucky and Florida were also sold out. The Alabama game on March 1, the second of the three remaining home games, is also sold out.

Tennessee (19-4, 6-4 SEC) is back on the road at Oklahoma (16-6, 3-6) on Saturday (Noon Eastern Time, ESPN) at the Lloyd Noble Center in Norman. The Vols play four of their next five on the road, going to Kentucky, Texas A&M and LSU, with the home date against Vanderbilt splitting the four road games.

The Vols are coming off three straight home games, bouncing back from the 78-73 loss to Kentucky on January 28 with the 64-44 win over Florida and the 85-81 win over Missouri.

Tennessee sold out season tickets for second straight year

It was announced in August that Tennessee had sold out season-ticket inventory of 14,500 for a second straight season, making it the sixth straight full-capacity season that the Vols have sold 13,000 or more season tickets. 

Tennessee last season played in front of capacity crowds of 21,678 against Illinois, Alabama, LSU and Vanderbilt. Four games were above capacity: Auburn (22,547), Texas A&M (22,322), Kentucky (22,206) and Ole Miss (21,932).

Entering last season, the Vols had finished in the top five in national attendance in the previous four non-COVID-impacted seasons. They’ve been top 20 in attendance for 19 straight years. 

The Vols have played 41 home games in front of crowds of 20,000 or more during the Rick Barnes era.

Tennessee athletics in 2022-23 was the only program to rank in the top 10 in average home attendance for football, men’s basketball and women’s basketball. 

Rick Barnes record at home with Vols: 135-25

The Vols are 135-25 at home under head coach Rick Barnes, with a 66-21 record in SEC games, since 2015. They’re 22-8 against AP Top 25 teams at home and 17-8 against top-20 teams and 14-5 against top-15 teams.

Tennessee has been ranked in the top five nationally in attendance each of the last six full-attendance seasons, dating back to 2018-19. The Vols finished eighth in 207-18. 

Last season four of the six biggest single-game crowds in college basketball were Tennessee home games, against Auburn, Texas A&M, Kentucky and Ole Miss.

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