Tennessee basketball hits the road where they’ll face Missouri in Columbia on Tuesday night.
The Vols have won two straight games and need to make it three to remain in the thick of the SEC Championship race while Missouri is still looking for its first SEC win of the season.
Here’s everything to know ahead of the SEC matchup.
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How to Watch – No. 5 Tennessee (19-6, 9-3 SEC) at Missouri (8-17, 0-12 SEC)
- Start Time: 7 p.m. ET/6 p.m. CT
- Location: Mizzou Arena
- TV: SEC Network. PxP: Tom Hart. CC: Dane Bradshaw
- Online Streaming: Watch ESPN
- Radio (Knoxville): The Vol Network/The Vol Network App
Betting Lines
- Tennessee -12.5 Missouri
- Over/under 146.5
- Tennessee -14 Vanderbilt
- Over/under 146
What Tennessee AC Rod Clark Said About Missouri
On if this Tennessee team still thinks about the two losses to Missouri last season, at Thompson-Boling Arena and in the SEC Tournament
“Talked about it first thing, really before we started. Regardless of the record, I basically said, you know, South Carolina, if you think they came in here and didn’t remember, we beat about 40 two times, you’re crazy because they played like it, you could tell. So for us, regardless of the record, it doesn’t matter. That’s a program that beat up on us two games last year. So we’re not looking at this as a game that we’re going to just skate by. No, that’s not what it is for us. We got to go down there, we want to take care of business. We want to play really well, we want to play really hard. We definitely want to lock into, you know, Sean East and Tamar Bates, who’s playing at a really high level right now. Noah Carter, like those guys — Noah Carter, Nick Honor and Sean East — that were big parts of last year’s team that, like I said, they gave us a good whooping two times. One of them was a buzz beater here. So we remember for sure.”
Probable Starters
Tennessee (via UT Game Notes)
Missouri (via last games starters)
Team Statistics (via Sports Reference)
Tennessee:
Missouri:
Stat Leaders
Tennessee:
Points: Dalton Knecht — 20.1 PPG, 48 FG%, 39.6 3PT%
Rebounds: Jonas Aidoo — 7.5 RPG, 4.9 DRPG, 2.6 ORPG
Assists: Zakai Zeigler — 5.6 APG, 2.2 TOPG, 29.8 MPG
Missouri:
Points: Sean East II — 16 PPG, 52.1 FG%, 46.7 3PT%
Rebounds: Noah Carter — 5.0 RPG, 4 DRPG, 1 ORPG
Assists: Sean East II — 4.2 APG, 2.7 TOPG, 33.5 MPG
Last Five Games
Tennessee:
- 88-53 win versus Vanderbilt
- 92-63 win at Arkansas
- 85-69 loss at Texas A&M
- 88-68 win versus LSU
- 103-92 win at Kentucky
Missouri:
- 79-76 loss at Ole Miss
- 75-51 loss versus Mississippi State
- 79-60 loss versus Texas A&M
- 68-61 loss at Vanderbilt
- 91-84 loss verus Arkansas
Prediction
Tennessee faced the second worst team (by record) in the SEC on Saturday when they hosted Vanderbilt in Knoxville. Now they’ll head on the road to face a Missouri team that’s winless in conference play.
While the Tigers are having a bad season, they defeated Tennessee twice last season and the Vols should be locked in knowing the challenge at hand.
Missouri has struggled badly on the glass and doesn’t have a ton of size inside. I expect Jonas Aidoo to continue his recent hot stretch and the Vols to coast to a victory.
Tennessee 83, Missouri 64