WATCH: After season of proving the prognosticators wrong, Tennessee basketball says ‘Don’t pick us’
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If you are picking against Tennessee in the upcoming 2018 NCAA Tournament, you are giving the Volunteers exactly what they want.
Rick Barnes and his players were featured in a recent video by The Players’ Tribune asking the doubters to continue to pick against them. They don’t seem to mind after proving so many prognosticators wrong all season long.
Noting how they have the SEC Coach of the Year, SEC Player of the Year (they didn’t mention the team also has the co-SEC Sixth Man of the Year) and the obstacles overcome by the program this season, the Vols appear ready to tackle the challenge the NCAA Tournament is set to provide.
#3 seed Tennessee opens the 2018 NCAA Tournament on Thursday against #14 seed Wright State at 12:40 p.m. ET / 11:40 a.m. CT on truTV.
Here’s the video posted by The Players’ Tribune:
Don’t pick us.
Please and thanks.
– @Vol_Hoops#MarchMadness pic.twitter.com/Wf86xzRSQm— The Players’ Tribune (@PlayersTribune) March 14, 2018
(Video courtesy of The Players’ Tribune)
A graduate of the University of Tennessee, Michael Wayne Bratton oversees the news coverage for Saturday Down South. Michael previously worked for FOX Sports and NFL.com
