NCAA Tournament: Tipoff time, TV info announced for No. 4 Tennessee vs. No. 5 Duke
ORLANDO — No. 4 Tennessee will face No. 5 Duke on Saturday in the second round of the NCAA Tournament’s East Region. Tipoff is set for 2:40 p.m. Eastern Time on CBS. The Vols advanced past Louisiana with a 58-53 win late Thursday night after Duke beat Oral Roberts 74-51.
Tennessee got 12 points from Tyreke Key and 11 more from Jahmai Mashack. Uros Plavsic started and scored nine points and had four rebounds and Olivier Nkamhoua had eight points and five boards. Santiago Vescovi scored only three points after dealing with early foul trouble. Josiah-Jordan James finished with eight points.
Duke got 23 points from Jeremy Roach and 13 points from Dariq Whitehead in the win over Oral Roberts. Thursday’s win was Duke’s 10th straight, including last week’s run to the ACC Tournament championship.
San Diego State will play Furman at 12:10 p.m. ET in the early game in Orlando. Kansas-Arkansas will start at 5:15 p.m. ET o nCBS and Missouri-Princeton will play at 6:10 on TNT. Houston-Auburn in Birmingham is a 7:10 p.m. ET on TBS and Texas will play Penn State at 7:45 p.m. ET on CBS. UCLA will play Northwestern at 8:40 p.m. ET on TNT and Alabama will face Maryland at 9:40 p.m. ET on TBS.
Tennessee as a No. 4 seed in the NCAA Tournament
Tennessee has been a No. 4 seed in the NCAA Tournament three times previously. The Vols in 1981, when the tournament had 48 teams, beat No. 5-seed VCU 58-56 in overtime, then lost to No. 1-seed Virginia 62-48 in the second round.
In 1999, Tennessee beat No. 13 62-52 in the first round, then lost No. 12 Southwest Missouri State 81-51 in the second round. The Vols went to the Sweet Sixteen as a No. 4 seed in 2000, beating No. 13 Louisiana-Lafayette (63-58) in the first round and UConn (65-51) in the second round. No. 8 North Carolina beat Tennessee 74-69 in the round of sixteen.
The Vols in the NCAA Tournament
Tennessee has been to the NCAA Tournament 24 times in program history and has a 23-25 overall record in the tournament. The Vols have been to the Elite Eight once (2010) and the Sweet Sixteen eight times (1967, 1981, 2000, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2014 and 2019). There have been 17 appearances for Tennessee in the round of 32.
Rick Barnes has a 25-26 record in 26 previous trips to the NCAA Tournament, dating back to 1989. He’s taken the Vols to five straight tournaments after missing the postseason in his first two seasons at Tennessee and COVID cancelling the 2020 tournament. Barnes is 3-4 in NCAA Tournament games at Tennessee.
The Vols were a No. 3 seed in 2018, but lost to No. 11 Loyola-Chicago in the second round. Tennessee was a No. 2 seed in 2019, advancing to the Sweet Sixteen before losing to No. 3 Purdue, and was a No. 5 seed in 2021, losing to No. 12 Oregon State in the first round. The Vols were a No. 3 a year ago, losing to No. 11 Michigan in the second round.
