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It's SEC Basketball Time in Tennessee

Vols at Razorbacks | 3:00 EST Saturday, January 3 | ESPN2

• This will be the first SEC game of the season for both teams.

• Tennessee is 8-2 in the last 10 against the Razorbacks

• UT’s last visit to Fayetteville resulted in the largest margin of victory in series history, a 29-point Vol victory (92-63 on Valentine’s Day in 2024)

• The Vols have won the last three matchups by an average of 23.7 points

• This is the fourth top-25 matchup in the last six meetings between the schools. Before that stretch, UT and Arkansas had never met when both were ranked

• Rick Barnes leads all active coaches with 846 wins (9th all-time) with John Calipari one game behind him at 845 official wins. Calipari has won 887 games “on the court” but 40+ of those are lost to the NCAA COI

• Barnes and Calipari are 13-13 in head-to-head matchups

• UT’s Ja’Kobi Gillespie is four points shy of 1,500 career points

• Arkansas’ Darius Acuff has been named SEC Freshman of the Week each of the last three weeks and is considered the favorite to win SEC Freshman of the Year