It’s been five years since Texas fans tired of going to the dance every year and ran Rick Barnes out of town. Now he’s turning Tennessee (5-0) into one of the best programs in the south, while Shake Smart has played in exactly two NCAA Tournament games in his Longhorns’ tenure.
What you’ll hear from talking heads is how much the Volunteers lost from last year’s team. And they did lose a lot. Ken Pomeroy has a stat called “minutes continuity” which measures what percentage of a team’s minutes are played by the same player from last season to this season.