After a quick trip home the Volunteers are back on the road this afternoon. Tennessee will head west down I-40 to Nashville to take on the Vanderbilt Commodores at the always tricky Memorial Gymnasium.
Vandy is 14-3 on the year in the first season under new head coach Mark Byington. The ‘Dores are 2-2 in league play so far, dropping games to Mississippi State and Missouri while beating LSU and South Carolina.
“They’re very aggressive,” Rick Barnes said of Vanderbilt. “They create a lot of havoc. A really heavy, heavy gap team that they really go for steals.