Hours after a blowout loss in the SEC Tournament championship to the Auburn Tigers, Selection Sunday revealed that it really did cost Tennessee basketball a No. 1 seed. They fell to a No. 2 seed, their third seeding that high in school history.
Rick Barnes’s team will face the No. 15 seed Colgate Raiders in Columbus, Ohio on Friday. The winner of that game will take on the winner between the No. 10 seed Iowa Hawkeyes and the No. 7 seed Cincinnati Bearcats on Sunday.
The No. 1 seed in the South Region are the Virginia Cavaliers.