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What will Tennessee have to do to push to the final four in the March Madness Tournament · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Let's finish it up with Tennessee. Uh, you know that's the one SEC
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  team. I mean, it gets Texas, Texas scared to the daylight side
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  of them, but they were able to survive. You've got them with a
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  six percent chance to win the whole thing, a twenty seven percent chance to
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  make the final, four thirteen percent chance to make the national title game.
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  That is good enough for one, two, three, four, fifth on
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  your list. Do you like the matchups moving forward for Tennessee? Do you
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  like their path to still be alive come Sunday afternoon? Yeah? I think
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  Tennessee they've got it all in front of them. And this is a really
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  good team. They've been power rated in my top you know, seven or
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  eight all year. They're currently the fifth best power raaded team still in this
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  tournament by my numbers. The only team in their region I have above them
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  is Perdue And so if you're looking at it, you know, for new
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  is a team that has struggled in March the last few years. I know,
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  I just got done saying the last time they got that monkey off their
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  back and they I believe that that's going to be up in Detroit. So
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  I do expect the for new fans to travel. It's not too far from
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  West Lafayette or from Indiana up to Detroit there. But Tennessee they're an experienced
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  team. They've got really good players. You know, Rick Barnes, it's
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  kind of hard to believe that he's only been to one Final four, and
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  I say only like, that's not good. It's a really hard thing to
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  do. It's a great accomplishment to just make it. But he's been such
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  a high level coach for so many years, both at Texas and at Tennessee.
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  Now I'm surprised that he hasn't been there more because that's the respect I
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  have for him. I do think that Tennessee has a decent chance to make
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  it to the Final four twenty seven percent by my numbers right now, and
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  Tennessee fans have to like to draw they have. I mean, I would
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  even argue, even though Produe's higher power rated in North Carolina, just give
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  him produce struggles in March. If I'm not a one seed, I probably
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  want to be in the bracket that has Purdue as the one seed, just
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  because of those struggles that they've had each the last three years in the tournament.
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  Make sure to find him on x at k Ford Ratings also Kford ratings
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  dot com. Kelly, I appreciate your time as always, we'll chalk up
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  the final four. Next week we'll get back into a little college football and
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  more. I really appreciate you as always. Absolutely, I appreciate it,
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  Jake, and we'll enjoy the games here this weekend.