No. 4 Tennessee against No. 2 Florida: game information, constellations, notes

Nashville – Tennessee will play on Sunday for his second SEC tournament title in four years.

The 4-seed vols hit their ticket for the final after they hit 1 seeds Auburn70-65 in the Bridgestone Arena on Saturday and defeated the Tiger in the second meeting between the two teams this season.

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Tennessee (27-6) stand in the way and his sixth tournament crown is 2-seed Florida (29-4), a team that played the Vols twice in the regular season and both meetings.

The Gators won the first in Gainesville for 30 in January. Tennessee returned the last month and Florida in a 20-point triumph without beaten Zakai Zeigler And Igor Milicic Jr. in Knoxville.

The Gators have increased last month and defeated both Auburn and Alabama on the street to position the fourth seed No. 1 in the NCAA tournament.

Florida beat in Nashville Missouri And Alabamascore most points in a second tournament game in his 104-82 dismantling of the Crimson Tide in the semi-finals on Saturday.

In a suitable finish in the tournament of the best league in College basketball in 2025 and on Sunday the grand finale will compete with the patented defense of the Vols, which suffocated Texas and Auburn in back-to-back games against the productive offensive of the Gator, which is addressed by his stars with stars Walter Clayton Jr.Present Will Richard And Alijah Martin.

It was Tennesses defense who got the best of Florida's offense in the last meeting between the two teams. The VOLs held the gators at 24% of the shootout and a season low 44 points.

Jahmai Mashack Make a master class into this, disturb Florida past and create sales that Tennessee paid out at the other end. The Vols will do the same on Saturday with a trophy on the line.

You need to know the following about the match.

Who: 4-seed Tennessee (27-6) against 1-seed Florida (29-4)

When: Sunday, March 16 | 1 p.m. et

Where: Bridgestone Arena | Nashville

TV: ESPN (Dan Shulman, Play-by-Play; Jay Bilas, Analyst; Jess Sims, Reporter)

Radio: Volnetzwerk (Bob Kesling, Play-by-Play; Bert Bertelkamp, ​​Analyst)

Series: 143. Meeting of all time (Tennessee Leads, 82-60)

Kenpom projection: Florida 73, Tennessee 70

Points per game

Florida 84.8

Tennessee 74.8

Field target percentage

Florida 47.3%

Tennessee 45.6%

Three-point percentage

Florida 35.3%

Tennessee 34.3%

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Templates

Florida 16.0

Tennessee 15.8

Rebound

Florida 42.1

Tennessee 37.1

Block

Tennessee 5.1

Florida 4.8

– Another day, another meeting of two teams that were among the top 10 in the offensive and defensive efficiency. Tennessee is third in the adapted defensive efficiency and enables 100 possessions per opponent, while Florida took third place in the adapted offensive efficiency and achieved 127.9 points per 100 possessions. The gators are also seventh in defensive efficiency.

– Tennessee and Florida have given each other their worst losses of the regular season. The Gators never followed up in a 73-43 victory. The Vols made only four shots in the first half and were out of the field at 36 p.m. after 21.4%. Short -handed Tennessee returned the favor less than a month later and held Florida to shoot 24.5% and pulled away with a second half of the year.

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-Tennessee and Florida meet for the first time in the second tournament championship game. The two teams last played in the tournament in 2021, with the Vols win in the quarter-finals 78-66. The Gators make their second tournament final appearance after they lost to Auburn in the title last season.

-Tene nessee is 1-4 in the tournament games in the Sec tournament in the state of Tennessee of all time. The Vols are 0-2 in Nashville and 1-2 in Knoxville. Her last championship triumph in Tennessee was a 29-25 decision about Alabama in the alumni high school on March 2, 1936.