The fourth-ranked Tennessee men’s basketball squad closes out the regular season Saturday with a home game against South Carolina.
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Tennessee vs. South Carolina preview and odds, weekend schedule of top games
Tennessee (24-6, 11-6 SEC) andSouth Carolina (12-18, 2-15) are scheduled for a 2 p.m. ET tip Saturday at Food City Center in Knoxville. SEC Network has the live telecast.
UT has won seven of its last nine games but is looking to bounce back from Wednesday’s 78-76 loss at Ole Miss.
A win Saturday would lock up a top-four seed and a double-bye into the quarterfinals of next week’s SEC Tournament in Nashville.
South Carolina, meanwhile, has dropped 15 of its last 17 games and will finish last in the 16-team SEC.
UT has won 11 of the last 13 head-to-head games and enters the weekend as a top sportsbook-consensus 15.5-point favorite Saturday with a game total of 128.5 points.
The rest of the weekend men’s college hoops schedule features a number of top-25 matchups and conference showdowns. We highlight the best games of the weekend below, including TV/streaming info and the leading sportsbook-consensus point spreads and game totals where available.
Friday
- No. 18 Purdue at Illinois (-4.5, 158.5), 8 p.m. ET (FOX)
- South Florida at No. 16 Memphis (-12.5, 153.5), 9 p.m. (ESPN2)
Saturday
- No. 6 St. John’s at No. 20 Marquette (-2, 141.5), noon (FOX)
- No. 19 Kentucky at No. 15 Missouri (-5, 170.5), noon (ESPN)
- No. 10 Iowa State (-7, 142) at Kansas State, 1:30 p.m. (CBS)
- South Carolina at No. 4 Tennessee (-15.5, 128.5) , 2 p.m. (SEC Network)
- No. 7 Alabama at No. 1 Auburn (-8.5, 177.5), 2:30 p.m. (ESPN)
- No. 24 Arizona at Kansas (-2.5, 151.5), 4:30 p.m. (ESPN)
- Ole Miss at No. 5 Florida (-11.5, 155.5), 6 p.m. (SEC Network)
- No. 2 Duke (-11.5, 157.5) at North Carolina, 6:30 p.m. (ESPN)
- No. 9 Texas Tech (-9.5, 150.5) at Arizona State, 8 p.m. (ESPNU)
- No. 3 Houston (-4.5, 131) at Baylor, 10 p.m. (ESPN)
Sunday
- No. 17 Michigan at No. 8 Michigan State, noon (CBS)