PITTSBURGH (AP) – Tennessee coach Bruce Pearl is about to learn whether it was wise to allow his Volunteers to become, well, volunteers.
No. 11 Tennessee (6-0) meets No. 3 Pittsburgh (10-0) on Saturday in an SEC-Big East Invitational matchup of early season unbeatens. The game will be at the Consol Energy Center, not Pitt’s Petersen Events Center, but it will be anything but a neutral site game – not with 16,000 Pitt partisans attending.
For Pitt, it’s a rare game in its home city against a highly ranked team before Big East Conference play begins. For Tennessee, it’s a challenging trip to play an opponent most ranked teams would prefer not to meet until the NCAA tournament. One that Pearl signed up for, even though Tennessee could have played Marquette in Nashville.
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