CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Friday afternoon started rather well for the Tennessee men’s basketball team.
It didn’t take long for things to fall apart, though, and the worst may be yet to come for the Volunteers.
Eighth-seeded Michigan emphatically sent the ninth-seeded Vols into a future filled with questions and uncertainty with a 75-45 whipping in the NCAA tournament’s West Regional at Time Warner Cable Arena.
“This is a very embarrassing feeling, just the way we went out,” said Scotty Hopson, UT’s leading scorer who scored a season-low four points and had three turnovers.
“It was embarrassing.”