College basketball success in late March can be the ultimate, because it often results to a trip to the NCAA tournament’s Final Four.
There is nothing wrong with significant early March success as well.
Tennessee has already made this month meaningful by winning its first outright Southeastern Conference championship in 16 years. The No. 4 Volunteers achieved that feat with Wednesday night’s 66-59 win at No. 17 South Carolina, improving to 24-6 overall and two games clear of their closest competitors with their 14-3 league record.
“This means a lot. We just beat our league,” Vols fifth-year senior guard and Northern Colorado transfer Dalton Knecht told reporters after his 26-point performance in Columbia. “We’ve got to go out and do it again at the SEC tourney, so we know we’ve still got another job to get done.
“We’ve got to go out and win the SEC tourney, and then we’ve got the big one.”