KNOXVILLE – Swingman Renaldo Woolridge canned a 3-pointer from the wing during Tennessee’s session with its scout team at Monday’s practice.
“That’s what they do!” barked one of the Volunteers’ assistant coaches.
When the ninth-seeded Volunteers play eighth-seeded Michigan in the first round of the NCAA tournament Friday afternoon in Charlotte, N.C., they’ll face a team that takes and makes plenty of 3-pointers.
“They’re clearly better from 3 than they are from 2,” UT coach Bruce Pearl said Monday. “You’ve got to make sure that the 3-ball is something they don’t get a lot of easy looks at. I thought the scout team did really well. Unfortunately they did too well.
“Michigan’s stuff is hard to guard and different from what we normally see. We’ve not seen anything like this all year long.”