Tennessee basketball coach Cuonzo Martin reacts in this 2014 file photo.KNOXVILLE – Tennessee is dancing.
Just barely, though.
The Volunteers were slotted as one of the last four at-large berths in the NCAA tournament and will play in Dayton on Wednesday against Iowa.
The winner of that game, scheduled to start after 9 p.m. on Wednesday night, will face sixth-seeded Massachusetts in Raleigh on Friday.
It will be Tennessee’s 20th all-time NCAA tournament appearance and 12th since the field expanded to 64 teams in 1985. Cuonzo Martin, who will make his NCAA tournament coaching debut, is just the fifth Tennessee coach to get the program to the NCAA tournament.