NASHVILLE — Eight places separated Tennessee and Arkansas in the Southeastern Conference standings this season.
The gap on the basketball floor between the Volunteers and Razorbacks was much slimmer.
It’ll be the second rubber match of the the season for Tennessee in the Southeastern Conference tournament quarterfinals tonight, when the 10th-seeded Vols face second-seeded Arkansas at Bridgestone Arena.
The team split two meetings, both decided by five points, in January, and the combined score of those two games was 138-138.
“You can look at film and look at stuff that we did well in (those games) and also look at stuff we did bad, but it’s a new season, basically,” Vols forward Derek Reese said after Tennessee came back from 12 points down to beat Vanderbilt 67-61 on Thursday night. “Anything can happen. We’ve still got to come ready to play.”