Tennessee has a couple of things in its favor Tuesday night against George Mason.
The No. 17 Volunteers are at home for the first time in three weeks, and they aren’t having to deal with an opposing big man bidding for All-America honors. Tennessee (4-3) is on its first three-game losing streak since the outbreak of the coronavirus, having lost to No. 2 Kansas and Hunter Dickinson, No. 4 Purdue and Zach Edey, and No. 9 North Carolina and Armando Bacot.
“These are the best bigs in the country that we’ve played — three in a row,” Vols junior forward Jonas Aidoo said Monday in a news conference. “We’ve just got to build from that. Confidence is the main thing.
“With confidence you can go anywhere you want to go.”
Which includes the free-throw line.