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The 1979–80 Tennessee Volunteers basketball team represented the University of Tennessee as a member of the Southeastern Conference during the 1979–80 college basketball season. Led by second-year head coach Don DeVoe , the team played their home games at the Stokely Athletic Center in Knoxville, Tennessee .
The Volunteers finished with a record of 21–12 (12–6 SEC, 2nd) and, after winning the SEC tournament, received an automatic bid to the 1979 NCAA tournament as the 8 seed in the Mideast region. After an opening round win over Eastern Kentucky , Tennessee was defeated by No. 1 seed Notre Dame .
This tournament marks the first SEC Men’s Basketball Tournament held since the event’s hiatus that started after the 1952 tournament. The Tennessee Volunteers won the tournament championship game, and received the SEC's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament by beating the Kentucky Wildcats in a 75–69 overtime win on March 3, 1979. The ...
The Volunteers play their home games in Thompson–Boling Arena, on a court nicknamed "the Summitt", after former Tennessee Lady Vols basketball coach Pat Summitt. With a current capacity of 21,678 (formerly 24,535), Tennessee has consistently ranked in the top 15 in the nation in terms of volume of attendance, averaging 14,817 (60.39% capacity ...
The Kentucky–Tennessee rivalry is a college sports rivalry between the University of Kentucky Wildcats and the University of Tennessee Volunteers.The passionate rivalry between these two Southeastern Conference (SEC) schools, located about 173 miles (278 km) apart, dates to their first college football game in 1893, and has continued across all sports, with the men's basketball series ...
Tennessee's Christian Moore (1) watches the final batters from the dugout during game one of the NCAA College World Series finals between Tennessee and Texas A&M at Charles Schwab Field in Omaha ...
1979 NAIA World Series; S. 1979 Southeastern 500; T. 1979 Tennessee State Tigers football team; ... 1979–80 Tennessee Volunteers basketball team This page was ...
It gave the Vols a 6-1 lead and wound up being the difference after the Aggies rallied to make the final score 6-5. Tennessee (60-13) held on to win the program's first national championship .