KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – The Tennessee men's basketball team (15-6, 5-3), riding a three-game winning streak, is set to continue the 2025-26 slate Tuesday, as it hosts the Ole Miss Rebels (11-10, 3-5) at Food City Center. Tip-off is set for 7:00 p.m. ET.
The Volunteers' 79 wins over Ole Miss are their sixth-most versus any foe, trailing only Vanderbilt (132), Georgia (101), Mississippi State (91), Auburn (83) and Florida (82).
Tennessee is 9-2 in its last 11 games against Ole Miss, dating to 2018. The Volunteers went 1-6 in the prior seven matchups before that, from 2012-17.
Rick Barnes and Chris Beard are both former head coaches at Texas. Barnes went 402-180 (.691) across 17 seasons and Beard was 29-13 (.690) over two campaigns.
Senior guard A.J. Storr leads Ole Miss in scoring at 14.0 ppg.
After going 0-of-5 from 3-point range as a freshman, Bishop Boswell is 17-of-28 this year. That 60.7 percent 3-point clip is the second-best nationally among players with 20-plus attempts.
Nate Ament has scored 17-plus points in each of UT's last six outings, with 22-plus in three of them. He is averaging a team-best 21.2 ppg in that span, while shooting 37.5 percent from deep and 80.0 percent at the stripe.