Preview: Tennessee vs. Texas A&M Showdown & Key Players

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00:00It's going to be, you know, early tomorrow. It's like the first big game of the day in college basketball against a tough team.

00:06I think that kid Ziegler's a badass. He's coming off a really impressive performance against Vanderbilt.

00:12They come into your building and it's going to be a hell of a game.

00:16What are you going to have to do against a team that plays great defense and that has veterans that can put it in the hole?

00:22So you make a great point. I think when we talk about Rick Barnes teams, we focus so much on the offense.

00:27This is the best defensive team in the SEC. They've got great defense because they've got length.

00:32I'm with you. I think Ziegler is absolutely the engine that makes them run, whether he is penetrating or he can hit from the outside.

00:40There's just got a lot of lengths, don't they, as well with Milicic and Chaz Lanier is one of the great scorers in this league.

00:48The Aggies have to trust that defense. Scott, what's interesting is you think you have a mismatch with the Aggies on defense,

00:54but bigs will guard guards. So they will switch and you're thinking you have a mismatch.

00:59But the Henry Coleman, the thirds and the Anderson Garcia's and the Solomon Washington's, they can guard those guards.

01:06It's not as much of a mismatch as you think. But if Ziegler is penetrating and not just scoring, but when he penetrates,

01:14look, he leads the conference with nearly eight assists a game and gets everybody else involved.

01:20That becomes a huge problem. And you can't Tennessee. If Tennessee gets A&M in rotation on defense,

01:28they're going to get every shot they want. And what Rick Barnes does so well on offense is watch off the ball.

01:34They have so much movement off the ball, all the screens that they do on the weak side.

01:39That's why they're so difficult to defend. Back to the offense. Can the offense for Texas A&M set up their defense?

01:46What I mean by that, make Tennessee take it out of the hoop. Take those predictable shots. Go win the battle rebounds.

01:53That's always the key. If the Aggies can win that rebounding battle, they give themselves a chance in every game.

01:58You beat him the last two times you played him in College Station. You played them. Then he got Vandy at home.

02:03Then you go to Florida on March 1st. Then you go to Neville on March 4th against Auburn.

02:08That's hell on Earth, that schedule. Just worry about tomorrow or you'll get a headache, a migraine looking at that schedule.