Comments on: Tigers & Vols In Tennessee Tussle To Be Top Dog http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/memphis-faces-tennessee-in-1-vs-2-showdown-16220 Celebrity sports gossip since 2001 Sun, 07 Sep 2008 01:40:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: JW Stringer http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/memphis-faces-tennessee-in-1-vs-2-showdown-16220#comment-260 JW Stringer Sat, 23 Feb 2008 20:59:51 +0000 http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/memphis-faces-tennessee-in-1-vs-2-showdown-16220#comment-260 #2 Tennessee at #1 Memphis (ESPN | 9 PM ET) The top-ranked Tigers put their 47-game regular-season home winning streak on the line, currently the longest of any school in the country. Memphis is also the lone unbeaten team in the nation and hopes to prove a team from Conference USA belongs among the very best. “Them. Us. Everybody in the state. It’s an ego game,” Tigers head coach John Calipari said. “That game has been played up to a level that I can’t even begin to tell you.” EDGE: MEMPHIS Tennessee beat Memphis last year 76-58 as an unranked team and has won 6 of the last 8 meetings, covering the last 3. “They beat us fair and square,” Tigers forward Chris Douglas-Roberts said. EDGE: TENNESSEE The lower-ranked team has won 5 of the last 6 meetings between #1 and #2. This is only the 5th time in 38 all-time games between the top teams in which both schools were from the same state. EDGE: TENNESSEE Tennessee is 6-2 ATS in its last 8 games overall. Memphis is 9-4 ATS in its last 13 games against the SEC. JW Stringer http://pregame.com #2 Tennessee at #1 Memphis (ESPN | 9 PM ET)

The top-ranked Tigers put their 47-game regular-season home winning streak on the line, currently the longest of any school in the country. Memphis is also the lone unbeaten team in the nation and hopes to prove a team from Conference USA belongs among the very best. “Them. Us. Everybody in the state. It’s an ego game,” Tigers head coach John Calipari said. “That game has been played up to a level that I can’t even begin to tell you.” EDGE: MEMPHIS

Tennessee beat Memphis last year 76-58 as an unranked team and has won 6 of the last 8 meetings, covering the last 3. “They beat us fair and square,” Tigers forward Chris Douglas-Roberts said. EDGE: TENNESSEE

The lower-ranked team has won 5 of the last 6 meetings between #1 and #2. This is only the 5th time in 38 all-time games between the top teams in which both schools were from the same state. EDGE: TENNESSEE

Tennessee is 6-2 ATS in its last 8 games overall.
Memphis is 9-4 ATS in its last 13 games against the SEC.

JW Stringer
http://pregame.com

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