BRUTAL: Tennessee MISSES Nate Ament, falls to Vanderbilt and DROPS Double-Bye in SEC Tournament

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🗓️ 8 March 2026

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Tennessee basketball dropped the final game of the regular season on Saturday, losing to Vanderbilt 86-82 on Senior Day. Nate Ament continues to miss time, but Rick Barnes expects him back this week in the SEC Tournament. The Vols will be a No. 5 Seed in Nashville, but who will they play? Tennessee Basketball drops a line in ESPN Bracketology, according to Joe Lunardi. How can the Vols get back on track as March begins?

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0:00.0	Too little, too late.
0:01.6	Tennessee took a while to wake up, fell behind early in the first half,
0:05.1	and a strong second half wasn't enough as Vanderbilt got Tennessee in Knoxville.
0:15.4	You are locked on balls, your daily podcast on the Tennessee Volunteers,
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0:23.7	team every day hey good sunday morning everybody welcome in to lock tom balls your number one spot for
0:29.2	tennessee football news and entertainment weekday mornings when you wake up free and available
0:32.9	wherever you get your podcast today's episode is presented by the great people over at Mazda. Mazda puts the drive into every detail, wins to find the moment, putting in the work that defines you. Stay tuned for the highlights in this week's moving the game four. There's more to a Mazda because there's more to you. I'm your host, Eric Kane. Appreciate you guys for being here and being a part of us. Lockdown Falls, the number one sports podcast and network available. Everydayers could not do the show without you. If you want to join the Everydayer Club, you guys know it $5 a month. Check it all out. Add free audio version of the show, access to the lockdown merch store and so much more, lockdownvalls.supercast.com. Tennessee Falls to Vanderbilt by a final score of 8682. Tennessee no longer in play for a number four seat.
1:13.2	In fact, it will be the number five seed in Nashville for the SEC tournament.
1:17.4	Tennessee will play Thursday the second game of the early session.
1:20.7	It will play the winner of the 12th, the 12th 13 matchup, whether it's the winner of Mississippi
1:26.7	State and or the winner of Mississippi State
1:28.9	against Oklahoma or Auburn. So again, we'll talk more about that here coming up later on
1:33.9	the show. Tennessee Falls aligned in ESPN Bracketology. We'll tell you where that is. Native Mint,
1:39.0	is he going to play in Nashville? How did Tennessee fall to Vanderbilt? All that more coming up here
1:43.2	in the next, though, we'll call it 15 minutes or so.
1:46.0	You look at what Tennessee did in this basketball game.
1:49.3	And, you know, again, Tennessee shot 32% from the field.
1:55.6	32% from the field in the first half.
1:58.8	9 of 28 made baskets.
2:01.7	Nine of 28.
2:02.9	In the second half, Tennessee shot 52% from the field.
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