March Tennessee Madness: First day of spring practice and NCAA tournament discussion

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🗓️ 16 March 2026

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

It's a busy week for Tennessee sports: Josh Heupel and the football Vols were on the practice field to start spring ball, the Vols and Lady Vols learned their NCAA tournament draws on Selection Sunday and more.

On this episode, Ben McKee, Patrick Brown and Ryan Callahan discuss the start of spring football practice with a focus on the QBs, what stood out to us in Practice #1 and what Josh Heupel said after practice.

Then Ben and Patrick discussed Tennessee's NCAA tournament draw after Rick Barnes's Vols earned a No. 6 seed in the Midwest Region. Tennessee will play either Miami (Ohio) or SMU in the first round and could face Virginia in the Round of 32. How far do we see the Vols going?

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0:00.0	What I've dedicated my life to is revenge.
0:04.7	A brand new drama based on the best-selling novel.
0:07.5	They think they're better than us?
0:08.5	Who do you think you are?
0:09.8	I'm going to prove to them that they're wrong.
0:11.5	She's punishing me.
0:13.0	You destroyed my family.
0:14.3	I will not rest until I've destroyed yours.
0:17.0	A woman of substance on Channel 4 starts tonight at 9.
0:33.3	Welcome in to the Govals 24-7 podcast.
0:39.6	I'm Ben McKee, and I'm joined by Patrick Brown and Ryan Callahan on this edition of the podcast,
0:44.8	a Monday, March 16th edition of the podcast.
0:51.8	Happy birthday to my now two-year-old, Jalen McKee, or as maybe I should call him Jalen McQueen as Lightning McQueen's biggest fan in the world.
0:55.5	So I can't mention March 16th without giving my little buddy a birthday shout out.
1:00.3	Hope everybody is doing well.
1:02.9	I think Patrick and Ryan are doing well.
1:05.2	They already had to put up with me once today.
1:08.2	This is the second time they have to put up with me, because today is the first day of Tennessee spring practice.
1:14.6	Hard to believe that Josh Heipel's sixth spring is underway.
1:19.3	And boys, there plenty to discuss, which of course, you have to start, I guess, with the quarterback position.
1:29.6	Ryan, Patrick, are you all ready to name a starting quarterback just yet? I'm ready for it to feel like spring again, Ben. I mean, I'm
1:35.5	looking out my window right now and it's leading or whatever it is. No, I'm not ready to name a starter.
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