Tennessee-Miami (Ohio) NCAA tournament preview and Vols spring football takeaways
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🗓️ 20 March 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
GoVols247's Ben McKee (in Philadelphia) and Patrick Brown (in Knoxville) come together to preview Tennessee's NCAA tournament first-round game against Miami (Ohio) and discuss the first three practices of Tennessee spring football.
We start on the football front having seen three practices (two since our last episode) and talked to Tennessee quarterbacks George MacIntyre, Faizon Brandon and Ryan Staub and both coordinators (Joey Halzle and Jim Knowles). What have we learned so far? What have we seen that stands out?
Then we focus on the Vols getting ready for their last encounter with March Madness. Tennessee faces Miami (Ohio) after the upstart Redhawks shot the lights out in a First Four win against SMU.
What SEC team does Miami remind Tennessee of? What are the keys to the matchup? What are areas of confidence and the causes for concern in the 6-11 matchup in Philly?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome in to the Govals 24-7 podcast. |
| 0:13.5 | I am Ben-Miki, and I am joined by Patrick Brown on this Friday, March 20th edition of the podcast. |
| 0:20.8 | Happy NCAA tournament opening weekend. We are going |
| 0:25.5 | to talk about Tennessee's first weekend in the NCAA tournament in the second segment of this |
| 0:33.1 | podcast. Tennessee plays later today, later this afternoon against Miami, Ohio at 4.25 p.m. Eastern on TBS, Tennessee looking to advance to the second round of the tournament for the fifth consecutive year. |
| 0:46.0 | They would play Virginia or Wright State if they were able to do so. |
| 0:50.5 | But first, we're going to talk a little spring practice because a lot has happened since we last spoke here on the podcast. |
| 0:57.1 | We had day two and day three of spring practice take place. |
| 1:02.2 | The quarterback spoke. |
| 1:03.5 | Joey Hawley spoke. |
| 1:05.2 | Jim Knowles. |
| 1:06.2 | He met with the media on Thursday. |
| 1:08.6 | There's a lot that's been going on. |
| 1:10.6 | A lot of freshmen spoke as well. |
| 1:14.1 | Patrick, it's been a pretty, pretty busy week. |
| 1:17.4 | Are you ready to name a starting quarterback? |
| 1:20.9 | I am not. |
| 1:23.0 | I dare you. |
| 1:23.6 | First of all, that's a nice backdrop you got there in Philadelphia. |
| 1:27.1 | My question to you being in Philadelphia, I have three questions. |
| 1:29.9 | Have you had any Philly cheese steaks yet? |
| 1:32.3 | Have you seen Joe and Bede? |
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