{"id":64311,"date":"2025-11-25T12:50:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T12:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/64311\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T12:50:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T12:50:19","slug":"no-16-tennessee-basketball-vs-no-3-houston-how-to-watch-betting-odds-prediction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/64311\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 16 Tennessee Basketball vs. No. 3 Houston: How to Watch, Betting Odds, Prediction"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\"\"\"\"<\/a>Photo By Andrew Ferguson\/Tennessee Athletics<\/p>\n

Tennessee basketball resumes play at the Players Era Festival on Tuesday night when they face off against Houston. It\u2019s a rematch of last season\u2019s South Regional Final when the Cougars ended Tennessee\u2019s season. The Vols are looking for a small bit of revenge in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s everything to know about the matchup from the broadcast details to the betting odds and much more.<\/p>\n

More From RTI:\u00a0Tennessee Basketball\u2019s Ja\u2019Kobi Gillepie, Nate Ament Flash Star Power Against Rutgers<\/a>
\nHow to Watch \u2014 No. 16 Tennessee (6-0, 0-0 SEC) vs. No. 3 Houston (6-0, 0-0 Big 12)<\/p>\n

Start Time: 6 p.m. ET\/3 p.m. PT
\nLocation: MGM Grand Garden Arena
\nWatch: TNT. PxP: Brandon Gaudin, CC: Robbie Hummell, Sideline: Nabil Karum
\nOnline Streaming:\u00a0Watch TNT Live<\/a>
\nRadio (Knoxville):\u00a0The Vol Network<\/a>\/The Vol Network App
\nVol Network radio crew: PxP: John Wilkerson, CC: Steve Hamer<\/p>\n

Betting Odds<\/p>\n

FanDuel Sportsbook<\/a><\/p>\n

Houston -3.5 Tennessee
\nOver\/under 134.5<\/p>\n

KenPom<\/a><\/p>\n

Houston -2 Tennessee
\nOver\/under 136<\/p>\n

Probable Starters<\/p>\n

Tennessee (via\u00a0UT Game Notes<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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Houston (via last game<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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Where They Land In Rankings<\/p>\n

Tennessee:<\/p>\n

AP Poll: No. 16
\nCoaches Poll: No. 16
\nKenPom: No. 12
\nBart Torvik: No. 11
\nEvanMiya: No. 12<\/p>\n

Houston:<\/p>\n

AP Poll: No. 3
\nCoaches Poll: No. 2
\nKenPom: No. 4
\nBart Torvik: No. 2
\nEvanMiya: No. 3<\/p>\n

Team Stats (via\u00a0KenPom<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Tennessee:<\/p>\n

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Houston:<\/p>\n

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Stat Leaders<\/p>\n

Tennessee:<\/p>\n

Points: Ja\u2019Kobi Gillespie\u00a0 \u2014 19.2 PPG, 46.5 FG%, 40.8 3PT%<\/p>\n

Rebounds: Nate Ament \u2014 7.8 RPG<\/p>\n

Assists: Ja\u2019Kobi Gillespie \u2014 5.7 APG, 3.5 TOPG, 30 MPG<\/p>\n

Houston:<\/p>\n

Points: Emanuel Sharp \u2014 17.7 PPG, 42.9 FG%, 36.4 3PT%<\/p>\n

Rebounds: Chris Cenac \u2014 8.2 RPG<\/p>\n

Assists: Kingston Flemings \u2014 5.3 APG, 2 TOPG, 31.5 MPG<\/p>\n

Last Five Games<\/p>\n

Tennessee:<\/p>\n

85-60 win versus Rutgers (Las Vegas)
\n89-60 win versus Tennessee State
\n91-66 win versus Rice
\n99-66 win versus North Florida
\n95-56 win versus Northern Kentucky<\/p>\n

Houston:<\/p>\n

78-74 win versus Syracuse (Las Vegas) [Overtime]
\n91-45 win versus Rider
\n73-72 win versus Auburn (Birmingham)
\n78-45 win versus Oakland
\n65-48 win versus Towson<\/p>\n

Prediction<\/p>\n

Tennessee got a nice tuneup in its blowout win over Rutgers on Monday but the challenge significantly ramps up against Houston Tuesday night. The Vols learned the hard way last March what happens when you don\u2019t come ready for a physical battle against Houston.<\/p>\n

Rick Barnes built this roster to be better physically. They\u2019re bigger inside and have been elite on the glass early this season\u2014 somewhere Houston gave them fits last season. The Cougars will fully put that to the test.<\/p>\n

The number one stat I\u2019ll be tracking is Tennessee\u2019s turnover rate. Tennessee was a bit better taking care of the basketball against Rutgers but that remains a weakness for this team. Houston will exploit it if Tennessee is not crisp and strong with the ball.<\/p>\n

I do worry about the turnovers but I think Tennessee is ready for the challenge. Houston often doesn\u2019t hit the ground running early in the season and I think the Vols will be ready. Tennessee also got to rest many of its key players against Rutgers while Houston played a hotly contested overtime game later in the afternoon. Tennessee gets it done in Vegas.<\/p>\n

Tennessee 71, Houston 68<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo By Andrew Ferguson\/Tennessee Athletics Tennessee basketball resumes play at the Players Era Festival on Tuesday night when…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,33615,58,57,21398,33616],"class_list":["post-64311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-basketball","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-rick-barnes","tag-tennessee-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}