Dick Vitale: Tennessee basketball should've been seeded higher in NCAA Tournament

Mikey DiLullo, Knoxville News Sentinel
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Tennessee men's basketball is the No. 3 seed South region of the 2022 NCAA Tournament. However, some people believe the Volunteers should have been seeded higher after they won their first SEC Tournament championship since 1979. Among them was legendary ESPN college basketball analyst Dick Vitale.

After the bracket was reveal, Vitale appeared on ESPN and said — or actually, wrote — that Tennessee's seeding was the most questionable of the tournament field. In his battle against lymphoma, Vitale has been forced to step away from broadcasting during the season. However, he was still part of ESPN's tournament bracket analysis, communicating through a whiteboard and markers.

ESPN’s Dick Vitale poses for photographs with the Rocky Top Rowdies before the start fo the basketball game between Tennessee and Memphis at Thompson-Boling Arena in Knoxville, Tenn., on Saturday, December 14, 2019.
ESPN’s Dick Vitale poses for photographs with the Rocky Top Rowdies before the start fo the basketball game between Tennessee and Memphis at Thompson-Boling Arena in Knoxville, Tenn., on Saturday, December 14, 2019.

"Tennessee should have been #2," Vitale wrote.

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Tennessee will begin the NCAA Tournament on Thursday in Indianapolis, facing off against No. 14 seed Longwood. This is the fourth straight tournament where the Volunteers have made the 64-team field.

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