After a pair of impressive wins in the Players Era men's championship, No. 17 Tennessee makes the trip to upstate New York to meet Syracuse in the ACC/SEC Challenge on Tuesday.

The Volunteers demolished Rutgers and took down No. 3 Houston in their second game in Las Vegas before being knocked off by Kansas 81-76 in the third-place game, losing a 12-point lead in the process.

"The guys that want to learn from this will do it," Tennessee coach Rick Barnes said to the Rocky Top Insider after the loss. "And they'll get better and move forward, but it's not going to get any easier, which is the way it should be.

"But too many scouting report breakdowns, things we had talked about. Again, you can talk about we only had a day, but we've got enough guys that can understand that. But (Kansas) de

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