NEW: Texas, Florida, Duke, Louisville and Tennessee are among the biggest spenders for the 2026 college basketball season, per @PeteNakos📈

Some are expected to enter the $20M range.

Details: https://t.co/XHtZTTS8em https://t.co/waikdjqIl0 pic.twitter.com/gW1HzRit1h

— On3 (@On3) May 6, 2026

Don't hate the player hate the game. This and Bucky might be our best chance at a final four.

sip signed 5 of the top 100 portal players including #9 and #14.

https://247sports.com/season/2026-basketball/transferportaltop/

We are going to the final 8/4 next year. Bucky is great and better coach it's gonna be an awesome 3/4 yr run.

IF UT is going all in will this be the last year for Rick Barnes? 71, having the same issue as his last orange team, he builds up expectations and becomes a victim of his own success again, can't get over the hump.

He definitely has some shot makers on this team. That's been his problem at Tennessee is his teams just can't put the ball in the basket reliably enough and it costs them in the NCAA Tournament.

It's actually pretty wild, this is Tennessee's recent years (going backwards) in defensive rating per Torvik:

13, 3, 3, 1, 3, 4

But offensively...

32, 18, 31, 57, 34, 80