No. 20 Tennessee sailed through the first three weeks of its schedule. The competition ratchets up a notch at this week's Players Era Men's Championship but the Volunteers are catching Rutgers at an ideal time.

Tennessee is one of the additions to the event as it expands from eight to 18 teams in its second year. The Vols will tip against the Scarlet Knights on Monday morning, local time, in Las Vegas.

The Volunteers (5-0) beat a quintet of mid-majors by an average of 28.2 points, the eighth-best scoring margin nationally as of Sunday morning. They've managed to do so thanks to another stingy Rick Barnes defense that's top-10 in the country in field goal percentage allowed (34.0%).

This was most recently on display Thursday night when the Volunteers rolled past Tennessee State 89-60, as

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