Rick Barnes previews Tennessee-Appalachian State

Tennessee plays Appalachian State Tuesday at Thompson-Boling Arena.

On what he’s seen from Appalachian State during scouting:
“They had a really nice win the other night at Charlotte. They’re a really well coached team. I think predominately want to play man-to-man. Even though I mentioned that they have a little three-quarter court press that goes back to a 2-3 zone, which I could see that coming at some point in time. We worked on it today. I think we’ll be better against the zone. It’s also not like we’ve been bad against them. We’ve won two games against two teams that do a pretty good job with their zone defense. I love their offense. They open it up. Sometimes they’ll have a five-out type of spread with a motion offense where they like to play off the elbows. They do some nice scissor actions where they can do some good things. They have two guards that can shoot the ball really well and they’ve got a guy they think they can go through like we do with Fulkerson. Again, they’re a really well coached team and like I said they’re coming off a really nice road win at Charlotte.”

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