Tennessee basketball trip to Kansas selected as 'College GameDay' destination

Tennessee basketball won't be alone in traveling to Kansas for its marquee game at Kansas on Jan. 25.

ESPN's "College GameDay" will be there as well. The network selected Allen Fieldhouse as its destination when the Vols face the No. 7 Jayhawks in the Big 12/SEC Challenge. ESPN also is televising the game at 4 p.m. ET.

"GameDay" will begin at 11 a.m. on ESPN with host Rece Davis and analysts Jay Bilas, LaPhonso Ellis and Seth Greenberg. It is the ninth time the show has been to Lawrence, Kansas.

Tennessee was most recently featured on "College GameDay" last season at Kentucky.

The Vols are 4-1 in Big 12/SEC Challenge meetings and have won three in a row.

The other challenge games Saturday are Kansas State at Alabama, TCU at Arkansas, Iowa State at Auburn, Baylor at Florida, Kentucky at Texas Tech, LSU at Texas, Mississippi State at Oklahoma, Missouri at West Virginia and Oklahoma State at Texas A&M.

The Jayhawks beat the Vols 87-81 last season in the NIT Season Tip-Off title game in Brooklyn.

UT's Rick Barnes and KU's Bill Self spent more than a decade coaching against each other for Big 12 supremacy during Barnes’ tenure at Texas.

“I’ve known Rick for awhile,” Self said last November. "I really like him and respect him. I think he’s great at his craft."

Barnes coached the Longhorns from 1998 through 2015, while Self started at Kansas in 2003. Self holds a 16-7 edge in matchups against Barnes, including four wins in Big 12 Tournament title games.

The Vols gained one of the top wins in program history in 2010 when they beat then-No. 1 Kansas at Thompson-Boling Arena.

Scotty Hopson led the Vols with 17 points in the 76-68 win. Walk-on Skylar McBee had the key shot, coolly burying a 3-pointer after Kansas cut UT's lead to 71-68 with 1:12 to play.

UT is 1-3 all-time against Kansas with one of the losses coming at Allen Fieldhouse in 2009.