We definitely prepare really hard for every team and these teams [Pennsylvania and Vanderbilt] are really competitive. Every game we have a target on our backs as the No. 3 team in the nation and everyone gets ready for us, so we have to get ready for everyone else.

I don't want to take anything away from Birmingham-Southern, but they're a very hard team to prepare from in one day. It's hard to get them out of the pace they want to play.

It's not the ideal way you'd like to prepare for a game, but it's that switch -- that competitive juice -- that just turns on and you're ready to go.

Definitely a lot is riding on this game. I think it?s definitely a big game for both teams.

Teams come in and see Tennessee on the jersey and fold. The game is over before it even starts. It's a matter of coming out and giving it everything you've got, and that's what we did.

Mt. Juliet is a great team and they have a great inside and outside game. If they are on, teams have a hard time stopping them. We did a good job as a team. We worked hard and did our best to lock up defensively. What can you say when things don't go your way? We worked hard and no one expected us to get here.