Tennessee the Heavy Favorite Against SEC Doormat Missouri
Tennessee vs Missouri Odds List Volunteers as Road Favorites
Tennessee Looks to Keep Rolling Against SEC Cellar-Dwelling Missouri
Since an upset loss to Texas A&M, Tennessee has picked things up with a pair of convincing wins heading into a road game at Missouri. The Tennessee vs Missouri odds have the Volunteers as a road favorite.
Missouri has won the last two games, including a win in the 2023 SEC tournament. The Volunteers have won their last four games at Missouri.
The college basketball betting lines have Tennessee listed as the 11.5-point favorite with -825 odds to win the game outright. This will be the third time in the last four meetings against Missouri that Tennessee is a double-digit favorite.
When looking at the odds to win March Madness, Tennessee is priced at +1400 to win the national title with Missouri well back at +12500 in the championship odds. Tennessee ranks sixth in the NCAA NET rankings despite a 5-5 record in Quad 1 games. Missouri is 148th in the NCAA NET rankings.
Tennessee (+200) is second only to Alabama in the odds of winning the SEC title.
Tennessee is at No. 5 in both national polls, moving up three spots in the Associated Press poll and four positions in the USA Today coaches poll.
Keep on reading for more on the matchup between Tennessee and Missouri.
Volunteers vs Tigers 
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Records: Volunteers (9-3 in the SEC)/Tigers (0-12 in the SEC)
Location: Mizzou Arena, Columbia, MO
Streaming: SEC Network
Versatility Driving the Volunteers
The last two NCAA basketball scores showed the variety of ways that Tennessee can win games.
Against Arkansas, the Volunteers made just five 3-pointers but outscored Arkansas 21-11 at the foul line and had the 48-22 advantage in points in the paint.
When Tennessee played Vanderbilt, the Volunteers hit 14 3-pointers with Zakai Zeigler and Santiago Vescovi hitting four 3-pointers each.
Tennessee’s top scorer Dalton Knecht has done much of his best work on the road as he is shooting 45.7% on 3-pointers and is putting up 23.9 points so keep that in mind when looking at the Tennessee vs Missouri odds.
Tennessee has covered against the NCAAB picks in four of the last five games.
Conference Woes Continue for the Tigers
Every team in the ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12, and SEC has at least two conference wins with one notable exception.
Missouri is 0-12 in the SEC after failing to hold onto a 10-point lead against Ole Miss in a game featuring 42 fouls and 60 free throw attempts the last time out.
Now comes a tough home game against Tennessee.
Six of Missouri’s eight wins have come at home. However, the Tigers have lost their last two road games by 43 points.
Missouri has allowed 18 3-pointers over the last two NCAAB games and that could play a role in the Tennessee vs Missouri odds.
Missouri has covered in just one of its last six games.
Last Meeting
Kobe Brown and D’Moi Hodge, who are both now in the NBA, combined for 50 points and six assists as Missouri rallied from a three-point halftime deficit to eliminate
Tennessee from the SEC tournament. Tennessee was a 5.5-point favorite in the game.
The game went over the 140.5-point total on a 3-pointer by Missouri’s Nick Honor.
Tennessee vs Missouri Betting Preview
Home-court advantage has been non-existent for Missouri as the Tigers failed to cover in each of its last six home games as well as in the last four games at home versus Tennessee.
The total has gone over in nine of Tennessee’s last 10 games and in four of the Volunteers’ last five games. The total went over in four of Missouri’s last six games with the total set at 147 for this matchup, the highest for a game between the Volunteers and Tigers since 2016.
Tennessee is 18-3 as a favorite this NCAAB season while Missouri is 1-10 as the underdog.
Seven of the Volunteers’ eight road games went over the total.
J.P. Estrella is questionable for Tennessee after missing the last two games.
Guard Curt Lewis is questionable for Missouri while leading rebounder Caleb Grill, forward Trent Pierce, and guard John Tonje are all out for the Tigers.
Tennessee has covered in just three of its eight road games. Missouri is 2-12 against the spread at home.
Missouri is 0-3 against ranked college basketball teams by an average margin of defeat of 15.3 points. The Tigers are 0-3 against the NCAA odds as a home underdog.
All the numbers are in the favor of the Volunteers when it comes to the college basketball picks today and it is hard to pick against Tennessee in this matchup even if Tennessee has covered in just two of its six games as a road favorite.
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