This week, FanHouse is taking an early look at the top teams heading into 2008 with a BlogPoll decided on by our college hoops bloggers. To help with the team capsules, we've brought in some of the top fan bloggers around the internets to give us insights on their teams.Today, we have enlisted RBK of the BruceBall Blog to break down the Tennessee Volunteers.
The Tennessee Vols are coming off of back-to-back Sweet Sixteen appearances under Coach Bruce Pearl, and last season's 31 wins were tops in the program's history. Tennessee fans were disappointed in the finish, hoping that the 2007-2008 Volunteers would be the first ever to break through to the Elite Eight. It was not meant to be, and this year's Vols appear to be in somewhat of a transition mode after the loss of three senior guards including the SEC's all-time three-point shot leader, Chris Lofton.
Jeff Goodman of Fox Sports is
College basketball coaches are a weird bunch. They are control freaks who are media savvy and live in an isolated world of hoopdom. But what if they weren't coaching? What would they do? Who would they be?
Usually when your team wins 31 games, spends time as the top-ranked team in the country and makes the Sweet 16, you've got a pretty reliable hand on the tiller. The Tennessee Volunteers, then, are quite an unusual team. They accomplished all of that without a steady point guard.
We've all seen it. We've all mocked them. We've all watched a college basketball game and wondered how a coach can take an expensive suit and sweat all over it.

