LAS VEGAS — Arguably the biggest game of the first two days at the Players Era Championship was Tuesday’s showdown between No. 17 Tennessee and No. 3 Houston. It was a rematch of last season’s Elite Eight matchup that sent the Cougars to the Final Four. The game served as quite the first real test of the season for a Volunteers team whose schedule up to that point had been soft. But as the game came down to the wire, it became increasingly obvious that only Tennessee was playing for a spot in the event’s championship game Wednesday. And even the Vols’ spot was very much up in the air.
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