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Tennessee basketball: 5 players for Vols to watch in second weekend of tournament

By Billy Williford

COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA - MARCH 24: Kyle Guy #5 of the Virginia Cavaliers celebrates after defeating the Oklahoma Sooners in the second round game of the 2019 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament at Colonial Life Arena on March 24, 2019 in Columbia, South Carolina. (Photo by Streeter Lecka/Getty Images)
COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA - MARCH 24: Kyle Guy #5 of the Virginia Cavaliers celebrates after defeating the Oklahoma Sooners in the second round game of the 2019 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament at Colonial Life Arena on March 24, 2019 in Columbia, South Carolina. (Photo by Streeter Lecka/Getty Images) /
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HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT – MARCH 23: Carsen Edwards #3 of the Purdue Boilermakers looks on against the Villanova Wildcats in the second half during the second round of the 2019 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament at XL Center on March 23, 2019, in Hartford, Connecticut. (Photo by Rob Carr/Getty Images)
HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT – MARCH 23: Carsen Edwards #3 of the Purdue Boilermakers looks on against the Villanova Wildcats in the second half during the second round of the 2019 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament at XL Center on March 23, 2019, in Hartford, Connecticut. (Photo by Rob Carr/Getty Images) /

No.1 – Carsen Edwards, Purdue Boilermakers

This wouldn’t be a list if I didn’t add Purdue’s guard Carsen Edwards. Did you see what he did to Villanova? The dude can flat out ball.

Edwards scored a season-high 42 points on 9-for-16 from the three-point line. 16 attempts from deep is ridiculous, but making nine of them is even more jaw-dropping.

Edwards is a volume shooter, call him Kobe, but that gets him going.

Here is a crazy stat for you. Three have been 11 games this season where Tennessee attempted 15 or fewer shots from long-range. Edwards shot 16 in one game.

While Edwards is indeed a player to watch for against the Vols on Thursday don’t get frustrated, he is going to get his. I know that is annoying to say, but he will.

In the tournament alone, he’s scored 68 points on 19-for-44 from the floor, including 13-for-28 from the three-point line. And, he hardly misses from the charity stripe. Edwards ranks 86th in the nation with a percentage of 85.2 percent from the line.

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Again, Edwards isn’t the type of player you shut down; he is going to get his. Tennessee just can’t let him get buckets when they matter the most if they want to advance to the Elite Eight.

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