of tennessee have followed their club to a top ten ranking. they have moved up to number nine. the boilter make oefrs purdue, they pumped up to number six. the sec and the big ten. volunteers, boilermakers for the championship. this is how they got here. tennessee, a real hard fought win late last night. 57-5. that was over depaul. meanwhile, purdue, slow start over st. joseph's. here you have it, two top-ten teams looking for a championship. larry mclaughlin and larry conley with you. >> it's the full court pressure purdue has to handle. for purdue it's get into the half court defense and make eight tough on tennessee to get the ball inside. >> let's take a look at what happened with tennessee in their ball game last night. a couple of their veterans had to step up big. >> tyler smith got his don mostly on the inside. i talked about bench. skiel er mcbee was good. chism has the ability to shoot the three-point shot. on the other side, purdue, johnson has been stellar. two double-doubles here at paradise jam. he will be the leader on this purdue boilermaker team. he has to play well tonight. against a very good tennessee squad. >> so there you have it, two top-ten teams in the country. purdue-tennessee. college basketball tonight, the championship of the paradise champ. the vols, boilermakers. starting lineups, opening tips coming up. it's no surprise that the coach was about energy and intensity. what he wanted his guys to understand about this game is they had to move the ball quickly around the perimeter. they needed to take kramer out of his position. i talked to coach kate di kaed former coach from purdue. >> dan: you can see on the base faiss of both sides, purdue and tennessee, larry, a little bit of anxiousness, a little nervousness, especially watching some of the purdue kids. >> larry: you know, you and i talked about this in the three days we've been down here watching these two teams already. i'm most impressed with their benches. bruce pearl and i had a conversation. we were talking to matt painter last night. they really go down to their eighth, ninth, tenth player on the bench. they don't drop a whole lot when they go down to get those guys. for purdue, most of those guys are freshmen. >> dan: let's meet the head coaches as well. smith, chism, mace, prince and hobson. who stands out for you? >> larry: i think chism and smith are two guys we highlighted at the top of the show. i think they're the two guys they really have to depend on. >> dan: bruce pearl, the head coach of the volunteers is inside that huddle. and he has 46 sec wins over the last four seasons. most in the conference over that period. he's had three sweet 16 appearances in the last five years. let's meet the boilermakers of pursue. and it's robby hummel and johnson and grant and kramer and etwaun moore. >> larry: etwan moore is really key. jajuan johnson down on the inside. but the emotional leader is chris kramer. he's tough on defense and makes it really hard on guys who have got the ball. this purdue team is very solid in their half court defense. the three guys i just mentioned own offense early on, i think moore is the key. >> we asked matt painter last night after the game about recruiting. he said it's real simple pip'm a guy from indiana. he's from money see, indiana. he says we try to seal off the border and make sure we get those kids. look up and down the roster and all of a sudden they're on the cusp of being a top five team. primary kids from the state of indiana. >>. >> larry: he's got one from outside the state that we didn't mention, it's keaton grant. matt said we don't feel very confident that we're going to get him back this year. that's a tremendous loss. but the depth of this lineup will make up for lewis jackson. >> dan: they're so active, long at the guard position. you see what they did last season. tennessee, 21-13. sec tournament, they lost in the final to mississippi state. the tip is controlled by the boil ir makers. they're in the white. tennessee in the orange. >> larry: man-to-man defense by tennessee. >> dan: kramer fired it over to hummel, a little bit long on that shot. knocked out of bounds and tennessee basketball. >> larry: struggling with his shot down here in the islands. haven't played as well as i've seen him play in the past. i saw him play a number of times on tv last year. but this is a guy that purdue needs almost every night out. >> dan: fans wanted a travel. they don't get it. no good. rebound by keaton grant. heads-up play, alley-oop, oh! >> larry: lost the trigger right at the end. over to tyler smith. hopson right side to maze, terrific in the turnover ratio a year ago. down to seven on the shot clock. hopson with it. spinning from the left elbow, blocked. and that was keaton grant. in all the way. lays it up. partially blocked. the putback is no gool d good a and a foul. >> larry: how tough is it going to be to get a shot tonight? i got to tell you, i talked about this in the open of the show, in the very few minutes that we started in this game. we'll give you some indication of how good the defense is on both of these clubs. grant was a terrific play right there. and a better one on either end. johnson gets the free throws. both of these clubs, long, lean and very good on defense. >> dan: johnson had his sixth career double-double in a win over south dakota in this tournament. that wound up being tighter of a game than he would have liked. johnson second. is good. one of two from the free-throw line. >> as i indicated already, two double-doubles here at paradise jam. jajuan johnson. all over maze out front. >> dan: hopson couldn't finish it. >> larry: hopson gets the pressure on the wing. that's how you release it. >> dan: johnson inside. and a travel on jajuan johnson. >> dan: how about the pace? a little different than game one. that's going to go against johnson. he was trying to guard chism. >> larry: it's hard to talk about matchups. you have different varieties of defenses. everybody helping so much, almost impossible to really focus on matchups but there's some pretty good ones here right now. >> chism with the left hand. >> larry: chism is one of the most underrated players in the southeastern conference. >> dan: no good. pulled away by tennessee. rebound to bobby maze. >> larry: purdue does d a good job getting back quickly. . >> dan: maze for three. >> larry: maze has been sharing time at the point guard position. right now he wants to reassert himself out there. getting a lot of minutes recently. >> dan: moore with it. he'll go to the corner. a lot of time to double there. grant for three, that's no good. he wanted a foul. the other way pushing it, smith, oh, goodness! you better get out of the way. >> i thi . >> larry: i think they're going to have a conversation about this dunk. watch it again. tyler smith. acceleration to second gear. oh, my. he just took it and went straight to the hole. wow. >> dan: brings tennessee fans up to their feet. hummel for three, no. >> larry: jajuan johnson is playing as well as anybody in the early part of this season. >> dan: maze pulls up. tips pip. how ability the intenout the in championship team? >> larry: we expect to see the kind of plays we just witnessed from tyler smith all night long. some kind of dunk, wasn't it? >> dan: the best i've seen all year. the best one yet. johnson with his putback. no call. it's 7-3. we talked to matt painter after the game last night. he said undoubtedly. a fantastic test for our kids, because we're going to see maybe the best athletes all year long for tennessee. >> larry: i think with the experience tennessee has, i would have to make them co-favorites. >> experience, such a key. and kentucky is loaded. young kids, three up. and that's no good. here comes purdue. kramer with the basketball. this would be a foul against the volunteers and bruce pearl can't believe it. >> larry: how about kramer? usually when he has the basketball something good happens for purdue. now watch this, you think that big body right there was going to slow him down? no way. brian williams takes it. and he's got the blocking foul. i love kramer's play. he's the emotional leader of the purdue squad. >> dan: there's talk -- he's a senior, he would come back to purdue and play next year play football. >> larry: he's not an offensive threat. and he's really not a great shooter on the outside. most of what he gets done is handling the football. >> dan: and we'll have a substitution in for the boilermakers. ryan smith, the soft moore from toledo, ohio. you're watching the paradise jam from the u.s. virgin islands. university of the virgin isla s islands. larry conley, dan mclaughlin, samantha steele with you. number nine versus number six. smith lost it. hum met's got it for purdue. he'll push it. his own man ran into it. that's no good. bouncing around. tennessee has it. thought about the alley-oop. pulls up, that's no good. hummel, another rebound. that's his third tonight. end to end action, hum met thought about the shot, he'll take it in, a lit floater. >> larry: nice move. struggles with his outside perimeter shooting. works inside. he's been very good. >> dan: offensive foul against tennessee. i believe they gave that to smith. what a start here at the u.s. virgin islands in the paradise jam. tennessee, purdue, two top ten teams right before thanksgiving. little treat for you folks. 7-7. boss: ah! thank goodness you're back. gecko: what's going on, sir? 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(hissing noise, gulping) gecko: aw, he ate all my mints. anncr: geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. >> dan: we've seen good defense on both sides. >> larry: we talked about the fact that both clubs are going to have difficult ty getting shots to the basket. >> dan: larry, you talked about it, matt painter says i'm going to play my young players. he's got a couple of those kids out there on the floor right now. i want to see what i've got, he said. e'twaun moore feeds it to the wing. this is d.j. byrd, he's a freshman . >> larry: their coach believes in them. >> larry: the young man i was talking about, sharing play iin time with bobby maze. he needed to give relief out front for maze. so after a lead of 7-1 for tennessee, a little run here by the boilermakers. >> larry: kelsey barlow with a high shot off the block. i think it's pretty good tonight that you do have that good defense. the way they're playing, you can get a lot of fatigue with five or six minutes to go. >> dan: bruce pearl telling us, he likes his bench. he feels he has a deep bench. in doing the game last night, you say this team, you go nine, ten team. it's a different story. byrd is fighting the freshman with the volunteers. kenny hall, he is also the freshman out of stone mountain, georgia. >> larry: both coaches went to their berj early. >> dan: sure did. >> dan: painter, truly one of the great young coaches. th >> da g oi ns mixed up with grant. goins with the basketball here. tough shot, and he's fouled. act r and that could go against bar lou. >> larry: going down the lane you have to have a little bit of help. bar lou t barlow trying to keep up with him. >> dan: bruce pearl said he might be his toughest kid. he had surgery and was back in practice in three weeks. >> larry: young man out of san diego, california. he went to college out there. and bruce pearl said i needed a guard. and i wanted to give some of my guys who play the point guard position a little bit of a breather and he's got a good one. >> dan: and now tennessee aflying the full court pressure. purdue can't get it in. they finally do. they can trap here in the corner. it's kicked out of bounds. off the foot of wayne chism. 10-8, purdue, leading tennessee. >> larry: purdue on ab9-1 run right now. >> dan: >> larry: how about that, maturity by a freshman, get your teammate the ball. purdue fans on their feet, applauding their defense right now. >> dan: shot clock at ten. >> dan: chism with it down to five. >> larry: if you don't knee chism or the tennessee program, it's not unusual for a guy 6'9" to shoot the ball like he does. that's going to be a foul on goins. very adept at shooting the field goal. >> dan: a senior and former walk-on for purdue will check in. >> larry: the senior can drill it from out there. bruce pearl loves for him to shoot that three. sniem number 30 for purdue. smag that matt painter has developed. walk-ones. two years as a walk-on and now earned a scholarship. it paid off yesterday. and a foul against tennessee's bobby maeds. -- maze. he says that's the be amazed hair cut, specifically for the paradise jam. so grant goes to the line. you're watching the paradise jam from the u.s. virgin islands. samantha steele, number 6 against number 9. rebound to hall of the volunteers. >> larry: purdue, trying to get the ball inside. good defense outside on maze. >> dan: mcbee trying to go inside. a foul on johnson. he was matched up with chism. and that's the second on johnson with 12:50 to go here in the first half. that will send him to the bench and that's a huge loss for the boilermakers. >> larry: i talked about one of the keys to the game. the benches are going to play an important role. if these fouls to continue to go the way they're going, they're going to need that bench. >> dan: already 12 fouls combined, committed in this game. smith inside. yes. >> larry: he may be the best player off the bench for tennessee. bruce pearl said if i had six players i could play out there, he would be my other starter. . >> they have hit three threes and a foul away from the basketball. that will go against purdue, the 6'8" fresh mab. >> get a feeling the guys are sending a message, the officials right now? clean it up, let's play the gail. tatum with the long-range shot. solid player. >> dan: we saw it yesterday with tennessee and depaul. a lot of fouls. it was a choppy game. but tennessee, you know, so active defensively. they get after it. a lot of physical play. that's a tral. -- travel. chism went one way then spun back the other and too many steps. >> did a nice job of keeping it away from the basket. wouldn't allow him to make that maneuver down on the baseline that we saw him make a couple of times last night. >> and now cramer brings it up the floor for the boilermakers. hummel, better get a hand up. he can shoot it. >> larry: steps off of that. whether he puts it down on the deck or whether he comes off the screen and shoots it right away. he's not been shooting the ball well in this particular paradise jam. >> hummel's welcome home, man. >> dan: i've known gene for a long, long time when he was the coach at purdue. truly one of the really good basketball coaches you'll ever talk to about the game. i was at practice with him for a little while. having a conversation. he said i'm doing well. i've got my man out there coaching right now, and of course, he was talking about matt painter. and a couple of guys that have gone on to be head coach from gene keady. worked together as players then coaches. chism trying to get through and a foul. i believe that will go against ba de it will .. >> larry: guys trying to make cuts down the lane. everybody taking a swipe. >> dan: so bade with two fouls. johnson at purdue with two foal fouls. johnson is the one who sit zits. bade, throw him out there and let him get his fouls. johnson you have to be careful with. >> larry: i think we're seeing the official real estately getting control of this game. you've got to adjust. you've got to make adjustments when officials are calling a game like this. >> dan: they're giving an indication they're going to call a lot of fouls. particularly when guys are fouling. >> dan: kramer over and back. >> dan: purdue in their first three games they forced over 60 turnovers combined. here's chiz. inside, working against bade with the left hand and count it. that's his third personal. chism goes to the line. >> larry: i want you to think about the array of shots we've seen with from this man already. watch him make this maneuver across the lane and lay it up with his left hand. a finger roll over the rim. wayne chism showing offensive skills early. >> dan: 35th in points all-time in tennessee. second team all preseason. e'twaun moore now for purdue. here's moore in the lane, got it. >> larry: couple of screens that time. one by johnson and one by hum met to g mel to get into that lane. >> dan: chism, they forced it, no good. he wants to push. kramer's got it. for three. taken away by tennessee. chism, alley-oop. they couldn't finish. >> larry: it's a foul. i think it's going to be on grant. watch it again. watch the lob pass right here. here's chism with a throw up. right there. got him on the arm as he was trying to dunk. hopson will go to the line. >> dan: trying to take away not all of the arc, just some of it. his shooting his improved this season. >> larry: he was not a very consistent performer last year, but he has really settled in and really looks like he's poised to have a very good year. very long, lean and athletic. much the way you describe the tennessee players at the opener. >> dan: hummel has to take the time-out and it's a five-point lead for the volunteers. and their fans are on their feet as matt painter will talk it over. >> one of the things tennessee does for you, they get you playing very, very quick on the full court press. you'll get yourself in trouble. got to make sure you've got somebody open coming to the ball and don't get trapped in the corners. they're so long with their arms. they really cover on this full court press really well. something that bruce pearl didn't do much of last year. feel like he had the personnel. this year is a different story. i think this may be his best team. >> dan: let's go back to what they did a year ago. show you the graphic. 21-13, 10-6 in the sec. they lost to oklahoma state in the first round. but one thing they've done that they have never done in their history, they finished ahead of kentucky four straight years. the dominance that kentucky has had in college basketball all these years. >> hummell got the ball into kramer and. moore inside. that's a two. foot was on the line. >> larry: i talked about his offensive ability. that's really a perimeter shooter on the offensive squad. >> standing room only around here. >> dan: yep. under ten on the shot clock. purdue keeps control of it somehow. here they come. barlow and a foul. >> larry: once again a lot of hacking and reaching and grabbing. i was watching as barlow goes down the lane and he just reached down and grabbed him across the arms. >> dan: the freshman from indianapolis to the line. >> dan: some of the freshmen now. it? >> barlow and byrd are the two guys they hope will help them this year. bade also can play. >> dan: 9:30 to go in our first half of play. back off of kramer. they know he's not going to shoot. >> larry: i'm telling you, this guy can really play. you've got to respect him. you've got to go out and play him. >> dan: 9:04 to go. it's a two-point lead. 18 combined fouls in this ball game. ten for purdue and eight for tennessee. 6'3" senior, second in assist to turnover ratio last year in the sec. what he's done in kentucky so far and we forget. you talked about it, larry, the experience of tennessee coming back. >> larry: trapped it himself. >> dan: here's hummel. offseason soldier surgery. really been impressive the way they've come out this year. >> larry: i want to stand up, walk out on the floor and tell these guy, come on. adjust. you know, adjust to what they're calling out there.